Paramount Pictures has inked a multi-year content deal for Germany with LOVEFiLM, Europe’s leading online entertainment subscription service. The agreement provides LOVEFiLM subscribers in Germany exclusive streaming access to Paramount titles during the first subscription TV window beginning this autumn. The deal gives LOVEFiLM members in Germany access to Paramount’s upcoming titles before any other […]
Warner Brothers has stopped supplying discs of its latest releases to Blockbuster after the DVD rental chain refused to agree to a 28-day delay between the films going on sale and their availability to rent. The move is the first step taken by Warner Bros to stimulate retail sales and make owning film content more […]
BBC Sport has agreed a three-year extension to its current contract as host broadcaster and UK rights holder, extending its relationship with the All England Lawn Tennis Club to 90 years. The new deal will continue to give audiences access to the tournament across all platforms including TV, radio, online, red button, mobile and tablet. […]
The association representing the majority of teams competing in Grand Prix motor racing – Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) – has hired Evolution Media Capital, a boutique investment bank, to assess the value of its media rights before it negotiates a new funding agreement with CVC, the private equity firm that owns the sport, reports […]
BBC Worldwide has confirmed that all episodes of The Office are now available to purchase and download in the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, France and Germany for the first time on iTunes. The seminal British comedy classic first aired back in 2001, and to date, video viewing of the seminal British comedy classic has […]
DirecTV is threatening to pull the plug on Fox cable networks next week unless a new carriage fee agreement is made. On the DirecTV site, CEO Mike White says that Fox parent News Corp. “has demanded that DirecTV customers pay nearly 40 per cent more for the same channels they already received. If a new […]
Measures to combat illegal accessing and sharing of copyright material online should reflect actual consumer behaviour, rather than impose ‘carrot and stick’ remedies, according to panellists at the Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar on implementing provisions of the the UK’s Digital Economy Act relating to site-blocking and termination of Internet access . Campbell Cowie, Director of […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired the exclusive distribution rights to the National Hockey league (NHL) in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland from Medge Consulting. The rights include, but are not limited to, exclusive live coverage on free-TV, pay-TV and the Internet, until the end of the 2015-16 season. MTG has held rights to NHL […]
YouTube is to offer the first of about 25 professionally aggregated linear channels this January. The gossip is that Google is spending a total of about $150 million with the likes of FremantleMedia, Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine/Reveille group, Warner Bros and others to acquire its programming at a rate of about $5 million per channel – […]
ITV has signed a deal to be the lead UK broadcaster of Uefa Europa League games in a three-year deal that ends Five’s coverage of the event. The broadcaster has struck a deal to air the first- and second-pick Europa League games for the 2012/13 to 2014/15 seasons, with ESPN picking up the rights to […]