Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera is bidding in an auction for the rights to broadcast live French football matches. Without an appropriate platform to exploit the rights, Al Jazeera is discussing with France Telecom’s Orange TV the possibility of buying Orange’s sports channels or establishing a joint venture with the French broadcaster. Orange is believed to […]
ESPN Star Sports (ESS), Asia’s biggest sports content provider, has secured live and exclusive rights to broadcast the Spanish La Liga for the 2012/13 to 2014/15 seasons, on multiple distribution platforms in 18 markets across Asia. The acquisition allows for exploitation in standard and HD television, as well as via online and mobile platforms. The […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired the exclusive broadcasting rights in Sweden for the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014, and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016. The rights include, but are not limited to, broadcast coverage on free-TV, pay-TV, mobile and the Internet. A minimum of 100 hours of coverage from the […]
Rupert Murdoch has warned that China will encourage piracy and limit opportunities for its own movie market if it does not open up to foreign films. Delivering a speech on ‘Film Dream in the Era of Capital’ at the Shanghai International Film Festival, the News Corp. chairman praised China’s optimism, global aspirations and creativity, saying […]
The music storage portion of Apple’s new iCloud service won’t be fully available to customers in the UK until 2012. UK users will have to wait before they’re able to store their iTunes in the iCloud, because Apple are still involved in negotiations with record companies regarding publishing rights. A spokesperson for the Performing Rights […]
Neelie Kroes, EU commissioner for the Digital Agenda, says that Europe’s copyright rules need a major overhaul as the 27-nation European Union’s market for online film and music lags behind others. She told the CISAC World Copyright Summit in Brussels that in terms of creativity, artists should benefit from the success of their creations. “We […]
NBC has retained the US Olympic television rights, securing a four-games deal through 2020 worth nearly $4.4 billion, seeing off rival bids from ESPN and Fox. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded NBCUniversal (NBCU) the broadcast rights in the US for the XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014) in Sochi, Russia, and the Games of […]
US network Fox has made its pitch for the next set of US Olympic television rights, saying it wants to bid on a four-games package through to 2020. Fox sports chairman David Hill led a six-man delegation that made a two-hour presentation to IOC officials in Lausanne, seeking to secure the first games in the […]
Hard on the heels of the expected announcement later today (Monday 6th June) of an Apple TV service, US media is reporting ‘last minute negotiations’ with content owners in preparation for a full Xbox Live TV service announcement at the E3 games fest in Las Vegas later this week. According to those reports the service […]
Vue Entertainment, one of the UK’s biggest cinema chains, is in talks to allow Hollywood studios to shorten the release window for a limited number of films each year. Vue wants both major and independent to sign up to mid- to long-term agreements of more than three years, during which time each studio will only […]