Modern Times Group (MTG) will launch a new free-TV sports channel in Sweden on 7 September 2010. The new channel – TV10 – will be made available to Com Hem's 1.65 million TV households, as well as on Viasat's own DTH satellite TV platform, which together represent more than 50 per cemt of Swedish households. […]
UTV foreign language movies are now available for UK audiences on the IPTV platform BT Vision. UTV has a deal with Shemaroo Entertainment UK which has an exclusive content aggregation agreement with BT Vision.
From Colin Mann in London Following months of speculation, British Sky Broadcasting and Virgin Media have confirmed the acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television (VMtv) in a deal worth up to£160 million in cash. The companies have, in parallel, agreed to enter into a number of agreements providing for the carriage of certain Sky […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has announced that Viasat Broadcasting has signed an agreement with Norwegian broadcasting group TV 2 AS to distribute TV 2's three Premier League channels – TV 2 Premier League HD, TV 2 Premier League HD 2 and TV 2 Premier League HD 3 – on its […]
The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has completed its US studio majors portfolio for its VOD service maxdome by concluding a new transactional video-on-demand deal with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Starting in June 2010 with blockbuster movie Avatar, the long-term licence agreement will grant the Group non-exclusive VOD rights to Fox's numerous new releases, as well as […]
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has confirmed that Sony Entertainment Television, its popular general entertainment channel brand, has launched in Estonia via carriage agreements with Elion (IPTV) and Starman (cable and pay DTT). Estonian audiences will be able to select either original language audio or choose to watch programming dubbed into Russian, with both options incorporating […]
Blinkbox has struck deals with All3Media, Eagle Rock, Fireworks International, Shed Media, Target Entertainment and 3DD Entertainment to add a further 600 hours of shows to its service. Binkbox CEO Michael Comish, said the deals signify the company's strength in the video-on-demand sector. “The past two years have seen many notable VOD services either go […]
Virgin Media has launched a new and improved The KARAOKE Channel to its on demand TV platform. Virgin Media's XL TV customers will be able to choose from over 100 karaoke videos, from pop and country to rock and disco, for no extra cost. New videos will be added each month and available to watch […]
Alongside rowing over wholesale pricing of Sky premium programming on its cablenets, Virgin and Sky have managed to drag long running negotiations on the sale of Virgin's TV channels to a conclusion with a deal expected next week. Virgin has been trying to off load its V1, Bravo, Challenge and Living portfolio for a long […]
Research from the Global Web Index has revealed the massive potential for generating revenue from online sports rights. The survey of 16,000 Internet users includes people in many of the countries who will be taking part in the tournament in South Africa including the USA, England, Mexico and South Korea. This year's football World Cup […]