Avail-TVN, the largest digital media services company in North America, has announced an industry-wide, long-term digital media services deal with entertainment channel, VOD and online service, EPIX. The agreement provides EPIX with the technological capability to access over 48 million VOD households via every service provider in North America, providing a seamless on-ramp to launch […]
A board meeting at Ofcom is set to approve the regulator obliging Sky to cut its wholesale prices on its sports channels. In choreographed weekend interviews BT set the ground claiming it would definitely significantly undercut Sky with its retail price if it gets access to the channels at the kind of prices put forward […]
Sony Pictures Television has signed a VOD deal with Voddler, the Swedish home entertainment service, to make movies from the Hollywood studio available on-demand to users of the on-demand service. The agreement means that Voddler users can immediately access a range of recent and library titles from the Sony Pictures feature film catalogue on a […]
France’s largest commercial broadcaster, TF1, has declined to comment on newspaper reports it had reached a deal to sell some of its football World Cup rights to rivals France Televisions and Canal Plus. TF1 would pay E120 million for the rights in 2010 if it retains them all. But according to French sports daily L’Equipe […]
Channel 4 has been awarded the rights to broadcast 150 hours of TV coverage from the London Paralympic games. Lord Burns, the Channel 4 chairman designate, said: “For Channel 4, the London Paralympic games will be the main event, not a sideshow to the Olympics.” Sky – rather than Channel 4 – was believed to […]
Dish Network and NeuLion, an end-to-end IPTV service provider of live and on-demand programming delivered via broadband, have announced a multi-year partnership to distribute certain Dish Network international channels using NeuLion’s IPTV service. The partnership with NeuLion enhances Dish Network’s international programming offering by providing consumers without access to satellite TV the ability to enjoy […]
Rovi has strengthened its next generation media guide solution for the European market with the inclusion of Internet-based content from 15 individual content providers across Germany, France and the UK. This news follows Rovi's earlier announcement that additional digital content will be available through Rovi's TotalGuide from a number of industry leading content providers in […]
French pay TV operator Canal Plus has secured exclusive broadcasting rights for Italy’s Serie A football championship for the next two seasons. The deal includes all 20 Serie A clubs, all matches, the 38 championship days for each season and all broadcasting formats (TV, internet, mobile, catch-up, podcast). Canal Plus’s football offering already includes the […]
The Time Warner board has approved the acquisition of Indian entertainment channel NDTV Imagine Ltd. for $126.5 million. The purchase from NDTV Networks will be made through Turner Asia Pacific Ventures and will see it gain a 92 per cent stake in Imagine, and includes $50 million to fund the business after the sale has […]
Channel 4 and ISP Talk Talk have signed up to join Project Canvas, with each committing to invest more than £16 million (E17.5m) to get the video-on-demand joint venture up and running. They are the fifth and sixth partners following the BBC, ITV, Channel Five and BT. The venture is now seeking “expressions of interest” […]