Two-thirds of French respond to ‘3 strikes’ Around two-thirds of the French say they would stop downloading copyrighted material from illegal sites if threatened with the penalties included in the country’s Hadopi (‘3 strikes). The finding was part of a survey by Ifop for the recording industry association SNEP, which was interested in knowing how […]
BSkyB is in talks to broadcast a 24-hour rolling news service in Arabic, based in Abu Dhabi, as part of a joint venture with a local private investor, according to reports. Entering a highly competitive market, the satellite channel would launch under the Sky News name and be the UK broadcaster’s first venture into a […]
Ofcom has approved the use of DTT spectrum freed up by DSO for Sky Sports 1 and 2 paving the way for BT to offer the channels as part of BT Vision. Like Virgin, BT will a (more) aggressively priced package reflecting the regulated wholesale prices imposed on Sky in March. Both Virgin and BT […]
ESPN made another move to bolster its broadband network, ESPN3.com, and has struck an exclusive deal with software giant Microsoft that will deliver over 3,500 live events from ESPN3.com, as well as on-demand clips from ESPN.com, to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console. As in other ESPN3.com distribution deals, consumers will need to receive their Internet […]
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 […]