Singapore’s pay-TV operators SingTel and StarHub have secured the broadcast rights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The deal follows months of negotiations by the pay-TV operators. The rights of the event would be the first high profile content that pay-TV operators will air simultaneously following a government regulation that allows pay-TV operators to carry […]
ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile technology, applications and services company, has made an agreement with leading pan-African VAS aggregator, Groupe Digital Afrique (GDA), to deliver World Cup football content – supplied by Goal.com – to 25 countries and up to 45 Mobile Operators across Africa beginning 1st June. The ROK-powered WAP service containing goal alerts […]
France's football league, the LFP, plans to launch its own TV channel president Frédéric Thiriez has confirmed. Thiriez said they were talking with service providers including Numericable, SFR and Orange and also intend to see football on pay DTT. Initially the channel will show League 2 games, but Thiriez said the LFP's ambition was to […]
Yahoo has struck a deal with the Premier League for the UK online highlights for the next three seasons. From the start of next season in August, Yahoo will run a five-minute highlights package of every match on Yahoo.co.uk. Highlights will be available from midnight on Sunday after weekend matches and at midnight the same […]
Three Hong Kong broadcasters have ended a dispute that would have shut out free coverage of the World Cup in the city of 7 million people but the partial solution only airs matches to households with digital decoders. Hong Kong’s World Cup rights holder, the pay-TV broadcaster Cable TV, was at loggerheads with local terrestrial […]
Sony Corporation has signed a deal to bring Major League Baseball's live streaming service to PlayStation3 video game consoles. PlayStation owners will be able to sign up with MLB.TV to watch out-of-market baseball games transmitted over the Internet. It is the latest in a series of digital distribution deals recently announced by sports franchises. Sony […]
Norwegian triple-play operator Altibox has entered into a strategic cooperation with commercial television station TV 2, under which Altibox is helping to finance TV 2’s recent acquisition of broadcast rights for English Premier League games, and will add all TV 2 channels to the line-up for its IPTV service. TV 2 won the rights to […]
US movie channel Epix has it signed a carriage agreement with Dish Network that will give Epix nationwide distribution for the first time, marking a breakthrough in its efforts to reach more viewers. The agreement will make Epix, a joint venture between Lions Gate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), available to 14 million additional […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain's National Competition Commission (CNC) has limited to three years the duration of contracts between TV operators and football teams to broadcast the matches “to guarantee free competition in the market”. The CNC has imposed fines of E150,000, E100,000 and E25,000 on Sogecable, Mediapro and Audiovisual Sport, respectively for […]
The English Premier League is to challenge the decision by media regulator Ofcom to force pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB to sell its sports content to rivals at a reduced rate. The Premier League said it had decided to resist strenuously the ruling which it said would reduce the incentive for all broadcasters to invest in the […]