ESPN nets Twenty20 rights US sports broadcaster ESPN has paid almost $1 billion for the global rights to the Twenty20 Champions League, the world’s richest cricket ESPN paid $900 million for the commercial rights and a further $75 million for marketing the tournament. A bid for the rights from Abu Dhabi Sports Club was “disqualified […]

ITN Clips on Demand ITN Source has launched Clips on Demand, the world's largest collection of broadcast-quality, ';rights-ready' video clips available for purchase and download online

Bob Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, has called on Internet service providers to ban people who illegally download content. In July, six In July, six of the UK’s biggest ISPs signed a memorandum of understanding with the government, music industry body the BPI and the Motion Picture Association to reduce illegal […]

Market research by industry analyst, Redshift Research, on behalf of Oxygen8 Communications, has found that major UK brands are still failing to monetise their digital The research finds that whilst consumers are interested in accessing more services from organisations on their mobile phones, corporates and media companies are failing to make the most of digital […]

Chellomedia, the content subsidiary of cable operator Liberty Global, is to buy Spektrum, a documentary channel in eastern Europe, in the company's fifth acquisition in Although no figure has been confirmed, Chellomedia is believed to be paying £60m (E74.4m) for Spektrum, which is owned by HBO Central Europe, a joint venture between Home Box Office, […]

Liberty Media Corporation announced that it has authorised its management to proceed with development of a plan to distribute to the holders of Liberty Entertainment The transaction would be effected as the redemption of all outstanding shares of Liberty Entertainment tracking stock in exchange for shares of the subsidiary. The subsidiary, which would become a […]

The alliance is part of a push by TiVo to differentiate itself from digital video recorders offered by cable companies, which have managed to find a bigger audience.

As Sony Pictures presents it, the tentatively named Open Market will involve a neutral third party that will manage device registrations such as TVs, PCs and portable devices, which will then allow users to play their movie rentals or purchases on all their registered devices. The so-called domain provider will let consumers purchase devices freely […]

Dailymotion users are encouraged to share video with their friends, upload it on blogs and spread it across the web. The service is funded by advertising across channel pages with revenue shared between ITN On and Dailymotion. MUZU TV has also signed a content deal with ITN for access to 80,000 hours of content from […]