Premier single-seater race series Formula 1 has announced a new two-year agreement with Sky Deutschland that will see Sky broadcast all Grand Prix weekends live across satellite, cable, IPTV, web and mobile in Germany and Austria, along with German-language rights in Switzerland, for 2019 and 2020. As a result, subscribers with the Sky Sport Pack […]
Production house Beta Film and Deutsche Telekom are launching a strategic partnership to boost European series on Telekom’s Magenta TV. The long-term agreement will allow the platform to draw from Beta’s catalogue of high-end European programming. First shows include the Italian series Il Cacciatore – The Hunter, the Eastern European Wasteland and the Spanish Cocaine […]
Several new channels are now available on Entertain Me – the à la carte pay-TV package on IPTV in Luxemborg – following a new arrangement between POST Luxembourg and Discovery. Popular channels including Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, DMAX, Discovery Science and TLC jave now been added to the line-up. Customers will be able, more than ever, […]
Canal+ has denied that it plans to revamp its CanalPlay SVoD service, closed in the summer of 2018 after a dramatic loss of subscribers. In response to a story published by financial daily Les Echos, Canal+ chairman and CEO Maxime Saada tweeted January 10th: “There won’t be any revival of CanalPlay, but numerous new ideas […]
Content protection and multiscreen television solutions specialist NAGRA has confirmed that global telco Telefónica has deployed the NAGRA Security Services Platform (SSP) managing the NAGRA Connect client to secure its Movistar IPTV service and 4K Ultra HD content in multiple countries with newest STBs. The announcement marks the first deployment of the NAGRA SSP and […]
The Walt Disney Company and Verizon Communications have agreed a new distribution deal, which has averted a potential blackout of Disney-owned channels on Verizon Fios television systems. Resolution of the dispute on the morning of Sunday December 30th came hours before the New Year’s Eve deadline, without which subscribers would have missed out on college […]
Video solutions pioneer SeaChange International and Russian-based video operator TotalVideo have entered into an agreement to develop a multi-operator, multi-tenant hybrid OTT/DVB/IPTV platform that will enable video and cable providers in Russia to offer multi-screen services to their subscribers. TotalVideo has agreed to develop their new service using SeaChange’s PanoramiC platform, and plans to offer […]
Mirada, a leading provider of cutting-edge products and services for Digital TV Operators and Broadcasters, is delighted to announce a new contract win for its Iris multiscreen solution with Skytel, one of the leading mobile and IPTV service providers in Mongolia, for their subsidiary SkyMedia. Skytel has chosen Mirada’s Iris multiscreen technology to power their […]
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, has unveiled its 2018 Global IP Barometer study, which reveals key insights about the progress of the media industry’s migration to IP. Supported by the input of approximately 750 media industry professionals from around the world, Grass Valley has found strong indications that the industry’s transition to IP is moving […]
Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA and Portuguese multiplay operator NOS are stepping up the fight against broadcast and streaming piracy of Benfica football league matches. NOS, which owns the rights to Benfica games and the distribution rights for the Benfica TV channel, will leverage NAGRA Anti-Piracy Services to fight broadcast piracy – […]