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France: DAZN seeks €573m from LFP

Sport streaming platform DAZN, holder of the French Ligue 1 football rights, has demanded €573 million from French professional football league LFP, in a dispute about payment linked to growing piracy. DAZN has decided to sue LFP before the Paris commercial court for “deception on merchandise” and “observed failure”. The streamer, which acquired bought Ligue […]

February 21, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Viasat lawsuit reopens satellite bid

A lawsuit brought by Viasat against the US Space Development Agency (SDA) has opened the possibility of Viasat winning a 10 satellite contract for the US Air Force. The Air Force has agreed to revoke a contract awarded to Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems that’s worth $254 million (€243.3m). Tyvak is a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. The […]

February 20, 2025By Chris Forrester

La Liga blocks illegal streaming platforms

As part of its ongoing commitment to protecting intellectual property rights, Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga has successfully blocked illegal broadcasts from the DazcFutbolios and RBTV77 platforms. These illegal platforms, which allowed the unauthorised broadcasting of football matches, operated via both website and app, utilising Cloudflare’s infrastructure to conceal their criminal activities alongside legitimate […]

February 18, 2025By Colin Mann

Wireless Broadband Alliance releases L4S Implementation Guide

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry body dedicated to driving the seamless and interoperable service experience of Wi-Fi across the global wireless ecosystem, has released a set of  L4S Implementation Guidelines for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable (L4S) throughput over Wi-Fi networks. The guidelines demonstrate how demand for low-latency Wi-Fi applications such as […]

February 18, 2025

DVB publishes accessibility implementation guidelines for DVB-I

DVB has released a new set of guidelines to support the implementation of accessibility measures in DVB-I services. Published as DVB BlueBook A185, these guidelines set out the mechanisms for signalling accessibility services in DVB-I, enabling better support for features such as subtitles, audio description, and sign language interpretation. Future revisions of the document will […]

February 17, 2025

CAP welcomes Singapore site-blocking

The Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) had welcomed the Singapore High Court’s latest order to block another 22 illegal streaming sites and 70 associated domains responsible for the distribution of illegally streamed content in Singapore. The Court’s order follows on from a similar order obtained in Singapore by the Premier League in […]

February 17, 2025By Colin Mann

LFP sues DAZN for fees

French football governing body LFP is suing DAZN over unpaid rights fees for this season. It is reported that DAZN has only paid half of the domestic TV rights money top-flight Ligue 1 clubs were owed this month. The football body called an emergency meeting with the 18 Ligue 1 clubs to discuss the situation […]

February 13, 2025

Paramount carriage fight with YouTube

Paramount seems ready for a carriage battle with YouTube.  “We have made a series of fair offers to continue our long-standing relationship with Google’s YouTube TV, providing subscribers access to the full array of Paramount’s entertainment, news and sports programming,” a spokesperson for Paramount told Deadline. “YouTube TV is attempting to pressure Paramount to agree […]

February 13, 2025

Ofcom sets out 6 GHz spectrum sharing proposals

UK comms regulator Ofcom has published proposals for upper 6 GHz spectrum to be made available and shared between mobile and Wi-Fi services. The UK is spearheading efforts to explore the sharing of upper 6 GHz by these two different technologies, which should bring benefits to the economy, and has also been promoting this approach […]

February 13, 2025By Colin Mann

France: DAZN delays Ligue 1 payments

Sports streaming platform DAZN has threatened not to pay part of the due sums to the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), citing growing Ligue 1 football piracy. The LFP has urged an emergency meeting of its administration board. This week, DAZN is scheduled to pay the fourth contracted instalment in a deal signed in summer […]

February 12, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris