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PGA Tour agrees extensive rights deals

Marking the culmination of a long-term strategic planning process designed to best serve fans through traditional broadcast, Over-the-Top streaming (OTT) and emerging technologies, golf’s PGA Tour has revealed its new nine-year domestic media rights portfolio for 2022-2030. “Following a comprehensive process of studying the market, talking to all interested parties and analysing our various options, […]

March 10, 2020

techUK refutes ‘Dirty streaming’ documentary claims

UK technology sector trade body techUK has sought to refute number of claims made in a recent documentary, Dirty Streaming: The Internet’s Big Secret, shown on the BBC’s online-only service BBC Three, suggesting that these, or impressions given by the programme, were misleading, or simply incorrect. The programme took as its premise that with the […]

March 9, 2020By Colin Mann

Tesco claims Xmas ad campaign success

UK supermarket chain Tesco has revealed the results of its Christmas campaign with Channel 4, ITV and Sky Media, suggesting the collaborative approach had strong recall and additional benefits. The collaboration campaign cut through at the most competitive time of year and helped the supermarket achieve its fifth year of Christmas growth. The results announced […]

March 6, 2020

Dowden blasts BBC ‘narrow urban outlook’

UK Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Secretary of State Oliver Dowden has suggested the BBC needs to be closer to, and understand the perspectives of, the whole of the UK and avoid providing a narrow urban outlook. Delivering a keynote speech at the Enders Media and Telecoms Conference setting out why the UK’s creative and […]

March 5, 2020By Colin Mann

Freeview Play on Android TV devices

UK hybrid TV platform Freeview Play is coming to Android TV, thanks to a new agreement between Freeview and Google. Now, even more British viewers will easily find and discover the shows they love. Android TV users will be able to access over 85 live Freeview channels as well as 20,000 hours’ worth of on […]

February 28, 2020

STV Player on Apple TV devices

Scottish broadcaster, STV, has launched its VoD catch-up service – the STV Player – on Apple TV devices, bringing their live channels, on-demand content and STV Player+ features to another new platform. STV Player is the exclusive home of channel 3 content in Scotland. Now, Apple TV users can watch the latest STV dramas, including […]

February 28, 2020

Australia: 85% watch broadcast TV weekly

Initial insights from Virtual Australia (VOZ) – the foundation of Australia’s new Total TV reporting standard – confirm that to fully evaluate the performance of television content, it’s essential to have a national view of how that content is consumed over time and across devices. In the first stage of a phased rollout, OzTAM, Regional […]

February 27, 2020

Torchwood returns to iPlayer

Torchwood, the Bafta award-winning sci-fi series created by Russell T Davies and starring John Barrowman, has returned to the BBC iPlayer. Its first season broke viewing records on BBC Three when it debuted back in 2006. Now all 4 season are available on the streaming platform, giving fans the chance to re-visit the Doctor Who […]

February 21, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Nielsen: Streaming now 20% of US TV watching

A Nielsen report has revealed that US consumers love streamed content and want providers to keep it coming. In the survey conducted for its latest Total Audience Report, Nielsen found that, even as the number of streaming services available continues to grow, 93 per cent of respondents would keep paying for the ones they have […]

February 11, 2020

“Novelty, originality & availability” key to content success

The NoTa Conference, reviewing television trends and consumption around the world, has presented research that catch-up and preview viewing for television programmes can significantly add-up to the ratings. In terms of contents, “emotainment” represents a strong trend to unite the whole family around television. Fiction remains the key genre addressing both real events and supernatural […]

February 7, 2020