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BBC extends Wimbledon rights

BBC Sport and The All England Lawn Tennis Club have announced a new agreement that will see the Wimbledon tennis Grand Slam remain free-to-air for audiences across the UK through to and including 2033. The extension continues one of the most enduring partnerships in British broadcasting and sport after the BBC first broadcast Wimbledon in […]

June 25, 2026By Nik Roseveare

Channel 4 launches Enhance ad platform

Channel 4 has announced the launch of Enhance – its new creative, dynamic optimisation platform designed to amplify advertiser’s existing TV creative on Channel 4 streaming. The UK public service broadcaster is partnering with Brightline’s ScreenSense on the new portal for building enhanced CTV ad formats. The platform delivers Clearcast compliant, data-driven, dynamic streaming ads. […]

June 25, 2026

LatAm sports piracy ring disrupted

Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), together with ACE Live Tier member UEFA and with support from Mexican authorities, has disrupted a major PirloTV-linked sports piracy ring primarily targeting audiences across Latin America. The action targeted 44 associated domains ahead of the UEFA Champions League final, reflecting ACE’s broader strategy of using […]

June 25, 2026By Colin Mann

Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland football remains FTA on BBC

The BBC has extended its rights agreement with UEFA for a further two years, ensuring every Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland senior men’s international football match remains live and free-to-air until June 2028. The new agreement will see the BBC broadcast around 60 live matches across the next two years, including this autumn’s UEFA Nations […]

June 25, 2026

All opening EFL fixtures on Sky Sports

Every Championship, League One and League Two team will be featured live on Sky more than 20 times in the 2026/27 season – including the opening weekend of the season. The EFL is at the heart of Sky Sports+ coverage and will see over 1,000 games from 1,891 matches across the EFL, Carabao Cup and […]

June 25, 2026

Proper Music Distribution signs Crunchyroll deal

Proper Music Distribution (PMD), a UK-based independent distributor of physical music, has signed anime brand Crunchyroll to distribute its home entertainment products. PMD will provide B2B fulfilment, invoicing and cash collection services for Crunchyroll’s DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD catalogue across the UK and Ireland, supporting distribution into major retailers including HMV and Amazon. Crunchyroll […]

June 25, 2026

Vodafone Spain joins Satellite Connect Europe

Satellite Connect Europe (SCE) is the name of the joint-venture between AST SpaceMobile and Vodafone Europe. Vodafone’s separate Spanish business has now joined SCE. SCE is a Luxembourg-based company which wants to provide direct-to-device’ (D2D) satellite connectivity, with the aim of enabling direct satellite connection to mobile phones and thus ensuring continuous coverage in remote […]

June 25, 2026By Chris Forrester

Film London shuffles leadership

Film London has announced changes to its senior leadership team, with Helena Mackenzie taking on the new, expanded role Head of Talent and Business Development and Rose Cupit promoted to Head of Artists’ Moving Image. Mackenzie continues to oversee film and TV inward investment into London, running landmark projects such as the Production Finance Market (PFM) […]

June 25, 2026

SES expands maritime deal with Tototheo

Cyprus-based maritime and government connectivity specialist Tototheo Global announced earlier this June that it had signed a partnership agreement with Eutelsat’s OneWeb to help with its customers and their connectivity demands. Now SES has announced an “expanded collaboration” with Tototheo which will see SES FlexMaritime used by Tototheo across global markets. Under the multi-year agreement, […]

June 25, 2026By Chris Forrester

Premier Sports expands Top 14 Final coverage

Premier Sports and FR-UK have announced a new partnership to deliver enhanced coverage of the 2026 Top 14 Final, bringing UK and Irish rugby fans closer to French rugby’s showpiece occasion. The Top 14 Final takes place on June 27th at the Stade de France, with defending champions Toulouse aiming to secure a fourth consecutive […]

June 25, 2026

ATP Media implements Kinetiq watermarking

ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP Tour, has announced a partnership with Kinetiq to implement Teletrax watermarking technology across ATP Tour tournament broadcast feeds, providing new visibility into how live tennis coverage is consumed by broadcasters worldwide. ATP Media produces multiple live feeds during tournaments from ATP Media Studios, its central production facility […]

June 25, 2026

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AST SpaceMobile’s August launch plan

Would-be global cellular satellite provider AST SpaceMobile says its next three satellites – the giant BlueBirds 11, 12 and 13 – will launch during the first half of August. SpaceX will take care of the launch. AST says the mission will continues the momentum established by the successful June 2026 launch of BlueBirds 8, 9, […]

June 25, 2026 Chris Forrester
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Zombies; channels, ads, viewers

In the latest issue of Euromedia we take the temperature of the FAST business. Guess what? It is running very hot. There are hundreds more channels streaming out thousands more hours and carrying tens of thousands of ads. And viewers? Of course there are viewers, but enough to go around? The major platforms, Prime Video, […]

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