Starting this season, Sky Sports will air over 100 live NBA games per season in the UK and Ireland. The deal follows NBCUniversal – which, like Sky, is owned by Comcast – acquiring extensive rights across North America to the top-flight US basketball league in 2024. Live coverage on Sky Sports is underway with a […]
The Thailand Ministry of Justice’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has shut down INWIPTV, one of the country’s most notorious illegal IPTV services, with support from antipiracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and Thailand-based ACE member True Visions. Operating since 2012, INWIPTV (formerly FWIPTV) charged users a subscription price of 300 Thai […]
ESPN’s direct-to-consumer service and Fox One, Fox Corporation’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, have partnered to offer fans even more flexibility, giving them the option to subscribe to both services together for $39.99 (€34.13) per month. This new bundle brings two services under one subscription, giving users access ESPN or Fox One content directly through its respective […]
Pierre Lionnet, Research & Managing Director at ESD Eurospace, says that Russia is planning to launch 900 satellites into low Earth orbit and to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink. The system, called Rassvet (or perhaps Rassviett) already has six craft in orbit. Lionnet says the satellites are built by a newcomer in the sector, Byuro 1440 […]
Bell Canada has announced it is launching a direct-to-cell satellite service in 2026 – offering customers video, voice, text and broadband data -through a partnership with Texas-based AST SpaceMobile. It’s the latest effort by the Canadian company to provide connectivity to the country’s most rural and challenging geographies, as global space companies race to sign […]
Singapore-based ontent creators Empire of Arkadia (EOA) and Mocha Chai Laboratories (MCL) have partnered with Japan’s public media organisation NHK and production house TV Man Union (TVU) in creating Lost and Found – an adventure drama series inspired by real events, targeting Gen Z audiences around the world. Shot in both Japanese and English, on […]
TiVo, a wholly owned subsidiary of entertainment technology company Xperi, has released its Q2 2025 Video Trends Report detailing a fragmented but vibrant entertainment landscape, where video remains king for consumers in the US and Canada. Most notably, the data shows that video service bundles continue to gain traction, indicating that consumers value the ability […]
Research from Digital i has revealed that the share of viewing time to US content in other countries has decreased by 7 per cent on Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video over the past five years. Between Q1 2020 and Q2 2025, the percentage of combined viewing time to content made in the US on these […]
Channel 4 has reported that September 30th was its biggest streaming day on record with 6.9 million views. Driven by a mix of reality, factual, drama and documentaries, the figure surpasses Channel 4’s previous all-time high of 6.4 million in October 2024. More than 4.5 million views were driven in total by Married At First […]
AB InBev’s brands — including the likes of Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois — will soon be advertised on Netflix following a global deal with the brewing giant. Ampere’s latest analysis shows that Netflix currently holds a tiny share of the ad contracts in this lucrative sector, a space historically dominated by Hulu and Warner […]
Blue Ant Media, the streamer, production studio and rights-management business, has acquired MagellanTV, a digital streaming company that delivers factual content to consumers across the globe, for $12 million (€10.2bn). Founded in 2018 by Greg Diefenbach and Thomas Lucas, veterans of National Geographic, PBS and Discovery, MagellanTV operates an SVoD service and a portfolio of […]
Two massive AST SpaceMobile (AST) satellites will take place shortly. The first called BlueBird 6 (also known as FM1) will be on its way to India for a launch. The second, BlueBird 7 (aka FM2) will be launched by SpaceX and will be delivered to Cape Canaveral during October. But these two AST satellites are […]
There’s no moral in this story because, of course, it is about television. For as long as it has been around there have been moral panics about TV, as in ‘does what it puts on screen erode the moral fibre of a nation?’ As the word panic implies, the answer is, generally, no. Nowadays even […]