DAZN, the sports streaming platform, and the DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga), have announced a legal victory in their fight against content theft, following a court decision granting a blocking injunction against livetv.sx, the largest illegal sports piracy website in Germany. Active for more than 13 years, livetv.sx is estimated to have accounted for a significant […]
Intellectual property protection and enforcement company IP House and the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalise their partnership in the fight against intellectual property (IP) crime. This MOU represents a meaningful development in collaboration between the UKIPO and the private sector, marking a strategic step forward that […]
South Africa-based MultiChoice (now controlled by Canal+) is facing prosecution from the country’s Competition authorities for alleged collusion with Durban-based set-top box manufacturer Altech UEC. The allegations state the two companies entered into a market-division agreement in February 2014 under which Altech would not compete with MultiChoice in the pay-TV market. This accusation, if proved, […]
UKTV has secured the exclusive rights to the early back catalogue of iconic Australian soap-opera Neighbours, following a content deal with Fremantle. The agreement comprises 420 x 30-minute episodes, taking viewers back to the beginning of the series in 1985 and revisiting the origins of Ramsay Street, where some of its most iconic characters and […]
Amagi, the agentic industry cloud platform for unified broadcast, streaming, and monetisation, has announced the availability of its In-Content Ads offering via Amagi’s ADS PLUS marketplace. This strategic expansion is focused on unlocking incremental impact for advertisers beyond the traditional ad pod, at programmatic scale. The new marketplace offering launches with immediate availability across hundreds […]
Canadian satellite operator Telesat has reported its Q1 numbers, revealing earned revenues of $87 million (€54.4m) – a 25 per cent drop compared with the previous year. Telesat is betting big on its planned low Earth orbiting constellation. The company noted that it has invested a total of approximately C$2.7 billion in the Telesat Lightspeed […]
Karim Sabbagh, MD at Abu Dhabi-based Space42, says that the satellite industry is operating on a different clock than the one it was built on. “A decade ago, missions were launched with the conviction that the decisions behind them would hold for the next twenty years. That assumption is no longer valid.” Sabbagh, who a […]
Documentary producer-distributor BIG Media and independent film studio Insurgence have joined forces to launch more than 60 new YouTube channels encompassing over 2,000 hours of documentary programming culled from BIG Media’s library. This release marks a major milestone in BIG Media’s distribution strategy on YouTube, with new content planned to roll out weekly across all channels. The […]
Warner Bros Discovery UK & Ireland has announced that Mock the Week will be back on TLC with a 5-episode special summer series. Following the return of the show on the new free-to-air TLC at the start of 2026, the additional episodes run through June and July (during the World Cup) will give Mock the Week fans their […]
LaLiga will discontinue its OTT platform, LaLiga+, on June 30th, bringing an end to a seven-year experiment in direct-to-consumer broadcasting. The organisation, led by Javier Tebas, confirmed that the service will cease operations this summer, stating that it has “fulfilled its cycle and purpose within LaLiga’s audiovisual strategy”. In a message addressed to users, LaLiga […]
Parks Associates’ latest streaming video research highlights that Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) would extend the combined company’s reach to 57 per cent of all US internet households. This deal would put it on par with the four streaming giants (Netflix, Google, Prime Video and Disney) which each reach nearly 60 per cent […]
Failed Scottish aerospace business Orbital Express Launch (Orbex) owed more than £73 million when it entered UK bankruptcy administration. The would-be rocket builder had received more than £130 million of grant and equity funding. It focused on sustainable, eco-friendly rocket launches using bio-LPG, establishing a rocket factory in Forres, Scotland. Orbex ceased operations and entered […]
The worst kept secret in broadcasting is out; Matt Brittin becomes BBC DG to wrestle with the myriad challenges facing the corporation. News focuses on his background as a senior European Google executive. He’s also a white, male, British, Oxbridge graduate in his late fifties. Don’t hold your breath for radical moves. He’s also a […]