Endeavor Streaming has been selected by SKY Perfect JSAT (SPTV), Japan’s largest satellite pay-TV company, as the official streaming provider for their new streaming service, SPTV Bundesliga Live. The service will be available to SPTV subscribers, as part of their TV bundle, and to non-SPTV subscribers through additional streaming subscription packages. The service is available on […]
Investment bank Berenberg, reporting on Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT), said that while it is still too soon for NENT’s management to communicate subscriber numbers for Poland, given that the launch was a little over a month ago, the tone from management suggested that all is going according to plan. The news emerged following NENT’s Capital […]
Sport1 has launched its new multisports streaming platform Sport1 Extra in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, giving users a variety of flexible offers and price models according to their topic and usage preferences – whether pay-per-view for individual events or league and club passes. One of the highlights at launch is the Women’s Volleyball Bundesliga: From […]
Sky Sports has acquired the exclusive rights to show the Bundesliga in the UK and Ireland for the next four seasons. BT Sport previously held the rights. Sky Sports’ coverage of the top-flight German football league will begin on August 13th with champions FC Bayern München travelling to Borussia Mönchengladbach, before 2012 league winners Borussia […]
The European football market as a whole contracted 13 per cent to €25.2 billion, in 2019/20 (€28.9 billion in 2018/19) as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the first reduction in revenues since the global financial crisis in 2008/09, according to the 30th Annual Review of Football Finance from consultancy firm Deloitte’s Sports Business Group. […]
Premier Sports has secured the rights to the German Cup, the DFB-Pokal, this season with live coverage kicking off on August 6th as Bremer SV host twenty time winner of the competition, Bayern Munich. On August 7th Premier Sports will broadcast current DFB-Pokal champions Borrusia Dortmund when they face Wehen Wiesbaden with kick off at […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) has announced that Viaplay will launch in Poland on August 3rd. The Nordic media company initiated an ambitious international expansion plan to roll out its flagship platform in 10 new markets by the end of 2023. In their last quarterly report, notes Dataxis, they announced having gathered 27,000 new paying viewers […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) and Polish cable TV operator UPC have signed a multi-year distribution deal to bring NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service to UPC’s customers. Viaplay will launch in Poland on August 3rd with a unique combination of Viaplay Originals, international films and series, kids content and premium live sports such as Bundesliga […]
Analysts at Berenberg Bank have praised Nordic Entertainment Group’s (NENT) Q2 results, saying the broadcaster’s subscription numbers “which stole the show”. While the company’s Q2/2021 sales of SEK3,072 million was in line with consensus, it was the subscriber numbers which impressed. Berenberg said: “The international subscriber outlook for 2021 increased to 500,000 from 250,000 as […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) and Polish cable TV operator Vectra have agreed a multi-year distribution deal that makes NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service available to Vectra’s 1.7 million customers. Viaplay will launch in Poland on August 3rd with a combination of Viaplay Originals, international films and series, kids content and premium live sports such […]