A French court has ordered five defendants to pay €7 million in damages to French broadcasters beIN Sports, Canal+ and RMC Sport, following the defendants’ convictions for operating illegal sports streaming websites targeting the broadcasters. The multi-million Euro damages award is one of the largest financial rulings issued by a French court following a piracy […]
Vivendi is being sued for €1 billion in damages in an action which alleges that the media giant made false statements during its merger with Seagram and Canal+ some two decades ago. Ninety investors (represented by law firm Soffer Avocats) allege that top executives failed to fully disclose the total extent of Vivendi’s debt. The […]
THEMA, a Canal+ Group company, in collaboration with UAE-based content licensing management company, SAWA Rights Management (SRM), has announced the launch of M6 International channel on du’s TV platform in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – a leading national telco provider part of Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC) PJSC. M6 International has joined the successful du […]
THEMA, a subsidiary of CANAL+ INTERNATIONAL and specialist of the edition and distribution of multicultural channels, is delighted to announce the renewal of its longtime partnership with the leading Arabic media group ROTANA. This agreement grants THEMA the right to distribute the entire Rotana channels portfolio in Europe (10 branded premium channels such as Rotana Cinema, […]
Museum TV HD is now available to TV Com subscribers. The channel dedicated to art is available in the PREMIUM package (EPG position 133) and in the list of the Entertainment channels (EPG position 503). In Russia and CIS, Museum TV HD is distributed by THEMA RUS, a Canal+ International group company. “Museum TV HD […]
A report from investment bank Jefferies says that despite Vivendi’s plan to spin-off its Universal Music Group (UMG) before the end of the year – and to distribute 60 per cent of the new share capital to existing Vivendi shareholders – their overall view is that Vivendi’s current share price is “fully valued”. “Even adopting […]
Euro Media Group (EMG), a global provider of broadcast services and media solutions for live sports, entertainment and events and Sony Professional have been delivering since August 2020 seamless HDR workflow for sports broadcasting. The end-to-end HDR workflow is the culmination of a close collaboration to establish a workflow that is the most efficient possible, […]
Already hard hit by Covid-19, cord-cutting and underlying pressures on TV advertising, sports’ tough time isn’t over yet, according to analysis by Ampere Analysis:
Beyond Rights has closed a number of deals for some of its popular, long-running engineering series, as well as for newer acquisitions in the genre, recently introduced to the market. Series two of Massive Engineering Mistakes (12 x 60), which examines epic fails and builder blunders from construction projects around the globe has been licensed […]
Canal+ has reportedly struck an agreement with the French football league LFP over the 2020-2021 television rights. Reports in French sports newspaper L’Equipe, and business paper Les Echos say that the agreement includes all games from Ligue 1 and eight games from Ligue 2. The price of the rights is reported to be between €650 […]