DAZN has launched a new DTT channel in Italy that will broadcast Serie A football matches, in addition to its existing streaming service. The DAZN Channel is available on channel position 409 and subscribers will be able to watch seven weekly matches broadcast exclusively by the sports streaming specialist. The other three weekly matches (Saturdays […]
Spain’s competition regulator the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has urged Telefónica to modify “certain aspects” of its agreement with streaming service DAZN to comply with competition conditions imposed in April 2015 to avoid an abuse of a dominant market position. In particular, the deal would be breaking some commitments relating […]
ITV had declared it is not interested in acquiring a stake in BT Sport – although it is keen to collaborate with the sports broadcaster. “It’s not the kind of acquisition we would do but collaboration, cooperation with BT Sport absolutely,” Carolyn McCall told reporters after the group’s first-half results. When asked separately about Channel […]
Sky Italia has named Vodafone executive director Andrea Duilio as its new CEO. He will take up the role on September 6th. Duilio, 47, who heads Vodafone’s consumer business unit in Italy, will succeed Maximo Ibarra who stepped down in April and will report to Stephen van Rooyen, CEO of Sky’s UK and European operations. […]
Vodafone has reported a better-than-expected rise in Q1 service revenue as more stores reopened and tourism made a small return. CEO Nick Read said the company was back to service revenue growth in Europe as well as Africa as it reported a 3.3 per cent rise in service revenue. The company said it maintained momentum […]
The NBA has announced a multiyear broadcast partnership expansion with DAZN, the OTT sports subscription service. The deal will provide basketball fans in Austria, Germany and Switzerland with even more access to NBA games and content; The expanded partnership now features NBA TV, the league’s 24-hour-a-day channel featuring live and archive NBA games every week, […]
DAZN will keep on showing the Premier League in Spain until 2025. The online sports platform has renewed their contract with the top-flight English football league for another three years, giving it the rights to 235 matches per season. Its current deal expires after the 2021/22 season. An agreement with Movistar means matches can also […]
Sagemcom has announced the launch of its new IP/DVB-T2 Ultra HD Set-top Box, based on the BCM72180, a 24k DMIPS quad core SoC from Broadcom, with embedded Wi-Fi 6 and support of AV1 decoding, for TIM. The device gives access to the complete entertainment service offer from TIM, with TIMVISION, TIMMUSIC, TIMGAMES and DAZN, as […]
Italian broadcasting group Mediaset is expecting to earn over €100 million in advertising revenues from its football coverage, reports daily Il Sole 24 Ore. During a meeting with journalists, CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi said that the 2020 budget closed “much above expectations”, while the one for 2021 “will be excellent”. He added that “ratings are […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has acquired rights to broadcast the UEFA Women’s Champions League and has been awarded host broadcaster duties for the next four seasons, from 2021-25. As part of this agreement, to further grow the sport, DAZN has also entered into a partnership with YouTube that will make the competition live and […]