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Sky keeps 99% of subs during pandemic

In reporting its Q2 numbers, Comcast revealed that Sky retained 99 per cent of its total customers since the Coronavirus pandemic began, and it also retained 95 per cent of Sky Sports subscribers. Despite the strong customer retention, revenue fell 15.5 per cent to $4.08 billion in Comcast’s Sky division in Europe, which encompasses a […]

July 30, 2020

beIN renews Saudi piracy attack

Qatar broadcaster beIN MEDIA has stepped up its attack on what it considers Saudi-led piracy of its copyrighted content, in particular alluding to the potential takeover of English Premier League football club Newcastle United. In a series of tweets, beIN notes that “having spent the past six weeks telling the world how the WTO ruling […]

July 30, 2020By Colin Mann

Twitch launches sports channel

Twitch, the Amazon owned streaming service, has launched a dedicated sports content channel. La Liga football team Real Madrid along with Italian Serie A leaders Juventus, French champions Paris Saint-Germain and London football giants Arsenal will all be expanding their live content on the platform. Initially, Twitch will collaborate with each club on the production of […]

July 23, 2020

beIN attacks ‘nonsensical’ Saudi ban

Saudi Arabia says it has permanently terminated the broadcast licence of beIN Sports, which had been barred from broadcasting in the kingdom since mid-2017, over political disputes with Qatar. Saudi’s General Authority for Competition (GAC) said that it was also fining beIN Sports 10 million riyals (€2.34m) for practices “that restrict competition”. GAC’s decision follows […]

July 15, 2020By Colin Mann

Singapore: StarHub offering National Day Free Preview

StarHub is celebrating Singapore’s 55th birthday with a Free Preview from August 7th to 21st, available to all StarHub Entertainment customers. The National Day Free Preview features over 90 channels which include Astro Warna, BBC Earth, DreamWorks, HBO, Hub VV Drama, Sun TV HD, Zee TV and more. For this long National Day celebration, StarHub […]

July 15, 2020

Premier League TV “back to normal” next season

Televised Premier League matches will return to a normal schedule in the 2020/21 campaign, regardless of whether or not games continue to be played inside empty stadiums. A deal was put in place for all remaining 92 Premier League games to be broadcast live following the league’s return last month, with games being shared between […]

July 14, 2020

Iceland: Siminn plays Premier League on Veset

The Premier League football is back, and Síminn resumed broadcasting its Siminn Sport UHD channel dedicated to Premier League again. For over a year Síminn has been working with Veset Nimbus linear channel management platform operating its linear TV channel and since August 2019 has been broadcasting live Premier League matches in UHD. The UHD broadcast […]

July 13, 2020

Research: ‘Netflix binges mean a €2bn+ electricity bill’

Consumers spend more than £2 billion (€2.23bn) globally to cover the electricity needed to watch Netflix for an average of two hours per day according to research from comparison and switching service Uswitch.com. The research took global costs per KWh and average television energy consumption to calculate the total cost of energy used to watch […]

July 10, 2020

Peacock to show 175+ Premier League games

NBC Sports and Peacock will present more than 175 exclusive Premier League matches on Peacock Premium in the 2020-21 season. Peacock – NBCUniversal’s new streaming service – will launch in the US with free and premium tiers across mobile, web and connected TV devices on July 15th. In total, Peacock Premium will present more than […]

July 10, 2020

Peacock launching with free Premier League

NBC Sports’ full Premier League match and studio coverage on July 15th will be presented free to all fans on Peacock – NBCUniversal’s new streaming service – as part of its national launch celebration in the US that day. Peacock will be the exclusive home for all free NBC Sports’ Premier League coverage featuring four […]

July 9, 2020