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Premier Sports on Amazon Prime Channels

Premier Sports and Amazon have agreed a distribution deal that will see all five channels under the Premier Sports umbrella made available to residential customers on Prime Video Channels in the UK – Premier Sports 1, Premier Sports 2, LaLigaTV, FreeSports and BoxNation. Amazon Prime members can access all five channels as an add-on subscription […]

December 13, 2021

Orbex starts UK rocket launch site build

Orbex, a private, small satellite launch services provider, has started construction of its first launch platform – the first orbital space launchpad to be built in the UK for more than half a century. Orbex says it has commissioned Motive Offshore Group, a Scottish company specialising in the design and manufacture of marine and lifting […]

December 10, 2021By Chris Forrester

Singular.live, RCS transform SPFL matchday graphics for QTV

Singular.live, a provider of cloud-based technology for live graphic overlays, and Reality Check Systems (RCS), the graphics, control solutions and data integrations company, have announced their collaboration with QTV to enrich the Scottish Professional Football League’s (SPFL) matchday graphics with enhanced live Stats Perform match data. Independent Scottish production house QTV, the SPFL’s outside broadcast […]

November 30, 2021

Sky CEO: “Behaviour change on climate can be driven by TV”

Seventy per cent of people across Europe are willing to change their behaviour to address the climate crisis according to research published by Sky and the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT). Using behavioural science techniques, Sky and BIT set out ten new behavioural science principles to guide broadcasters on helping their viewers to take action. The […]

November 1, 2021

Extreme E welcomes UK Government investment for Scotland race

Extreme E has welcomed the announcement by the UK Government that it intends to invest £1 million in its proposed off-road race on the Outer Hebrides in 2022. The announcement today in the House of Commons follows productive discussions with the UK Government, the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and other key stakeholders over several months. […]

October 27, 2021

UK broadcasters collaborate at COP26

The UK’s key broadcasters are hosting a series of events from COP26 in Glasgow this November. The events will showcase the collaborative work of the broadcasters over the past decade through BAFTA’s albert – the screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability which aims to reduce the environmental impacts of production and empower creatives to produce […]

October 26, 2021

NOW brings Succession storyline to life with football partnership

To celebrate the return of season 3 of Succession, streaming service NOW is bringing a slice of the Roy family’s dysfunctionality to the UK with a Succession-inspired football ‘takeover’ in Edinburgh. In the last season of the hit show, Roman Roy (played by Kieran Culkin) buys the Scottish football club Hearts to impress his father […]

October 18, 2021

BBC reveals coverage plans for COP26

The BBC has announced extensive coverage plans for the UN’s upcoming climate change conference in Glasgow, bringing audiences to the heart of November’s summit with special programming, news and digital coverage. Under the banner of ‘Our Planet Now’, the BBC will bring together its UK and global services to deliver comprehensive coverage of COP26, as […]

October 1, 2021

WWE’s McIntyre addresses crowd at Global Citizen Live 2021

On September 25th, WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre appeared on the Global Citizen Live stage at the Champ Du Mars in Paris alongside British actress and singer Carmen Ejogo. During his time on stage, McIntyre addressed an audience of approximately 20,000 people from all over the world about the upcoming 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) […]

October 1, 2021

Scotland Land Court’s go-ahead for Space Port

Following on from the decision by billionaire Anders Povlsen that he would not further contest the construction of a proposed Space Port on the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland, the Scottish Land Court has now given formal approval to the scheme. The court ruled that it was in the public interest for the development to go […]

September 15, 2021By Chris Forrester