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Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga has confirmed the allocation of its domestic broadcasting rights to Telefónica and DAZN for a combined €5.25 billion, securing coverage of Spain’s top-tier football competition from the 2027/28 season through to 2031/32. The agreement, equivalent to €1.05 billion per campaign, was formalised November 28th…
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Ofcom has published its annual report on the BBC, assessing the corporation’s performance in meeting the needs of viewers and listeners during the period April 2024 to March 2025. The report also includes the findings of Ofcom’s second ‘Periodic Review’ of the BBC. Drawing on extensive audience research, industry data…
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Australia’s federal parliament has passed legislation that will enforce content quotas for major SVoD platforms such as Disney+, Netflix and Prime Video. The national government announced it would roll out such quotas earlier this November, which require streaming services with over 1 million domestic subscribers to spend 10 per cent…
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Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) has carried out the eighth phase of Operação 404 (Operation 404), an action aimed at combating crimes against intellectual property on the Internet. This is the largest international mobilisation in the country, with the participation of Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and the…
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Paramount+ has become an Official Partner of Premier League football club Arsenal. The global partnership will see Arsenal players, club legends and supporters come together to celebrate some of Paramount+’s most popular series such as Yellowstone, Landman and MobLand. Arsenal will also work with Paramount+ on a series of social…
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BBC Sport has secured a new deal to bring football action from La Liga to fans across the UK with a multi-year digital rights agreement for BBC Sport’s social and digital platforms. Starting immediately, audiences will be able to follow the best moments from one of the top-flight Spanish league…
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The past week has seen Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat raise some €1.5 billion overall in fresh money to improve its reserves and to finance investment in the proposed IRIS2 mega-constellation. But while majority shareholders have supported the cash raising exercises, the Rights Issue, raising €670 million, has seemingly upset minority…
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Magic Light Pictures, along with Triggerfish Animation studios, have created new festive idents exclusively for BBC One and BBC iPlayer featuring celebrated characters from the adaptations of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture books that have become the heart of the BBC’s Christmas offer. This year’s animated film, The Scarecrow’s Wedding is celebrated with an…
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Even though some programme approvals are still pending, the European Space Agency (ESA) wrapped up its two day Ministerial meeting in Bremen, Germany, by announcing it had received commitments from its 27 member states which total €22.1 billion for the next three years. The sum is the largest-ever with the…
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Disabled people remain significantly under-represented across TV and radio and data on class representation remains poor, according to an Ofcom study on the make-up of the broadcasting industry workforce. The media regulator’s ninth annual equity, diversity and inclusion in broadcasting report shows that disabled people continue to be significantly underrepresented…
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Channel 4’s ‘digitally supercharged‘ Hollyoaks has continued its ratings momentum, with the channel’s flagship soap achieving a series of audience milestones during its 30th anniversary week. In a standout achievement, the episode broadcast on October 22nd, the Brookside crossover episode, has become Hollyoaks’ best-performing episode for consolidated Individuals viewing (645k) since October…
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BKT United Rugby Championship action returns to Premier Sports screens tonight (November 27th) following a four week international break – with all eight URC games live across the weekend. Plus there’s four live games from France’s Top 14 for UK rugby fans to tune into. To celebrate the return of…
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The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) has announced a long-term agreement with sports marketing agency, IMG, to distribute the international media rights across its women’s football league and men’s domestic cup competitions, through to 2030. The agreement includes all international territories outside the Netherlands. IMG will partner with the KNVB…
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