Eleven Sports challenges UK’s Saturday football blackout
Sports streaming service Eleven Sports is challenging the ban on televising live football games on Saturday afternoons in the UK. … [Read More...]
Newsline
Netflix overtakes Sky Deutschland in customer numbers
Amazon Prime Video and Netflix have further expanded their customer base and are the two largest subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms in Germany. … [Read More...]
Amazon Prime Video takes Russian content
The Russian national broadcaster CTC Media has signed an agreement for the transfer of rights to four of its shows to Amazon Prime Video. … [Read More...]
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IHS Markit: 8K TV shipments to reach more than 400,000 units in 2019
After declining unit-shipment volumes in 2017, global TV shipments are forecast to grow 3.6% year over year in 2018, with additional 1.4% growth in 2019. … [Read More...]
Insight TV launches Brand Solutions and Media Sales Division
MIPCOM 2018 - CANNES. Insight TV has announced the launch of its brand solutions and media sales department. … [Read More...]
Envision: Huawei’s answer to everything as video
ADVERTISING FEATURE. The next 20 years are likely to be a golden age for video, which is rapidly becoming a basic information carrier for the intelligent world. … [Read More...]
Zattoo adds first Sky channel to platform
Sky Sport News HD is now available on Zattoo in Germany, marking the first Sky channel to join the TV streaming platform. … [Read More...]
Public Service Broadcasters call for continued listings prominence
Bosses at the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV and S4C are calling for their position at the top of TV listings guides to be maintained. … [Read More...]
BBC Studios and China’s Tencent partner
MIPCOM 2018 - CANNES. BBC StudiosHAS announced the launch of BBC Earth Tribe, a brand new BBC Earth fan community with China's Tencent. … [Read More...]
M7 continues to supply wilhelm.tel with TV
German cable operator wilhelm.tel has expanded its cooperation with M7 Deutschland, which has existed since 2005, through several agreements. … [Read More...]
Beta Film, Wildside and Zeitsprung on their way to German Moon
MIPCOM 2018 - CANNES. Beta Film, Italy’s Wildside, the German production outlet Zeitsprung and the Isreali writer/creator trio Nadav Schirman, Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen join forces for German Moon. … [Read More...]
Central & East Europe
EBU: Kosovo pubcasting needs independent funding
Delegates attending a two-day event in Pristina organised by an EBU-funded programme have agreed that independent funding is indispensable to public service media (PSM) in Kosovo. … [Read More...]
Balaz Mathe to leave Magyar Telekom
Balazs Mathe, Magyar Telekom’s chief legal and corporate affairs officer and member of its management committee, will leave the company with mutual agreement at the end of the year. … [Read More...]
Poland’s Inea joins global broadband elite
The Polish cable operator Inea has introduced one of the world’s fastest consumer broadband products. … [Read More...]
Channels
Portugal’s Nowo adds SPI channels
SPI International has extended its reach in Portugal by securing carriage for four of its channels on Nowo. … [Read More...]
France mon Amour goes to China
France mon Amour, the first French television channel in China, will be available on China’s Viva platform. … [Read More...]
SPI extends deal with Alchimie
SPI and Alchimie have signed an agreement to increase the carriage of the SPI channels FightBox, DocuBox, FilmBox Art House and FashionBox in two new territories – Belgium and Spain – from October and December respectively. … [Read More...]
Editors’ Choice
ITV launches ITV Studios Netherlands
ITV Studios expands its international production presence with the launch of ITV Studios Netherlands. … [Read More...]
Apple video content will be free to users
Apple’s new digital video service will mix its own original content with subscription services from established TV companies. … [Read More...]
Netflix helps change Polish mentality
Half a million Poles, or around 5% of the population, now pay to receive Netflix. … [Read More...]