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Eurosport adds WTA right to Russian portfolio
Discovery-owned Eurosport has added the exclusive rights for WTA tennis tournaments to its tennis portfolio…
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Plex signs AVOD deal with Warner Bros.
Media library platform Plex has signed a deal with Warner Bros. to add an on-demand…
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ViacomCBS names Phelps as CCO and CMO
The newly formed ViacomCBS has bolstered its board with the appointment of Julia Phelps as…
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Orange may follow Free in dropping Altice France channels
Orange may follow rival French service provider Free in dropping Altice France’s TV channels over…
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Mediaset unveils voting share allocation for MediaForEurope
Mediaset has announced the proportion of special voting shares that will be allocated to its…
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RTL unveils new structure for ‘total video’ age as VOD base grows
RTL CEO Thomas Rabe has claimed that his company is “shaping the future of the…
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HbbTV Associaton publishes new version of conformance test suite
The HbbTV Association’s testing group has published a new version of the HbbTV Conformance Test…
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Red Bee Media signs deal with RTL for MCR services
Media services company Red Bee Media has announced that it will be providing its services…
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Nordic Entertainment secures exclusive women’s football rights
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) has acquired the exclusive Nordic rights to top-division women’s football from…
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Sinclair completes US$10.6bn Fox RSN deal
US broadcast group Sinclair has confirmed the US$10.6 billion capture of 21 regional sports networks…
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BBC unveils plan for Alexa-rivalling Beeb voice assistant
The BBC is developing a voice assistant to rival Amazon’s Alexa, the broadcaster has revealed….
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DAZN adds basketball world cup to growing roster of rights
Sports streamer DAZN has acquired the rights to the FIBA Basketball World Cup in three…
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Mediaset takes MediaForEurope battle with Vivendi to regulator
Mediaset has taken its battle with shareholder Vivendi to Italian markets regulator CONSOB with a…
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Korean FTC approves Pooq and Oksusu merger, paves way for Wavve launch in September
South Korean regulators have approved the merger between OTT platform Pooq and Oksusu to clear…
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Mediaset faces Vivendi and ISS opposition to merger plan
Mediaset is facing shareholder opposition to its plans to merge with its Spanish offshoot and…
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NHK to broadcast Rugby World Cup in 8K
Japanese broadcaster NHK is offering coverage of the upcoming Rugby World Cup in 8K. The…
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Pluto TV launches classic NFL channel
ViacomCBS’s Pluto TV has announced a partnership with the National Football League (NFL) to launch…
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Sky expands channel line-up with new entertainment brands
Sky has announced the addition of two new own-brand channels to its entertainment portfolio: Sky…
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Kwesé Free TV gets green light from South African regulator
South Africa’s media and communications regulator ICASA has confirmed that it is granting a commercial…
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Rai loses last appeal on Sky football decision
Italian public broadcaster Rai has lost a second appeal against an earlier court decision that…
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Portuguese-language trio of channels joins Post Luxembourg line-up
Lusophone TV channels RTP3, Sic Noticias and Globo International have joined Post Luxembourg’s growing TV…
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Viacom to beam German channels directly to cars with Access deal
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is adding a selection of its channels to mobile IT…
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Virgin Media and eir to carry each other’s sports channels
Irish telco eir and Virgin Media have penned a deal that will see an exchange…
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Controversial CEO Worner resigns from Seven West Media
Tim Worner, the CEO of Australian free-to-air broadcaster Seven West Media, has resigned from his…
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ITV signs free to air La Liga deal
British PSB ITV has signed a deal with La Liga to cover the kick off…
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Charter signs Disney deal with potential for streaming distribution
US telco Charter and Disney have signed an expanded distribution deal which opens the door…
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Mediapro names Discovery exec as head of new French football channel
Spanish producer and broadcaster Mediapro has named Discovery France chief Julien Bergeaud as director-general of…
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OTT platforms to benefit from CBS/Viacom merger “in the very near future”
The OTT platforms of ViacomCBS will see a boost from the just-concluded merger “quite soon”,…
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CBS and Viacom confirm merger
The on-again, off-again reunification of CBS and Viacom has finally reached its end, with the…
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Joyn partners aim for winter premium launch and international expansion
Joyn, the German streaming joint venture between ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery, will likely add its premium…