Extreme E, the electric off-road racing series, has announced a new broadcast partnership with Australian public broadcaster, SBS. This collaboration will bring Extreme E’s races to a wide Australian audience through both free-to-air and digital platforms. Extreme E X Prix in 2024 will be available to Australian viewers on SBS, one of the country’s primary…

Rhebus TV, the creative force behind the Fancy A Movie channel, has announced its collaboration with FAST Channels TV to introduce their latest venture, a FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channel, to audiences worldwide. Fancy A Movie is the newest addition to the FAST channel lineup, offering a curated selection of the finest and most…

From August 8th, Sky Sports subscribers can watch the new Sky Sports+ dedicated channel and numerous live streams at no extra cost. Hundreds of hours of live sport will be available to stream, with four times as many matches from the EFL and all 72 teams featured over 20 times a season. Sky Sports+ will…

Acunmedya’s acquisition of 50 per cent of the shares in Sport1 has been finalised. Sport1 Medien, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Swiss-based media group Highlight Communications, and the international media and entertainment group Acunmedya, based in Istanbul, had agreed in February this year to acquire 50 per cent of the shares in Sport1 as part…

Independent testing of the everyday mobile experience across the UK has demonstrated EE is the most reliable network for mobile customers, being named the UK’s best network for the 11th year in a row. To provide a definitive picture of the performance of all four of the UK’s mobile network operators – EE, Three, O2…

Kantar, the marketing data and analytics company, has released its latest Entertainment on Demand (EoD) data and analysis on the global video streaming landscape. Kantar’s EoD study uncovers the following behaviours within the global VoD market between Apr to Jun 2024: Ad-supported streaming saw significant growth in Q2 2024, with AVoD increasing by 10 per…

Content studio and digital media network, Little Dot Studios, has announced that its German office has signed a partnership with Studio71, the digital media and entertainment company of ProSiebenSat.1, to launch two channel brands on the free streaming service Joyn. Effective immediately, selected content from Little Dot Studios’ Real Stories Germany and Real Crime Germany channels, will…

The days of flipping through TV channels are long gone as smart TV owners embrace the app-centric viewing environments that deliver more than just TV entertainment. Hub’s Evolution of the TV Set study shows that smart TVs significantly impact how viewers are leaning into streaming services and other entertainment apps as traditional linear pay-TV viewing…

Research from the Sponsorship team at Ampere Analysis reveals how powerful the English Premier League (EPL) is at securing international partner brands. The major European football leagues – as a broad rule – are all relatively successful at attracting international investment, but it is the UK’s Premier League that signs the most sponsorship deals with…

Romanian telco Digi has secured a deal to purchase Portuguese operator Nowo from Spanish firm Lorca JVCO (a joint venture between Orange and MásMóvil) for €150 million. The acquisition, subject to approval by the Competition Authority and the National Communications Authority (Anacom), marks a significant step for Digi as it expands its operations in Portugal.…