Film / TV

Telefónica has posted Q2 numbers that saw its global pay TV base decline by 6% year-on-year to 8.243 million. The telco did however grow its OTT TV base, up 26% year-on-year to 1.... More

Vice has begun a gradual withdrawal of its television channels across Europe only four years after they were launched, as part of deep cost cuts. Vice is pulling the plug out of it... More

Europe’s football governing body UEFA has issued a tender for a new anti-piracy service provider. The move comes in the wake of an investigation into Saudi-operated pirate operat... More

Comcast-owned pay-TV operator Sky will make its Arts channel free-to-air in the UK, the operator has announced. Starting from September, Sky Arts will launch on free-to-air terrest... More

Warner Bros. is reaching out to international exhibitors about a possible late August launch for Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” If it takes place, it would mean that the twisty... More

HDF Kino, Germany’s largest cinema association, has called for a reduction to the 1.5M social distancing measures in cinemas to ensure that exhibitors “survive” the Covid cri... More

Inexpensive streaming devices have seen a significant growth in sales during the first part of 2020, with the financial uncertainty caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic resul... More

Subscription-based video-on-demand and pay-TV are growing in Germany, but SVOD is growing faster. According to the study, the number of consumers using SVOD services such as Amazon... More

The French government is gearing up to finally repeal laws which have prohibited addressable TV advertising. And French broadcasters, who have been pushing for the change for years... More

The vast majority of broadcasters believe that 5G will replace traditional broadcast distribution as the preferred way to access TV content. According to a new study, 82% of broadc... More

Sky Studios CEO Gary Davey says the production house has been considering how best to manage a return to filming. Davey told a virtual meeting of the Broadcasting Press Guild that ... More

The UAE’s largest telecom operator Etisalat has debuted a new direct-to-consumer (D2C) service, SwitchTV, and looked to Synamedia’s Infinite cloud TV platform — and the compa... More

The number of drive-in cinemas across the U.K. has exploded from three to 40 during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data from media measurement firm Comscore seen by Var... More

Portugal is to restart the migration of its DTT services away from the 700MHz band on August 3rd. The clearance process was suspended in March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.... More

A new campaign is looking to reassure U.K. audiences about the COVID-19 safeguards set to roll out at cinemas across the country. Commissioned by the UK Cinema Association, a pair ... More

Media services specialist Red Bee announced 15th July it’s added new points of presence (POPs) for channel distribution in the UK and France, with three in London and one in Par... More

Amazon Prime customers in Germany now have access to live TV at no additional cost. Amazon has launched a linear TV package with 38 channels from public broadcasters, including 28 ... More

ZOO Digital, provider of cloud-based localisation and digital distribution services for the global entertainment industry, said it was looking to the future with optimism as it del... More

Piracy cost the Italian economy €1.1 billion last year, according to an Ipsos study for the Italian Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual Content (FAPAV). The negative imp... More

From dearth to excess; sports are back on TV with a vengeance to make up for lost time. The English Premier league, for example, is scheduled to cram in 92 matches between its June... More