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21st Century Fox’s new national US sports channel FOX Sports 1 (launching August 17) has secured a 12-year broadcast rights deal to bring major golf to FOX Sports from 2015. The new agreement will see the FOX network and FOX Sports 1 become the principal domestic media partner of the USGA and the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s […]
Posted by Frost Global on Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 10:17 pm
Filed under 21st Century Fox, Latest News and Views, Sport, Television · Tagged 21st Century Fox, British Open, Comcast, Daytona 500, Disney, ESPN, Eurosport, Fox Footy, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports Australia, Golf, NBC, PGA Championship, Setanta, Super Bowl, the Masters, US Open Golf, World Cup, World Series
21st Century Fox’s subscription-TV business STAR India has been awarded the broadcast rights by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympic Games and the Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing next year. While 21st Century Fox’s US business FOX missed out on the last […]
Posted by Frost Global on Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 8:42 pm
Filed under 21st Century Fox, Channel Ten, Latest News and Views, Sport, Television · Tagged 21st Century Fox, Disney, ESPN Star, Fox, Foxtel, International Olympic Committee, IOC, NBC, News Corp, News Corp Australia, Olympic Games, STAR, Ten Network
Foxtel’s proposed merger with Austar took another step in the right direction last week when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions (ACCC) commenced market consultations over Foxtel’s draft undertakings. Foxtel has provided the ACCC with undertakings in order to allay ACCC concerns that a merged company would hamper competition in the IPTV market. Foxtel and Austar, along […]
Posted by Frost Global on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Filed under Austar, Foxtel, IPTV, Latest News and Views, Television · Tagged ACCC, AFL, Austar, Bruce Gordon, Disney, ESPN, Fox Sports, Fox Sports News, Foxtel, Hulu, iiNet, iOS, IPTV, Optus, Optus TV, Playstation, Rod Sims, Select TV, Sky News, XYZ Networks
The English Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that the UK’s Sky Sports has been awarded the rights to continue broadcasting live international and county cricket in the UK exclusively until the end of the 2017 English summer. There is also an option for Sky Sports to extend the deal for an additional two years, which would cover Australia’s […]
Posted by Frost Global on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Filed under Channel Nine, Fox Sports, Latest News and Views, News Corporation, Sport, Television · Tagged ABC, Barbara Slater, Barney Francis, BBC Sport, Channel Five, Cricket, Cricket Australia, Disney, ECB, ESPN, F1, Fox Sports, Grandstand, KFC Big Bash League, MCN, Nine Network, Sky, Sky Sports, Test Match Special
We reported earlier in the year that leading US online catch-up TV service HULU had applied for registration of its trademark in Australia, fuelling speculation of an Australian launch of the service some time in the near future. HULU is jointly owned by US media companies NBC Universal (Comcast), News Corporation & The Walt Disney Company and has around 260 partners […]
Posted by Frost Global on Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 8:34 am
Filed under Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Foxtel, Internet, IPTV, Latest News and Views, Television · Tagged ABC, Apple, BBC iPlayer, Comcast, Disney, Fetch TV, FixPlay, Foxtel, Freeview, Hulu, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, iView, Mark Scott, Microsoft, NBC Universal, News Corporation, NineMSN, Plus7, PS3, Quickflix, SBS, Seven, Sony, T-Box, Telstra, Ten, XBOX 360, Yahoo!, Youview
The digital content distribution market in Australia is hopefully about to become a lot more interesting. According to a report by Asher Moses in Fairfax Newspapers, the US online catch-up TV service Hulu is preparing to launch in Australia with or without the support of Seven, Nine and Ten. This is good news for content owners […]
Posted by Frost Global on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Filed under Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Digital Piracy, Foxtel, Internet, IPTV, Latest News and Views, Television · Tagged Ashes Moses, ATMOSS, Australian Government, BBC, Channel Five, Channel Four, digital piracy, Disney, Fairfax, Federal Court, Foxtel, Freeview, High Court, Hulu, iiNet, IP Australia, iPad, iPhone, ITV, iView, Kim Dalton, Kim Williams, Modern Family, NBC Universal, Netflix, News Corporation, Nine, NineMSN, Playstation 3, Plus7, Seven, Sphere Analysis, Ten, the Age, Youview
Yesterday’s deal between Hybrid TV and Disney Media Distribution confirmed that the next decade is the decade of choice for the consumer. The agreement, Disney’s first foray into a Video on Demand in the Southern Hemisphere, will lift Hybrid TV’s CASPA On-Demand offering to over 200 programs and 2000 hours of TV viewing on-demand. CASPA […]
Posted by Frost Global on Friday, April 2, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Filed under Channel Seven, Latest News and Views, Television, TIVO · Tagged ABC, CASPA On-Demand, catch-up TV, Disney, Foxtel, Hybrid TV, Optus, SBS, Seven Network, Telstra, Ten, TIVO