Top Stories

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA International has sold the BBC’s new factual-entertainment series Fake or Fortune to broadcasters internationally, as the show gets ready to premiere on BBC One this summer. Fake or Fortune will air in Germany on RTL, Australia on ABC, …

LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the broadcast rights for the 2014 and 2016 Games to ARD and ZDF for Germany, while France Télévisions is to serve as the exclusive French home for the Games through 2020, and …

NEW YORK: Comedy Central is to host a roast of actor Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles on September 10, for a premiere on September 19 at 10 p.m. “Charlie has assured us that nothing will be off limits in this …

LONDON: The number of homes subscribing to an IPTV service will reach 155 million by the end of 2016, according to a report from Digital TV Research, up from 35 million at the end of last year, driven in large part by …

LONDON: Advisers Media International (AMI) and Medge Consulting have secured the international media rights for the National Hockey League (NHL) in a five-year agreement that will see the North American professional sports league expand its distribution across Europe, Africa and …

MANILA: SkyCable, the leading cable provider in the Philippines, has expanded its channel lineup, inking carriage deals with Universal Networks International for E! Entertainment Television and Tiger Gate Entertainment for KIX and Thrill. E! will initially be available to SkyCable’s …

MUNICH: The Dick de Rijk game show You Deserve It has been given a long-running production order from the Turkish free-to-air broadcaster ATV, via a deal with SevenOne International. To be produced by Ay Yapim, the show will launch in …

DUBAI: Broadcast Middle East (BME), a joint venture of News Corporation and MOBY Group, is gearing up to launch a second Farsi-language entertainment network, targeting and families, this week. BME already operates Farsi1, delivering a variety of imported shows dubbed …

BRISTOL: Beginning in 2012, exclusive U.S. coverage of Wimbledon will move from NBC to ESPN, which today announced a 12-year deal for multiplatform rights to the tennis championship. The deal brings to an end NBC’s four-decades-long partnership for Wimbledon rights. A …

LONDON: Inverleigh Media Holdings, the British content marketing firm set up by two former Sportsbrand Media Group executives, has launched its own international distribution arm, DSI | by Inverleigh. DSI has been set up as an outlet to distribute high-quality …