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LONDON: Content Media Corporation has inked an exclusive first-look pact with producers Deadpan Pictures.

WARSAW: SPI International/FilmBox’s premium HD movie channel is rolling out in the Czech Republic and Slovakia today.

LONDON: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented its TV awards, with Wolf Hall scoring two wins.

For the first ever time, it’s expected that Britons will spend more this year on video-streaming subscriptions and content downloads than on buying and renting DVDs, according to Strategy Analytics. Online formats will account for 58 percent of home video spend, compared to 42 percent for DVDs, whose share last year was 52 percent.

LONDON: Freesat has been cleared by the BBC Trust to offer live pay sports services delivered via broadband.

LONDON: A new report has concluded that the impact of privatizing Channel 4 would be “overwhelmingly negative for the overall economy, the broadcasting ecology and creative industries, technology adoption and commercial innovation, C4’s consumer surplus and advertiser surplus, and wider society.”

LONDON: Channel 5 will be launching in high definition on Freeview tomorrow.

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 Group increased its revenues by 22 percent to 802 million euros ($924 million), while recurring EBITDA rose by 12 percent to 170 million euros ($196 million).

LONDON: BBC has extended its deal with World Snooker and will continue to broadcast three of the sport’s biggest tournaments until the end of the 2018-19 season.

PARIS: Eurosport, World Snooker and IMG have revealed a ten-year extension of the TV and digital rights to show 18 tournaments of the World Snooker Tour on Eurosport and its on-demand digital service Eurosport Player.