Tag: Sky

LONDON: John Cassy, who spent ten years at Sky, and BAFTA-winning director Daniel Smith have formed a new immersive content production studio, Factory 42, the first commission for which will be a bespoke virtual-reality experience for Sky.

LONDON: Sky has invested $1 million in The Drone Racing League (DRL), and has inked a distribution deal that will see the competition come to the newly launched Sky Sports Mix channel.

LONDON: Sky has invested €4 million ($4.5 million) in Molotov, an OTT video platform in France.

LONDON: A League of Their Own: US Road Trip has been greenlit for a second installment, in a deal between Sky and CPL Productions.

LONDON: Sky and Channel 4's Indie Growth Fund have invested in Dial Square 86's latest financing round, supporting the online TV-rights tool TRX.

LONDON: Full-year revenues rose by 7 percent to £12 billion ($15.7 billion) at Sky, delivering an operating profit of £1.6 billion ($2 billion), a 12-percent gain.

BRUSSELS: The European Commission has accepted concessions by Paramount regarding the studio's film licensing deals with Sky in the U.K. following an antitrust investigation.

LONDON: Tilusha Ghelani, previously assistant comedy commissioner at the BBC, is joining Sky Comedy as its new commissioning editor.

AMSTERDAM/LONDON: A new pact between Sky and CBS Studios International will bring The Late Late Show with James Corden to audiences in the U.K. and Ireland.

LONDON: Sky and ITV have aligned with Ginx TV to launch the U.K. and Ireland’s first and only 24-hour eSports TV channel, GINX eSports TV.