{"id":6029,"date":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/"},"modified":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"sony-ties-up-film1-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tLONDON: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch movie service Film1, having received regulatory approval from the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSPT now has full ownership of five premium pay-TV channels under the Film1 umbrella&mdash;Film1 Premiere, Film1 Action, Film1 Comedy &amp; Kids, Film1 Spotlight and Film1 Sundance&mdash;along with the Film1 Go service. The Film1 Go service is available to all Film1 channel subscribers on PCs, tablets and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKate Marsh, SPT&rsquo;s executive VP of networks for Western Europe, said: &ldquo;The acquisition of Film1 marks a key move into the Dutch market and underlines our continued commitment to grow our highly successful and diverse suite of channels across Europe. Film1 complements and expands our successful Networks portfolio and we are looking forward to working with all our partners to continue to build on the success of the Film1 proposition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch movie service Film1, having received regulatory approval from the European Commission. SPT now has full ownership of five premium pay-TV channels under the Film1 umbrella&mdash;Film1 Premiere, Film1 Action, Film1 Comedy &amp; Kids, Film1 Spotlight and Film1 Sundance&mdash;along with the Film1 Go service. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal . LONDON, July 21: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch movie service Film1, having received regulatory approval from the European Commission. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal . LONDON, July 21: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch movie service Film1, having received regulatory approval from the European Commission. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-21T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/\",\"name\":\"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-21T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-21T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\"},\"description\":\"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal . LONDON, July 21: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch movie service Film1, having received regulatory approval from the European Commission. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\",\"name\":\"TVEUROPE\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\",\"name\":\"World Screen\",\"description\":\"The leading source of information for the international media business.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal","description":"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal . LONDON, July 21: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch movie service Film1, having received regulatory approval from the European Commission. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal","og_description":"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal . LONDON, July 21: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch movie service Film1, having received regulatory approval from the European Commission. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/","og_site_name":"TVEUROPE","article_published_time":"2015-07-21T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg"}],"author":"World Screen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"World Screen","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/","name":"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-07-21T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2015-07-21T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7"},"description":"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal . LONDON, July 21: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch movie service Film1, having received regulatory approval from the European Commission. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/07\/21\/sony-ties-up-film1-deal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sony Ties Up Film1 Deal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/","name":"TVEUROPE","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7","name":"World Screen","description":"The leading source of information for the international media business.","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}