Sentences with phrase «tv deals have»

Now the tv deals have simply enhanced theirs and their agents greed.

Since the start of premier leauge the TV deals has be very lucarative and even the first 5 year deal starting from 1992 to 97 was worth massive # 191 million in domestic tv rights which were secured by SkySports.

Also on the FFP rules, it's funny how the reasoning behind essentially scrapping them was because the Premier League TV deal would have given English teams an advantage in the Champions League.

The new TV deal has made minor players in the «Richest Greatest League In The World» extremely wealthy.

The new TV deal has widened the gap between the 20 EPL clubs and the «peasants».

Not exact matches

The San Francisco company has been ramping up its efforts in the world of live streaming, kicking off a deal in September with the NFL to stream 10 Thursday night games to Twitter users via the web, mobile apps and streaming devices like the Apple TV.

-- Mike Lowe, founder and CEO of Kidoodle, an award - winning video platform for kids, featuring quality TV shows and movies within a safe viewing environment that has received over $ 10 million in financing and closed major licensing deals

Snap, Inc. has made deals with large media companies to introduce original TV - like programming to the company's flagship app Snapchat, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Many networks have already shown at least some willingness to bend to the industry's shifting tides, as Disney and other networks have reached deals to include their channels in Dish's Sling TV along with other paid streaming platforms.

But it seems that she has her eye on something much larger than just being a TV star: Dunham just signed a deal with Hearst Media that will give the publishing giant the rights to distribute and monetize her popular email newsletter, The Lenny Letter.

Some opposition lawmakers oppose the deal, saying Murdoch, the owner of The Times and The Sun newspapers, would wield too much power if he had full control of a pay - TV group present in more than 12 million British and Irish homes.

The British government said on Thursday it would refer Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of European pay - TV group Sky to regulators to decide if the deal was in the public interest.

Regulators have been taking aim at industry contracts that prevent people from viewing movies and TV programs outside the country in which they are sold, focusing on Sky's deals with major motion picture studios including Walt Disney, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Brothers unit, Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures.

While the EU pay - TV probe has been simmering for years, the U.K. review of the Sky deal could be resolved within weeks as regulators prepare to turn in their final report of government ministers by May 1.

And, in remarks repeated almost word for word on the Astral deal, he said «The market has evolved completely in terms of use of video and TV, to all three screens [TV, online and mobile], and with the introduction of tablets, really four screens,» he said.

In 2016 - 17 and 2017 - 18, when the salary cap will explode because of the league's new TV deal, Cousins will only be making around $ 16 million per year — well below what he'd make if he got a max contract on the open market as a free agent.

The U.S. Justice Department has approached 18 state attorneys general to try to win their support for an antitrust lawsuit to block pay TV and wireless powerhouse AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy media and entertainment company Time Warner Inc, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

The company has already made several moves to ramp up its video strategy, including cutting deals for digital TV shows as well as this week's full rollout of the Facebook Watch tab as the home for all of its original video.

There have been reports for some time that Ricky Van Veen — the CollegeHumor co-founder Facebook hired last year — was looking to sign deals with a wide range of media companies, TV networks, and individual artists for anything video related.

Signing the Potter deal makes sense in part because NBCUniversal already has a Potter - themed attraction at its parks (it now gets access to more material from the films), and because the movies are also a huge draw with younger TV viewers.

Rumoured for months, the deal for Alliance has finally been done and the Canadian film and TV distribution industry has a new kingmaker in eOne.

So in one sense, losing Epix now isn't as big a deal for Netflix as it would have been before the Amazon deal, because that content is now in multiple places (the rights that Netflix relinquished have been picked up by Hulu, which is owned by a consortium of TV networks).

The electric car championship has secured funding and TV deals across the world ahead of its first season, says Alejandro Agag, CEO of Formula E Holdings.

Both of those deals gave Disney a massive library of existing movie, TV, and other content, which it has been using to fuel not just its movie business but its theme parks and merchandising businesses.

The company has reportedly shifted its TV - to - movie ratio from «20/80 to 60/40» over the last few years, and has inked exclusive deals for hot shows with networks such as AMC (home of Breaking Bad and Mad Men).

As a result, there are only two camps who may be interested in taking advantage of GameStop's Black Friday deal: those who have a tangible interest in video games but never actually got around to buying a console, or those who are uninterested in gaming but who will use the Xbox 360 to run Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and Microsoft's own «movies and TV» service (morphing the device into something of a free alternative to a Roku or other streaming gadget).

Comcast would immediately become the world's largest pay - TV operator with 52 million «customer relationships,» if the deal went ahead, according to Macquarie analysts, adding Sky's 23 million subscribers to its own customer base.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has a deal in place with the Jaws and Jurassic Park director's Amblin Television, along with Comcast - owned NBCUniversal's TV production arm, to develop new episodes of Amazing Stories, which originally aired between 1985 and 1987 on NBC.

The deal, expected to close by the end of the year, would give AT&T control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros and other coveted media assets.

With the start of a 12 - year NHL broadcast deal, the launch of streaming Netflix competitor Shomi and the announcement of a $ 100 million partnership with Vice Media to launch a TV channel in 2015, the company has made a range of bets to try to protect against the turbulence of the media market.

Facebook, for example, has made it clear that it wants to do deals with anyone who has short - form TV - style video, and it's willing to pay up in order to get the rights.

May 1 - Toy maker Hasbro Inc has agreed to acquire children's entertainment and merchandising franchises, including the characters of the superhero TV show Power Rangers, from Saban Properties LLC in a deal valued at $ 522 million in cash and stock, the companies announced Tuesday.

Numerous medalists have tried to take on Tinseltown following their athletic retirement, but after the endorsement deals expire, most showbiz careers are limited to an occasional TV guest spot, a brief movie cameo or a stint on reality shows like Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing With the Stars.

As Fortune noted today, Facebook has reportedly signed deals with companies like BuzzFeed and Vox to create longer - form, TV - style video content for the social network's video service, though some publishers may have reservations about whether it would be worth it for them to do so.

«As such, if you're looking for a Black Friday TV deal, you'd be better off skipping right by the 1080p deals and going straight for the 4K sets.

That deal would have given Hasbro a direct pipeline into Hollywood, with more movies and TV shows tied to its toy brands.

Vice Media has rung up a series of impressive deals in the past year or so, lining up a $ 250 million investment from A&E Networks, securing another $ 250 million from Silicon Valley's Technology Crossover Ventures, signing a pact with HBO to take its news show to 35 episodes a year from 14, forging a Vice TV network in Canada with Rogers Communications and now realizing its dream of a U.S. TV network with a planned takeover of A&E Networks» History Channel spinoff H2.

That's right: As TV networks and media buyers get ready to begin the high - stakes upfront negotiations for ad time in just the 2015 - 16 TV season, Vice says it has already «effectively» locked in deals for all its commercial time for three seasons.

Greece's finance minister tells Bloomberg TV he'd rather cut his arm off than agree to a deal without debt restructuring

The deal's announcement was expected last week, but not all of A&E's distribution partners — the cable and satellite TV companies that carry the network's channels — have signed off on the change, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

Coocaa (酷开), the Smart TV Unit of Shenzhen - based consumer electronics manufacturer Skyworth, has inked a deal with Baidu which will invest RMB 1.1 bill...

Kestelman hopes the buzz around the league, having private owners such as Rich Lister Jack Bendat in Perth and Vicinity Centres CEO Grant Kelley in Adelaide and the packaging of Boomers games — the deal includes about 15 Boomers and women's Opals games — will finally translate into more interest from the TV networks.

The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded significant asset sales in order to approve the $ 85.4 billion deal, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, and asked AT&T to sell CNN - parent Turner Broadcasting or its DirecTV satellite TV operation in discussions on Monday.

Netflix signed on with the pay TV network five years ago, but it hasn't had exclusive streaming rights for those studios» films since 2012, when Amazon signed its own Epix deal.

In a TV address, Tsipras has also vowed to begin negotiations with creditors to reach a sustainable deal to tackle Greece's debt crisis.

The company has bargained on and off for years to build the ability to offer programs outside traditional TV packages into its rights deals with sports leagues, and has renegotiated some contracts to make it work.

The deal, which requires further approvals, would give the cable TV distributor 80 per cent of the voting interest and at least 20 per cent of the equity interest in a Canwest Global Communications Corp..

The deal would combine the top two cable TV companies in the United States.

Sling TV has grown a great deal since its launch.

Through the deal, Disney would acquire Fox's studio and TV production assets, which would bolster distribution capacity as it builds out...