Business
Warner Bros Discovery, BT reach ‘definitive agreement’ on BT Sport joint venture
Warner Bros Discovery could buyout BT during the joint venture's fist four years, while BT could sell its stake or enter an IPO
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Business
ITV, BBC agree to continue funding YouView until 2024
YouView's shareholders have reached an agreement on the IPTV service's governance and funding arrangements
Business
Discovery confirms exclusive talks with BT Sport on Joint Venture
BT Group said it is aiming to conclude the exclusive discussions with Discovery, in the early part of Q1, with a view to the...
Business
Is the sale of BT Sport going into extra time?
Discovery is reportedly keen on acquiring the sports broadcaster
Media Delivery
Amazon’s Premier League coverage scores UK network traffic peak
BT said it saw the highest peak yet on its fixed network, 25.5Tbps, around 25,000gb of data every second
Business
BT in talks with ‘small handful’ of interested parties over Sport sell-off
"We are in no rush, we want to do the right thing for everyone," said Philip Jansen
Business
BT confirms Adam Crozier appointment
Crozier will officially take over as the company's chair on 1st December
Business
BT ‘set to appoint Adam Crozier as new chairman’
Former ITV chief executive is reported to have beaten three others to the role
Business
BT ‘hopes to announce Sport deal by next quarter’
ITV CEO Carolyn McCall says broadcaster is not looking to buy BT Sport, but doesn't rule out a possible tie-up between the two
Business
BT Sport ‘holds talks with Rupert Murdoch’
Talks with News UK are said to be at an early stage
Media Consumption
BT launches new STB with 4K HDR, Dolby Atmos
BT Box Pro also gives BT customers 1TB of storage, as well as the ability to record three shows and watch a fourth at...
Business
BT confirms talks around potential sale of BT Sport
Company is said to have held initial talks with DAZN, Amazon and Disney
Production & Post
BT’s media operations takes flight with Blackbird
Telco will use Blackbird to access and edit multiple live broadcast streams of sports and other content for downstream distribution to OTT and VoD...
Media Management
Cisco, BT aim to speed up video streaming
“Streaming video may be the killer app for the internet, but it doesn’t have to kill the internet,” said Cisco.
Production & Post
BT, Nevion validate 5G technologies for broadcast production
Companies are working together to qualify the inherent performance of 5G technology, looking both at the data plane (the transport of media over the...
Business
Sky, BT stand to lose £1 billion in sport shut-down
"Negotiating pay cuts with players is as difficult as herding cats"
Business
FA considers scrapping 3pm blackout to screen closed-off matches
Sky and BT could screen all Premier League matches for free but block their signal in pubs
Features
The apprentice magician
BT apprentice Katherine Scott explains why it's important young girls see they can be engineers too
TVBEverywhere
BT’s NOW TV integration is a “long overdue move”
Analyst Paolo Pescatore calls offering "a last ditch effort to be successful in TV"
Business
Sky ‘set to beat BT and Virgin to Disney Plus deal’
BT and Virgin Media could be shut out of carrying the new streamer
Business
ITV, BT ‘in talks over Champions League rights’
BT is entitled to sell the rights to a rival broadcaster
Media Consumption
BT and ATEME partner to combat piracy
BT will employ ATEME's encryption technologies to protect satellite uplinked content
TVBEverywhere
BT adds Amazon Prime Video, Alexa integration
BT TV viewers can use Alexa to search for content
Business
BT Sport appoints new sports rights MD
New role will spearhead BT’s renewed efforts to grow viewers and revenues for BT Sport
Technology
The Satellite and Terrestrial Network for 5G demonstrates use cases
Included use of 5G for 4K video content and delivery of live channels
Production & Post
BBC completes first live 5G production trial
Reduces both complexity and cost of production
Business
All English Champions League final leads to “astounding” spike in BT Sport interest
BT CEO confirmed broadcaster will bid for rights again
Business
BT to recruit more apprentices and graduates in TV production and engineering
Company says it is aiming to recruit more than 1,600 new members of staff
Business
New broadcast names enter the frame for Premier League top job
Premier League is on the hunt for a new chief executive
TVBEverywhere
Apple and BT in ‘pay-TV partnership talks’
According to reports, companies are discussing deal to make EE a major distributor of Apple TV set-top boxes
Content
BT debuts enhanced BT TV app
BT TV App Extra allows customers to play content on up to four devices around the home through Samsung Smart TVs, Apple TV and...
Business
Premier League win a “massive opportunity” for Amazon
20 live games and weekly highlights packages across the 2019 to 2022 period will be shown on Amazon's Prime Video platform
Content
BT to premiere The Terror on YouTube in UK first
First episode of the drama series will be available to watch on YouTube for 24 hours
Business
BT again tops list of pay-TV complaints
Number of complaints about the service rose in Q4 of 2017
Business
Ofcom to publish first BBC performance report as part of 2018/19 Annual Plan
Regulator will also publish reports on diversity in the UK’s radio and television industries