UEFA warned that illicit broadcasts of some of its top matches posed a "significant threat" to European football. UEFA said that it was "aware" that BeoutQ, based in Saudi Arabia, illegally distributed the Champions League and the Europa League throughout '17-18, including the Champions League final. UEFA said that BeoutQ has not "received any rights whatsoever to broadcast any of its events" (BLOOMBERG, 6/21).
BT is the first U.K. pay-TV provider to offer Amazon Prime Video access via its set-top box. BT TV customers will be able to access the Prime Video app, allowing them to watch thousands of TV episodes and movies, as well as live sports like the tennis U.S. Open and the Premier League next year (DIGITAL TV EUROPE, 6/21).
Cloud-based technology provider Make.TV was chosen by the Greenland's KNR to help the network cover 40 events during the ongoing Pan American Handball Championship. Due to the unusual meteorological conditions and limited broadcast signal availability of the Arctic Circle, KNR decided to avoid relying on satellite feeds and inflexible hardware. Instead, the corporation opted for an outside broadcast production infrastructure combined with Make.TV’s Live Video Cloud (Make.TV).
Fox Sports Italia announced it will stop broadcasting on June 30, five years after the channel launched in Italy. The "somewhat unavoidable destiny" of the sports channel, distributed via pay-TV platform Sky Italia, was "marked after the recent assigning of the Serie A TV rights." Sky Italia decided not to renew the distribution contract, for which it paid €32M ($37.2M) a year from '15-18 (ADVANCED TELEVISION, 6/21).
