New Zealand broadcaster TVNZ has bought the streaming rights for the first series of Hitstroke FM.
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Presto Entertainment has hired several new staffers and confirmed Shaun James as CEO of the joint venture between Foxtel and Seven West Media.
Subscribers to Netflix and other streaming services are watching on average eight hours of SVOD content per week.
Not only is Netflix creaming Stan and Presto, the US streaming giant's Australian service is causing a decline in the legitimate downloads of movies and TV shows.
The Van Vuuren brothers’ comedy Soul Mates will premiere in the US on Seeso, the NBCUniversal-owned online comedy channel which will launch in January.
The first streaming service dedicated exclusively to Australian films will launch in the first half of 2016.
German broadcaster ZDF has optioned the rights to the #7DaysLater format created by Ludo Studio’s Daley Pearson, Nick Boshier and Charlie Aspinwall.
The Katering Show, Marc Furmie’s Airlock and nine-year-old Grace Mulgrew have won key prizes at the second annual Australian Online Video Awards.