Sky Television have the rights for the next four Olympic Games locked up after inking a long-term deal.

Why did a row involving Mihingarangi Forbes and Annabelle Lee challenging Willie Jackson wind up before a Crown entity, asks John Drinnan.

MediaWorks is taking initiatives to improve its on-demand offering on 3Now.

Rising costs of securing content have pushed Sky TV half-year profits down 5.8 per cent.

Sky Television still doesn't know why the technology behind its app failed, preventing thousands of customers from watching three big sporting events yesterday.

Sky Go customers are complaining of being unable to use the app to stream channels during three big sporting events.

On Monday this week, Netflix sent out a press release across Australasia, announcing a whole bunch of good news.

Chinese news and programmes in Japanese and Korean languages will not be broadcast on Sky TV from March.

Kingfish, the NZX-listed investment company managed by Fisher Funds Management, has sold its stake in SkyTV because of concerns about the increased cost of delivering new services and the arrival of....

Sky Sport has launched a bid to snatch exclusive NZ rights to screen live English Premier League football from Coliseum Sports Media.

New software will allow customers to download programmes from its collection of shows and watch at any time - but there have been glitches.

What is the future of television? Will TV have a similar dramatic downturn in revenue as the newspaper, music and book retailing sectors?

Shares have taken a battering and Kiwis are embracing streaming services.

Sky TV is under threat as it faces the end of its monopoly on pay television and has raised the prospect of viewers switching off when the Rugby World Cup ends.

NZ shares rose as a weakening Kiwi dollar and demand for dividends boosted equities.

More than $200 million was wiped off Sky TV's market value after the company said annual profit would fall by up to 11 per cent as the business grapples with rising costs and online competition from streaming services such as Netflix.

Sport, movie fans to benefit as Sky combats its cheaper online rivals, writes John Drinnan. The upgrade will be made by downloading apps, or using new set-top boxes where necessary.

Sky TV's emerged from its first year of viable pay TV competition with only a few scratches.

Sky TV says profits are up 6.4 per cent, despite a small fall in subscriber numbers.

The screening rights to Auckland schoolboy rugby will be opened up next season to other media companies, giving them the chance to take on broadcasting giant Sky.

Sky has announced its channels will be reordered, with the changes coming into effect in September.

The Radio Broadcasters Association has announced research company GfK will be the new provider for the commercial radio survey from 2016.

A South Auckland rugby club that screened the historic test match between the All Blacks and Samoa to a crowd of around 300 people did so illegally.

Rugby fans are fuming after missing much of yesterday's All Blacks match in Samoa because of a glitch in Sky TV's app, Sky Go.

Broadcasters have won the 'global mode' world streaming battle - ISPs say they'll stop offering the service from September.

The brazen actions of Call Plus - promoting its Global Mode method of accessing foreign television, ultimately killed the service, says media writer John Drinnan.

The Spark-owned video-on-demand service Lightbox will be bidding for streaming rights for NRL games, forcing Sky to defend its stranglehold on mainstream TV sport.

Shares in Sky Network Television dropped 0.9 per cent in February after the company delivered a strong first-half profit but lost 8,707 subscribers.