STV Player

STV in deal with FreeWheel for advertising on STV Player

Scottish commercial broadcaster STV has announced a number of initiatives designed to accelerate its digital growth. The broadcaster has struck a new partnership with US advanced advertising company Freewheel which will enable STV’s premium digital advertising inventory to be monetised on the Sky platform. STV Player will launch on Sky in Q4. STV said that it will […]

STV strikes new partnerships for STV Player

Scottish commercial broadcaster STV has struck partnerships with Flame Distribution and Jukin Media to provide additional content for its video-on-demand service STV Player. Jukin Media owns and operates online brands including FailArmy, The Pet Collective, and People Are Awesome, providing short-form content online and on social media platforms, while Flame Distribution is an international distributor of factual, […]

STV launches subscription service STV Player+

Scottish broadcaster STV has launched an ad-free subscription video-on-demand service, STV Player+, that will be available to viewers at home and abroad. The direct-to-consumer offering will allow subscribers to view STV content in Europe for the first time – including shows like Coronation Street, Britain’s Got Talent and the 2019 Rugby World Cup. STV Player+ will offer live and […]

STV Player to launch on Sky for first time

Scottish commercial broadcaster STV has struck a new five-year strategic partnership with pay TV operator Sky that will give Sky customers in Scotland access to STV’s regional variants in full HD, as well as STV’s leading VOD service – STV Player – on their set top boxes for the first time. The deal will enable Sky customers […]

STV Player launches on Virgin TV

Scottish commercial broadcaster STV has launched its video-on-demand service, STV Player, on Virgin TV set-tops from Liberty Global-owned cable operator Virgin Media. The move, which follows the signing of a four-year strategic partnership deal between STV and Virgin Media earlier this year, will integrate the STV Player app and STV catch-up programming on Virgin TV […]

STV Player to launch on Virgin Media

Virgin Media will launch STV’s on-demand service, STV Player, on its set-top boxes for the first time as part of a new deal with Scottish broadcaster. The four-year partnership will also give Scottish Virgin TV customers access to fully regionalised versions of STV in high definition. Virgin Media will broadcast STV in HD in all cabled STV regions – […]

Freesat adds STV Player

Freesat, the UK’s subscription free satellite TV service, has added STV Player from Scottish commercial broadcaster STV to its on-demand line up. Freesat viewers will be able to catch up on shows such as Taggart and Rebus as well as STV’s flagship programmes, including STV News at six and Scotland Tonight. Available to Freesat viewers […]

STV Player launches on Freeview Play

Scottish commercial broadcaster STV’s catch-up service, STV Player has launched on Freeview Play, the on-demand service recently launched to complement the UK DTT free-to-air platform. From today, Freeview Play users within STV’s licence areas can access all STV catch-up programmes for free on their Freeview Play ready set-top boxes or TV sets. STV favourites such […]

Motive to add OTT services to TabletTV

Technology provider Motive Television is set to add over-the-top TV services like Netflix and YouTube to its TabletTV service. Announcing the move, Motive said that it has developed new technology to add internet-delivered channels to its TabletTV offering in the UK and US, with plans to beta test the new offering this summer and to […]