Olympusat Inks Multi-Territory Content Deal With Banijay Rights

Olympusat, LLC announced today it secured a licensing partnership with Banijay Rights to air more than 200 hours of its English, Swedish, and Hebrew-language content in North and South America, excluding Brazil, for use across its products and platforms. Programs of particular note include Banijay series such as Armed and Deadly: Police UK, Fifty ('Hamishim'), and In the Head of a Murderer Sweden. 

“We are thrilled to announce closing a new licensing deal with Banijay Rights,” said Aurora Mohler, Chief Content Officer. “Once again, Olympusat demonstrates its commitment to a qualitative and diversified content offering with the propose to serve our viewers and platform partners in the best way possible.” 

The new agreement also includes Ambulance Australia season 1 to 4, Armed and Deadly: Gang Wars season 2, Armed and Deadly: Police UK season 1, Catching a Predator, Black Lake season 1 & 2, Crime Secrets of season 1 & 2, Fifty ('Hamishim'), Harem, In the Head of a Murderer Sweden season 1 to 4, Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer season 2, Murder Calls season 1, Murdertown season 1 to 3, Surgeons: At the Edge of Life season 1 to 4, The Detectives season 1 to 2, The Oldenheim Twelve season 1 ('De 12 Van Oldenheim') & 2 ('De 12 Van Schouwendam') - 12 X 1 hour (Eps: 101 To 112), The Truth Will Out season 1 (Swedish).

Michelle Wasserman, SVP Lat Am, USH & Brazil, Banijay Rights, said: “We’re pleased to have secured this deal with Olympusat and hope this is the beginning of a long partnership. North and South America are key markets for us, and our vast catalogue means we can offer a wide variety of content to our clients in these regions.” 

Olympusat, LLC is a vertically integrated distributor and owner of Spanish and English language pay- tv channels in the U.S., which includes programming rights and a global distribution content library, a portfolio of networks of 30+ HD and SD networks in English and Spanish-language, a premium FAST channel suite of in-language and dubbed content, in both English and Spanish, and an AVOD streaming service FreeTV.