On the heels of its Premier League streaming success, Amazon has acquired the rights to show selected matches from the Champions League to its subscribers in Germany, as the online giant continues to make strides into sports broadcasting in Europe. Amazon Prime Video will show ‘first-pick’ matches on Tuesday evenings of each game-week from the […]
Deloitte has revealed its predictions for the TMT sector in 2020. Among the predictions: Revenues from AVoD will break £500 million in the UK in 2020 Deloitte predicts that revenues from advertising supported video on demand (AVoD) will reach £500 million (€594.6m) in the UK in 2020, representing 10 per cent of all television advertising […]
Canal+ Group and beIN Sports are in talks with a view to an exclusive distribution and sublicensing deal in France. Under the proposed agreement, Canal+ would offer all beIN Sports premium sports channels and content within its Canal+ offers, while also being the exclusive distributor of beIN Sports to third-party providers across all platforms in […]
Analyst Roger Rusch, CEO at TelAstra, says in a report that the commercial satellite industry is facing 6 different and worrying crises. Rusch suggests that terrestrial growth from fibre and wireless is threatening future growth of the satellite sector, and this is his Crises Number 1. “The wireless and fibre providers are more agile at […]
As 2019 comes to a close, research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics’ thoughts are turning towards the coming year. In a new report – Media & Entertainment Predictions for 2020 – Strategy Analytics Television & Media Strategies (TMS) service highlights the trends and events that will shape the media & entertainment landscape in 2020. “As […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has announced that its shift to a new operating model has led to a reduction in its overall workforce. The personnel savings are expected to be approximately SEK 250 million (€23.6m), with the majority impacting in 2020. This will enable NENT Group to offset USD currency […]
Would-be mega constellation operator OneWeb is to launch its first major batch of satellites at the end of January. OneWeb will use a Russian Soyuz-2.1 rocket, but managed by Arianespace, to take 34 of its satellites into space from the cosmodrome at Baikonur in Kazakhstan on January 30th subject to last minute weather problems. Russian […]
Arte has announced the launch of a 1080p demo channel called Arte HDR, produced from an HD feed, that will broadcast for the next 12 months. The channel is initially available on OTT TV platform Molotov.tv and Free’s Box One and Delta STBs, and will soon also be available on all HDR-compatible TV sets and […]
As 2019 draws to a close, Juniper Research has created its list of the top 10 technology predictions for 2020. The Top 10 5G – Last-mile fibre rollouts to be replaced by 5G connectivity. OTT TV – Advertising stakeholders to develop functional attribution Ecosystem. Mobility as a Service – Open data in transportation to drive […]
The Lego Channel has gone live in the US and Canada and is available across all major OTT streaming platforms, including Roku, Fire TV and Apple TV. The new app, developed in partnership with the multi-platform video distribution company Future Today, boasts over 1,000 videos and features series based on various Lego properties, including Lego […]