Following successful legal action taken by Sky, three licensees in the Republic of Ireland have been found guilty for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming in their premises without a commercial contract with Sky. Aaron Sharkey, licensee of The Moylurg Inn, Bridge Street in Boyle. Eamon Cliffe, licensee of The Railway Bar, Mill […]
Europe’s governments have agreed to fund the continued development of the Ariane 6 launch system. The European Space Agency has earmarked €350 million for investment on the giant rocket’s production lines, and in particular for the P120 solid-fuel rocket stages. The extra cash was agreed as a portion of the overall €3 billion cost of […]
Newsflare ranks among the top companies engaged in licensing and distributing ‘eyewitness videos’ shot and uploaded by over 60,000 amateurs and professionals located in more than 40 countries worldwide. The London-based company – which also has a large Los Angeles operation serving the US market – licenses the ‘on-the-scene’ videos to media clients throughout the […]
Altice Europe has announced that its subsidiary Altice France has entered into an exclusivity agreement, and its subsidiary PT Portugal has reached an agreement regarding the sale of equity stakes in their telecommunication tower businesses in France and Portugal for a total cash consideration of €2.5 billion. As part of the transaction, Altice Europe would […]
Measat Satellite Systems have announced an agreement with Nepal Digital Services to broadcast four free-to-air video channels across Nepal on Measat-3 at 91.5°E. The channels, which have already begun transmission, are AP1HD, BTV Business, TV Today and TV Filmy. Nepal is currently digitalising its broadcast services in accordance with the initiative by the Nepalese government. […]
NexPlayer and Edgeware hace announced a new integration, creating a joint low latency platform that connects the NexPlayer video player SDKs for Android and iOS with Edgeware’s TV Content Delivery Network (CDN) architecture. For media organisations, ensuring their content is delivered to mobile devices with the latency of linear TV streams can be extremely difficult. […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has announced the expansion of Comedy Central in Germany to a 24-hour offering from January 2019. Market share for the Comedy Central brand in Germany has enjoyed steady growth: +21 per cent market share year-on-year (+ 33 per cent in prime time, 8 – 11 pm) to 1.3 per cent […]
Urban Movie Channel (UMC), the SVoD created for African American and urban audiences, is now available to Comcast’s Xfinity TV customers across the US. A subsidiary of RLJ Entertainment, UMC’s launch on Xfinity TV marks the first time the SVoD service has been made available on an MVPD set-top box. Featuring programming in Black film […]
Disney has upped its offer for 21st Century Fox to $71.3 billion (€61.6bn) in cash and shares, up from an earlier $52 billion offer, as it goes head to head with Comcast. The move values Fox at $38 a share, some $10 higher than Disney’s first offer in December. Comcast’s current offer is $65 billion […]
Disney has committed itself to a series of undertakings in respect of Sky News as part of the proposed merger between 21st Century Fox and Sky. In a Statement in the UK’s House of Commons, Matt Hancock, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, noted that having considered a report from the Competition and Markets Authority, […]