Raketech has launched TVsportguide.com, a TV listings platform and mobile app that delivers real-time TV listings for the most popular sports in the UK. The product was created to match the most popular sports fixtures with real-time TV broadcast listings and online streaming services available within the UK. The online guide is supported by content […]
India’s smallest DTH operator, Reliance Big TV (RBTV) has paid its overdue transmission fees to the country’s satellite transponder operator, Antrix. Antrix handles the commercial dealings of India’s State Research Operation (ISRO) which controls all transponder traffic coming into India. RBTV has been cleared by India’s Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal of restrictions. RBTV […]
CBS All Access, CBS’s direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand service, has launched in Canada, marking its first expansion into an international market. For C$5.99 (€3.82), CBS All Access will offer Canadian viewers more than 7,500 commercial-free episodes on demand, spanning full current seasons of select CBS series, entire previous seasons and classic shows, as well […]
QYOU Media, a curator of ‘best-of-the-web’ video for multiscreen distribution, has revealed that its programming formats now reach an addressable audience of more than 300 million consumers globally. This marks a threefold increase in distribution reach in six months, fueled by significant new partnerships across Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. New partnerships with iflix, […]
SES has expanded its technical reach in Ghana and now serves four million TV homes, compared to two million in 2015, according to the Satellite Monitor study commissioned by SES. The study shows the leading position of SES in the Ghanaian TV landscape, as SES now reaches two-thirds of TV homes in the country, the […]
Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television have announced an upcoming Fast & Furious animated series, the first series in an expansion of their ongoing multi-year deal for original animated kids and family programming. Following Comcast-NBCUniversal’s acquisition of the animation studio, the relationship has been expanded to include a first look at DreamWorks Animation animated series based […]
2017 was a stellar year for the recorded music business, according to MIDiA research. Global recorded music revenues reached $17.4 billion in 2017 in trade values, up from $16 billion in 2016, an annual growth rate of 8.5 per cent. Streaming has, unsurprisingly, been the driver of growth, growing revenues by 39 per cent year-on-year, […]
ThinkAnalytics has boosted its executive team with the appointment of Rob Sowers as senior vice president of sales. Sowers will lead the firm’s expansion and business development drive in the North American pay-TV/OTT personalised content discovery and viewer analytics market. Sowers is most well-known for his nearly five-year tenure as Digitalsmiths’ vice president of sales […]
WORK Microwave, a European manufacturer of advanced satellite communications equipment, has announced that satellite TV provider Kiwisat is using WORK Microwave’s DVB Satellite Broadcast Modulator for its new DTH offering in the Caribbean. Fully compliant with all DVB standards, including the latest and most efficient DVB-S2X specification, WORK Microwave’s modulator will provide Kiwisat with increased […]
The BBC has streamed a full Rugby League match between the York City Knights and Catalans Dragons live in UHD and High Dynamic Range on BBC iPlayer Beta, marking the first time the broadcaster has streamed a live event in the format. Writing in the BBC Technology and Creativity Blog, Phil Layton, Head of Broadcast […]