Alex Mahon, currently CEO of Foundry, a global technology business delivering visual effects and virtual reality for the entertainment industry, has been appointed as the next Chief Executive of UK public service broadcaster Channel 4. She was previously CEO of Shine Group until 2015. The announcement by the Channel 4 Board follows the news revealed […]
Sky News has turned to video-over-cellular company LiveU to provide all-embracing live coverage of the UK General Election, which will be held on June 8th. Crucial to the order is the company’s ability to supply a very high volume of portable transmission units at short notice. LiveU’s UK partner Garland Partners is again overseeing this […]
Apple has unveiled its all-new App Store, designed from the ground up to make discovering apps and games as easy as possible. The company says the redesigned App Store is “packed with original stories and editorial, updated daily in a new Today tab, as well as new Games and Apps tabs. Compelling stories, in-depth interviews, […]
Last Thursday’s launch of two giant satellites by an Arianespace rocket was a success in more ways than one. The launch saw a flawless deployment of two important satellites, including Eutelsat 172B and the massive ViaSat-2 craft for broadband-by-satellite operator ViaSat of Carlsberg, California, and the heaviest-ever satellite (at 6,418 kgs) built by Boeing. The […]
SES and MultTV have announced a multi-year capacity agreement which will enable MultTV’s ISP customers to deliver TV content to their Internet subscribers via IP. MultTV, a Brazilian communications company that specialises in providing video services to smaller regional Internet Service Providers, will use C-band capacity on SES-6 to transmit a mix of approximately 60 […]
Digital TV Research forecasts that Netflix will have 128 million subscribers by 2022, up by 44 per cent from 89 million at end-2016. The Netflix Forecasts report estimates that the number of international subscribers will exceed US ones by early 2018. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said:
Italian pay-TV platform Mediaset Premium has formally approved a capital increase to cover its 2016 losses, reports local news agency Radiocor. However, unlike previous years, shareholder Telefonica, which has a 11 per cent share, abstained. The shareholders approved the 2016 financial statements, which ended in the red for €384 million, negatively impacting equity (for €142 […]
Atresmedia Internacional, the International division of Spain’s Atresmedia, operator of Antena 3 TV and La Sexta among others, has reached 50 million homes internationally with its three channels Antena 3 TV Internacional, Atreseries Internacional and Hola TV. A potential audience of 200 million viewers can now watch these channels. Antena 3 is dedicated to current […]
Four important Arab nations have cut all diplomatic and other links with Qatar accusing the phenomenally wealthy country of “financing terror and undermining security,” according to the FT. The report will present significant problems for global news channel Al Jazeera as well as its sports offshoot beIN Sports. Saudi Arabia, long having had an antagonistic […]
Over half (57 per cent) of TV viewers in The Netherlands binge watch, viewing multiple episodes of a TV show in rapid succession, according to a study from Telecompaper’s Consumer Panel. The number of Dutch people who binge watch rose 9 percentage from Q1 2014 to Q1 2017. Downloading is becoming a less popular way […]