Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – has confirmed that Zoë Clapp, UKTV’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, is joining its board. Clapp replaces Jan Gooze-Zijl, UKTV’s Chief Financial and Operations Officer, who was the previous UKTV Thinkbox board director. The other board shareholder directors are Jonathan Allan, Sales Director, […]
Fifty-five per cent of viewers say they would be interested in streaming games online instead of watching on cable, including 77 per cent of Millennials, according to a national survey commissioned by strategic communications and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller’s Fan Experience sports and entertainment speciality group, and fielded by research consultancy Penn Schoen Berland (PSB), […]
February 9th will see Eutelsat unveil its first-half year results. Equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNP-Paribas, in a report February 1st, say they expect the satellite operator to report a 4 per cent fall in organic revenues and not helped by a 2 per cent drop in the company’s all-important Video revenues and a significant […]
Global industry association WorldDAB has completed a comprehensive review and revision of the DAB digital radio standard, identifying obsolete features, clarifying the description of features to aid interoperability and updating specific features. This work ensures that the system standard is fit for the future. The work was carried out by the WorldDAB Technical Committee, marking […]
Telenor’s two satellite-based divisions, Canal Digital DTH and Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) were both under revenue pressures last year. Canal Digital DTH suffered during Q4 (at NOK 1.098 million, compared with NOK 1.172 in 2015), while its Norkring transmission business saw Q4 revenues of NOK 280 million (NOK 286 million in 2015). Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s […]
Genius Digital, the experts in audience analytics, has announced the official launch of its new Offline Viewing Analytics product. The new is designed to help operators understand how their subscribers are viewing downloaded and offline content, and how offline viewing fits into the wider consumption profile of subscribers. The launch follows on the heels of […]
Audience measurement and data management platform Tru Optik, built for OTT TV, is expanding its capabilities through a partnership with global research agency Kantar Millward Brown, which specialises in ad effectiveness and media research. The partnership will enable advertisers to attribute brand sales to OTT ad campaigns through Tru Optik’s recently-released OTT Marketing Cloud. Cross-device […]
UK cellular and TV distribution business Arqiva is up for sale. Arqiva has a near monopoly for the distribution of the UK’s digital terrestrial TV signals, and handles most of the Britain’s cellular towers. The company’s owners include pension funds under the control of Australian bank Macquarie, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Sources […]
Although not quite taking it to the 11th hour, with news emerging mid-evening UK time, pay-TV platform Sky and multi-channel programmer Discovery have agreed a carriage deal which means Discovery’s portfolio of 12 channels will continue to be available on Sky and Discovery Channel will continue to be available on NOW TV in the UK […]
TalkTalk says its customers are reaping the rewards of the value for money provider’s radical changes to its business. Revealing its Q3 results, the UK telco said it made “an unquestionable return to its challenger roots last year by offering a new range of plans, which guarantee no broadband price increases for the entirety of […]