To mark World Television Day – the UN’s celebration of the global cultural impact of television – TV companies from around the world have compiled facts and stats to bring the scale and popularity of TV to life as it continues to live at the heart of the world’s media consumption. Today, like every other […]
Brazil’s largest-ever communications satellite, Embratel’s Star One D1 has arrived at Arianespace’s French Guiana spaceport for pre-launch preparation. Built by Space Systems/Loral, the satellite weighs in at 6433 Kgs and will handle TV, radio, voice and data – including Internet. The satellite’s Ku-band enables video transmission services directly to users, along with Internet, data and […]
Sky’s Group CEO Jeremy Darroch has said that while sport remains a key part of its broadcast portfolio, the content rights aren’t as important as they once were. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference in Barcelona, Darroch said: “Sport is very important, obviously football is very important, but relatively, every day it is less […]
In a move that it says creates a TV Anywhere home for performance motoring and motorsport, Motorsport Network has acquired Motors TV, consolidating the world’s largest automotive and motorsport digital technology business with a global broadcast operation. The acquisition of the broadcaster that reaches more than 30 million homes with 130 rights agreements and 700 […]
AOL has released a research study exploring UK consumer viewing attitudes for short form digital video, finding that it has now become the primary news source for younger audiences. More than half (52 per cent) of 18-24 year olds said that they prefer getting their news from short form videos than reading it. The research […]
Newly-proposed satellite constellations seemingly now pop up every day. November 15th saw Elon Musk propose a potential 4400 satellites for his global high-speed broadband system. Coincidentally, November 15th also saw Canada-based Telesat, which today has a global fleet of 15 satellites (plus two others now being built), confirming it wants a low-orbiting constellation of 117 […]
The major release by Amazon Prime of the Clarkson-Hammond-May The Grand Tour motoring show, reportedly a $100 million investment, and hot on the heels of Netflix’s The Crown, again with a massive per-episode budget, is a sign of how the video industry is changing. The Grand Tour will be available in more than 200 markets […]
A tender for new DTT channels will be held in Portugal during 2017, according to the country’s Minister of Culture, Luis Castro Mendes. He said that the Government has not yet formally contacted the regulating bodies about the awarding of two licences for new commercial channels on the national DTT multiplex, but will do so […]
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority published independent research into consumers’ understanding of broadband speed claims made in ads. It commissioned the research to test whether regulatory standards, set by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) and enforced by the ASA, are effective in protecting the public from misleading claims. The standards permit headline speed claims that […]
Italian pay-TV broadcaster Mediaset Premium has partnered with Samsung to broadcast, for the first time, an Italian Serie A football match in 4K. The AC Milan vs Inter Milan match on November 20th will be coded in HEVC 50p, using nine 4K cameras and a single DTT multiplex, at no additional cost to existing subscribers. […]