Currys PC World has been reprimanded for misleading adverts for 4K TVs by the Advertising Standards Autohority (ASA). The UK’s advertising watchdog upheld a complaint that the electronics chain had encouraged viewers to believe they could watch ultra-HD broadcasts of the Euro 2016 football championship – but no UK broadcaster offered coverage of any of […]
IABM has entered a strategic partnership with AIB – the Association for International Broadcasting. IABM membership comprises 450 broadcast and media technology suppliers worldwide; AIB represents 70 major international broadcasters and has an active community of 27,000 senior executives in media companies in over 160 territories. The partnership brings together both ends of the industry […]
Pay-TV subscriptions for the top 65 operators across 17 countries covered in the Asia Pacific Pay-TV Operator Forecasts report from Digital TV Research will increase by nearly 100 million from a collective 438 million in 2015 to 536 million by 2021. Covering 87 platforms, these operators will climb from 81 per cent of Asia Pacific […]
America’s presidential election coverage helped Fox News maintain its leadership in US cable TV’s primetime ratings, with an average of 1.7 million viewers last week (according to Nielsen). Fox News, with its coverage of the National Conventions has enjoyed a solid summer of ratings. Cable TV’s second spot went to Disney which averaged 1.3 million […]
Visual sharing Media site Pinterest has launched video advertising as it fellow social media destinations that are cashing in on the popularity of online clips. Pinterest has developed a product, Promoted Video Pins, that advertisers in the UK and US can purchase as premium, reserved ad inventory. The company said its new product follows a […]
LG has launched Channel Plus on 2016 LG Smart TVs with webOS – a streaming service offering free access to an extensive roster of premium Internet content (available as both live and on-demand programming) presented as TV channels alongside over-the-air channels. Channel Plus begins rolling out in this US this month to LG’s expansive line […]
A major report from the BBC Trust, its supervisory body, admits that the broadcaster does not handle statistical claims anything like well enough. The report was highlighted by the “Our Beeb” website which criticised the BBC for permitting “murky statistics” to be used – frequently during news and current affairs programming, without being adequately challenged. […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the eleven largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 665,000 net video subscribers in Q2 2016, compared to a loss of about 545,000 subscribers in Q2 2015. The top pay-TV providers account for 93.75 million subscribers – […]
TVPlayer, the UK online TV platform, has signed a multi-year agreement with Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) to simulcast a selection of its pay-TV channels on freemium OTT subscription service TVPlayer Plus. Viacom’s complete channel line-up will encompass MTV, Comedy Central, Comedy Central Extra, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. and Nick Jr. Too, all of which will be available […]
SpaceX completed another ‘double’ success in the early hours of August 14th, launching a satellite and then landing the rocket’s 1st stage. This brought the total of SpaceX launches (for commercial satellites operators and NASA cargo trips) to the International Space Station to eight since January 1st. By comparison, Arianespace has launched just 3 of […]