The Irish Post has acquired the digital and intellectual property assets of Irish TV from the liquidator – fuelling the possibility of a relaunch for the defunct channel. The London-based newspaper is buying the business name, databases, website domains, social media and video content library of the liquidated TV channel. The newspaper said it wished […]
Facebook’s VR business Oculus has been ordered by a court to pay $500 million (€462.4m) to video game maker ZeniMax. The verdict, in a Texas district court, ruled that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey had failed to comply with a non-disclosure agreement signed with ZeniMax in 2012. Nonetheless, the jury decided that Oculus had not misappropriated […]
The BBC has performed well in collecting the licence fee, having increased the amount of revenue it collects, reduced collection costs and improved its reputation overall. It has, however, performed less well in reducing evasion, according to the National Audit Office (NAO), which it estimates cost the Corporation between £251 million (€294m) and £291 million […]
The rapid take-up of FTTH along with the success of new TV services like HBO and Netflix have seen Vodafone significantly increase its subscriber basis in the last quarter of 206. The company captured 115,000 new FTTH customers reaching a total of 2.2 million of users with the highest Internet speed. At the end of […]
Global performance management company Nielsen has completed its $560 million (€539.5m) acquisition of media and entertainment metadata provider Gracenote from the Tribune Media Company. The acquisition of Gracenote’s global database and technology solutions – which span across platforms including multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), smart televisions, streaming music services, connected devices, media players and in-car […]
In a deal that it says strengthens its position as market leader in media monitoring in Ireland, media intelligence specialist Kantar Media has acquired multi-channel media monitoring provider Newsaccess. With the acquisition, Kantar Media enhances its reputation, PR monitoring and evaluation capabilities, bringing to clients an expanding set of insights and expertise into earned media. […]
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, […]
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 […]