UK communications regulator Ofcom has published several procedural consultations as part of its preparations for regulating the BBC. Ofcom is also taking the opportunity to seek stakeholder views on proposed changes to its current procedures for handling content standards and broadcast licensing investigations and sanctions. Procedures for enforcement of BBC Competition requirements This consultation covers […]
Pan-European broadcaster Sky has continued the growth of its international production and distribution business with the acquisition of a majority stake in one of the UK’s leading independent production companies, True North, and an investment in UK-based television drama production company from Chris Wright and Mick Pilsworth, Chrysalis Vision. Over the last three years, Sky […]
A federal judge last week denied TiVo’s Research & Analytics (TRA) subsidiary from making a potentially $196 million (€182.6m) claim against a rival. TiVo wanted to sue Kantar Media and its TNS Media Research division for damages in a what was alleged to be a trade-secret misappropriation by Kantar. The claim also argued that Kantar […]
A North Carolina jury levied a massive $20.5 million fine on Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network for making 51,000 illegal telemarketing calls to numbers pre-registered on the ‘Do Not Call’ system. The fine works out at $400 per violation and the scale permitted to the jury ranged from a nominal zero or $1 per violation to […]
India’s Broadcasting Foundation has asked the country’s finance ministry to only levy a 5 per cent goods and services (TVA) tax on TV and cable subscriptions. This would be about half of the rate to be applied. India is due to start collecting the TVA on April 1st 2017, the first national tax and would […]
The DTG has said it was delighted to note the Prime Minister’s comment that the Government’s Industrial Strategy offers “…the change to build that stronger, fairer Britain that stands tall in the world and is set up to succeed in the long-term”. “This resonates with our belief that Innovation moves cyclically between global regions. Many […]
Media veteran Leena Singarajah has been named Managing Director, Asia, for Scripps Networks Interactive. Effective immediately, Singarajah will be responsible for continuing to develop and execute the growth strategy for the Scripps Networks lifestyle business across the region. “Leena is a consummate professional and widely respected for her deep knowledge of the region and the […]
Vivendi has denied reports that it is willing to sell its 24 per cent stake in Telecom Italia (TIM) to facilitate its plan to form a European media conglomerate that would include Italy’s Mediaset. Selling TIM, valued at just over €3 billion, would ease Italian regulators’ concerns over the French media company’s influence in the […]
Sony Pictures Networks India’s proposal to invest in ZEEL-owned Taj Television, has been approved by India’s Competition Commission. Taj TV’s ‘Ten Sports’ portfolio of sports channels is the prize that Sony is after. The scheme sees ZEEL and Sony creating Aqua Holdings, established in August 2016, to carry out the investment whereby Sony India’s Competition […]
With Australia’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) now blocking their customers from a number of websites used to download copyrighted movies and TV shows for free, Roy Morgan Research has studied whose customers are most likely to pay for their downloads. According to the firm, 1.45 million Australians aged 14+ buy movies and TV show downloads […]