French PSB groups France Télévisions, Radio France, France Medias Monde and INA are set to be overseen by a newly-created holding group, France Médias. Arte France and TV5 Monde, which are owned by international shareholders, won’t be included, but will “participate in the new dynamics”. Youth and family channel France 4, as well as overseas […]
FCC chairman Ajit Pai is optimistic that there will be “results to show” this autumn on the issue of the C-Band Alliance’s (CBA) plan to auction some of its spectrum over the US for 5G repurposing. Pai was addressing delegates at America’s Spectrum Management Conference in Washington DC on September 24th. He said: ˜We’re also […]
The World Broadcast Unions (WBU) – in the light of initiatives by the FCC in the US, Ofcom in the UK, and other national administrations concerning potential C-Band Broadcast Spectrum (3.7 to 4.2 MHz) reassignment for 5G – is expressing their concerns over programme collection and distribution and the potential impact on hundreds of millions […]
YouTube has reversed a decision that would have seen many of its popular video-streamers stripped of their ‘verified’ status badge. The proposed change was supposed to make the ID check more rigorous and help remove impersonators. Instead, the change was seen as stripping established YouTubers of their standing and hobbling their chances to prosper on […]
A French court ruling on in a case brought by the French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir against Valve found that purchasers of video games on Valve’s digital platform, Steam, are permitted to resell them. This ruling contradicts established EU law and should be overturned on appeal, according to the IFSE, which represents the interests of […]
The UK Culture Secretary, Nicky Morgan has pushed for the biggest events in women’s sport to become ‘listed events’ on free-to-air TV, so that mass audiences can watch them and be inspired by the achievements of our women sport stars. Morgan also encouraged public service and commercial broadcasters to do more to secure their future […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has published final conclusions on the relationship between BritBox – a proposed new streaming service from ITV and the BBC – and the BBC’s publicly-funded (or ‘Public Service’) activities. As required under the Corporation’s Charter and Agreement, Ofcom has assessed whether the BBC’s involvement in Britbox represents a ‘material change’ to […]
A Report – An Update on Rural Connectivity – from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament has highlighted the continuing digital divide between urban and rural areas, suggesting that this, together with that between rural towns and sparser rural settlements, continues to marginalise communities and be the cause of frustration. […]
The licensees of the Red Bull public house in the Kentish village of Eccles, Jared Macdonnchadha, Richard Rodal and Karen Turner, have been convicted in their absence of three offences each of dishonest reception of a television transmission, in this case, Sky televised football matches, with the intent to avoid payment of the applicable charge. […]
A potentially devastating dispute has broken out between two former “cooperation” joint-venture partners: Intelsat has filed a lawsuit against OneWeb and its financial backer Japan’s SoftBank. The writ alleges that the OneWeb and SoftBank conspired together in stealing confidential information, because – the writ states – SoftBank no longer believed in the OneWeb project and was […]