The DCMS Committee, which monitors the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and its associated bodies, including the BBC, on behalf of the House of Commons and the electorate, has published responses to recommendations of its predecessor Committee’s report which focused on proposed changes to the TV licence […]
Broadcom, the chipmaker for STBs, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Netflix. The chipmaker claims that Netflix has infringed on eight patents dealing with video playback and data transmission. The suit states that Netflix’s infringement has contributed to the rise of cord-cutting, which has driven down demand for Broadcom’s chips. “As a direct result […]
UK MPs are calling on the government to include the Six Nations rugby tournament as a Category A listed sporting event to ensure free-to-air coverage. The formal request follows a failure by the Six Nations Council to give a clear answer to questions from the DCMS Committee about whether it had held discussions with the […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has confirmed how it will release important airwaves to help improve mobile broadband and support the rollout of 5G. To help improve mobile services and give more people access to 5G networks, Ofcom will release more mobile airwaves through an auction. This will increase the total amount of airwaves available for […]
Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC, has strongly defended the regulator’s plan for a public auction for C-band, and told the US Senate Financial Services Subcommittee that he was confident that the FCC’s plan would be accepted. One senate member (Sen Chris Coons, Dem-Delaware) asked Pai how certain he was that there would not be […]
In light of the UK government announcement regarding the next stages of its response to the Coronavirus situation and travel bans and/or restrictions on delegates, organisers have made the decision to reposition the Connected TV World Summit scheduled for March 18th as a virtual and digital event only. “Unfortunately this means that we will no […]
The FCC has announced the conclusion of bidding in Auction 103, which made 3,400 megahertz of millimetre-wave spectrum available in the Upper 37 GHz, 39 GHz, and 47 GHz bands. The auction had a total of $7,558,703,201 in net bids, with 28 bidders winning a total of 14,142 of 14,144, or more than 99.9 per […]
Trade body the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has suggested that site blocking is an effective way to combat piracy. Appearing before a US Senate Committee Hearing on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property on ‘Approaches of Foreign Jurisdictions to Copyright Law and Internet Piracy’, Stan McCoy, President and Managing Director, MPA EMEA, suggested the most successful […]
Bowing to the inevitable, given the likely spread of the Coronavirus and consequential withdrawal of a number of exhibitors, NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith has announced that the NAB Show scheduled for April 19th to 22nd in Las Vegas has been called off, with organisers reviewing options for an event later in 2020. In […]
South Africa’s troubled public broadcaster SABC fired its COO Chris Maroleng almost a year ago, which prompted Maroleng to issue a claim in the country’s Labour Court demanding that he receive back pay of R16 million (almost $1 million) or to reinstate him into his old job. In April last year a SABC statement said: […]