The Communications Regulatory Authority’s 2025 Observatory reveals a continued decline in traditional TV viewership in Italy. Compared to 2024, average daily ratings decreased by 2.5 per cent during prime time and 2.8 per cent for the full day. In prime-time, Mediaset took the lead in 2025 with almost 7 million viewers (37.6 per cent share), […]
Orange Belgium and DAZN have announced a distribution agreement that will allow Orange and VOO customers to watch Belgian football (Jupiler Pro League, Challenger Pro League and Women Super League) as well as the major European leagues (Premier League, Bundesliga (both already available on Orange TV), now complemented by Serie A, LaLiga and Ligue 1), […]
On April 17th, Bouygues Telecom, the Free–iliad Group and Orange announced the submission of a new offer reflecting a total enterprise value of €20.35 billion for the Altice France assets under consideration. The Altice France group had granted the Consortium with an initial exclusivity period until today [May 15th]. The parties are still pursuing their […]
British sports fans are being caught in a costly ‘bundle blindspot’ – risking overpayment of more than £400 a year on broadband and TV bundles because they wrongly believe they need to stick with their current provider for their sporting fixes. With the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and FA Cup reaching their conclusions imminently, […]
Median usage for fibre subscribers in the US is more than triple the downstream bandwidth of DOCSIS subscribers during evening peak hours, according to the Q1 2026 edition of the OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI) report. The latest edition of the report builds on earlier analysis to show how median downstream fibre consumption is 3.15x that […]
Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has shared details of its collaboration with international partners in the fight against audiovisual piracy. Writing in a Blog post, Guillermo Rodríguez, Director, Live Sports and Phil Welcome, Director of Investigations, note that ACE recently participated in an Interpol-led training session in Costa Rica, reinforcing its […]
Media.net, a search intent-powered supply-side platform (SSP), has announced the appointment of Adam Gerber – who was recently Head of Ads Commercialisation at Netflix – as Head of Strategy. In this role, Gerber will lead the company’s US go-to-market strategy helping align product marketing, sales, product marketing, and partnerships to drive sustainable revenue growth. Gerber […]
Satellite operator Iridium Communications has entered into an agreement to acquire Aireon, which operates the world’s only space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) air traffic surveillance system. Buying Aireon is a major step in Iridium’s strategy to provide the foundational architecture for global aviation safety, bringing space-based surveillance, safety communications, Positioning, Navigation & Tiiming (PNT), and […]
The Cowboy Space business has filed with the FCC for permission to mount 20,000 satellites for a constellation named Stampede. It has raised $275 million to help fund its ambitions. Based in Silicon Valley’s San Carlos, California, Cowboy Space made its filing on May 14th saying it wanted to start launches in 2028. The filing […]
AMC+ will be the new, exclusive streaming home to 13 seasons and 176 episodes (including specials) of cult sci-fi series Doctor Who (2005 – 2022) in the US beginning June 11th following a deal with BBC Studios. The episodes had previously been unavailable to stream anywhere in the US. “Doctor Who strengthens AMC+’s position as […]
UKTV is partnering with BritBox and Sony Pictures Television for a co-commission of a new period drama Chocolate Wars (working title), produced by Fable Pictures, in association with Alfresco Pictures, and written by Chloë Mi Lin Ewart (Curfew, All Creatures Great and Small, Beyond Paradise). The series will launch on free-streaming service U in 2027. […]
The negotiations which should have led to a decision (the Rendezvous-1/RDV-1 stage) are running late. These past few days have seen both SES and Eutelsat make comments on the discussions. They are the key players in the SpaceRISE consortium (along with Hispasat) and responsible for the scheme. The industry was expecting a decision by April […]
The world is getting very anxious about AI, and who can blame them? What can AI really do, what will it be able to do, can we trust those in charge of it, can we stop them, can we stop it? Not surprising then that politicians seem to circle the problem and then put it […]