Sky, Netflix join for ‘Ultimate On Demand’
Netflix is coming to Sky Q and with it a new Sky subscription pack: Ultimate On Demand. Ultimate On Demand will be the UK’s biggest on demand TV service, bringing together for the first time Sky Box Sets, which boasts 400 of the best UK and US series, and the…
Research: 112.5m untapped TV audience
Research by the International Television Research Group (inTV) – a cooperative group of independent channels whose objective is to promote the benefits of international TV to the advertising/communications…
Liberty unveils Horizon 4
Liberty Global has unveiled its next-generation TV entertainment platform, ‘Horizon 4’, at the company’s annual Tech Summit in Amsterdam. The new Horizon 4 suite of products includes a…
Ofcom CEO: ‘Broadcasting regulation could tackle online harm’
Sharon White, CEO of UK communications regulator Ofcom, has suggested that the body’s experience of regulating broadcasting might be relevant to tackling online harm, as the Government considers…
IHS: Content discovery key to customer satisfaction
According to the Connected Devices and Media Consumption survey from IHS Markit, TV content discovery is at the heart of the battle among TV and video providers to…
Viacom’s Bakish: “Piracy takes away jobs”
Declaring that the company has “an incredible collection of IP and brands” Viacom President and CEO Bob Bakish has said the programmer will continue to work with its…
Orange, beIN Sports offer French Ligue 1 in 4K
French telco Orange has informed its fibre customers equipped with a TV 4 set top box and subscribing to beIN Sports that they are now able to watch…
Africa’s E&M industry enters new wave of convergence
Africa’s entertainment and media industry has entered a new phase – a third wave of convergence – according to PwC’s Entertainment and media outlook: 2018 – 2022: An African…
Culture Secretary: Government will support PSBs
Jeremy Wright, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has confirmed that the UK government will support Public Service Broadcasters to ensure they continue to…
Spain’s 4K All Flamenco for France
The Spanish 4K TV channel All Flamenco has reached an agreement with Orange France to become part of its Spanish bouquet of 8 channels. It is included in…
DTT transmission battle in Ghana
StarTimes Group, the China-backed digital broadcaster in Africa, is looking to operate Ghana’s digital terrestrial service, but has hit a major stumbling block from a consortium of the…
Netflix hires Bodyguard
Netflix has struck a deal with ITV Studios Global Entertainment for the streaming rights to thriller series Bodyguard to its members globally outside of the UK and Ireland…
Eutelsat: “Losing Flix TV will have no financial impact”
The news that Slovakian DTH platform Flix TV was to close caused equity analysts to re-work their revenue forecasts for Eutelsat, which carries the broadcaster’s channels from its…
Foxtel to show Bathurst in 4K
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel will create Australian television history by broadcasting the nation’s iconic motor race, the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 and Supercars in 4K ultra high definition.…
Jaunt promotes Reaugh to CEO
Jaunt, a global partner for producing and distributing immersive content, has announced three senior leadership transitions today. Mitzi Reaugh, previously VP of Global Business Development and Strategy, has…
Döpfner appointed to Netflix board of Directors
Netflix has announced the appointment of Mathias Döpfner, Chairman and CEO of German publishing house Axel Springer, to its board of directors. “We are very pleased to welcome…
Airbus denies GEO downturn
A week ago Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) was talking openly of closing (or perhaps selling or merging) its Palo Alto satellite…
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AI, all that bright?
Artificial Intelligence is a phrase you hear everywhere these days. It will make the buses the run on time, it…
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