UPC has secured the distribution rights for the German football Bundesliga for its MySports channel by entering into a partnership with Sky Deutschland. The deal kicks of with the upcoming season. Steffi Buchli, Director of Programming, MySports: “I am thrilled that as a new sports channel we can now also offer our customers this highlight […]
Greece’s Syriza-led government is keen to limit the number of national terrestrial broadcasters to four. The country’s National Council of Radio & Television (ESR) disagrees, and wants to permit a total of 7 terrestrial broadcasters. Syriza wanted to shake up Greece’s established broadcasting sector, although faced controversy and allegations of favoritism in its decisions. ESR, […]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking views on the potential joint bid for Ten Network by bodies controlled by Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon, in particular, how it might affect competition in Australian media and advertising, as well as any effects on what TV programming. In an issues letter released on July […]
BBC Monitoring is reporting that Russia’s state-run Channel One TV and China Central Television (CCTV) have signed an agreement to launch the first Russian television channel in China. The deal was sealed at the Russian-Chinese media forum held on July 4th as Chinese President Xi Jinping was visiting Moscow, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported. […]
Stream-ripping is now the most dominant form of music piracy in the UK, according to research by the Intellectual Property Office and PRS For Music. The Online Copyright Infringement (OCI) Tracker, commissioned by the IPO, has revealed that 15 per cent of UK Internet users, approximately 7 million people, either stream or download material that […]
Lee Raftery has been appointed to take on an expanded leadership role within NBCUniversal International, based in London. Raftery is named as Managing Director, UK & Emerging Markets in the International Networks division, overseeing growth strategy and driving performance for the group’s portfolio of channel brands in these markets. Core brands include Universal Channel, Syfy, […]
RTVE has become the first national channel in Spain to complete a live broadcast in Dolby Audio and Dolby Vision. On July 5th, the historic Solemn Changing of the Guard ceremony was broadcast live in Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology and Dolby AC-4 sound, using the 4K DVB-T2 trial channel that is operated […]
C Spire has launched a new in-home streaming TV service in the US that eliminates the need for set-top boxes. C Spire TV delivers the cable TV features that consumers love in a simple app designed to run on popular streaming devices from Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Apple TV with Roku availability expected […]
IdeaNova Technologies, a provider of Inflight Entertainment (IFE) solutions and Digital Rights Management (DRM), unveiled Inplay Instant, their newest multimedia player. Now, airline passengers can quickly and easily playback any DRM content—such as Hollywood movies—on their laptop or any web browser, regardless of the supported DRM Content Decryption Module (CDM). With the new player operators […]
A ComScore report has revealed that Netflix gets more viewing time in the US than rivals Amazon, Hulu and YouTube combined. The data shows Netflix holds a 40 per cent share of total viewing hours of an OTT service, with YouTube ranking second place with 18 per cent, Hulu third with 14 per cent and […]