US entertainment trade body DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group has released its year-end 2016 Home Entertainment Report compiled by DEG members, tracking sources and retail input. Preliminary figures suggest
There was a kind of funny story all over the press here last week. Amazon Echoes in California (where else) started ordering doll’s houses for their owners. In a true case of echoes within echoes, a local TV show in San Diego was reporting how a young girl had told Alexa – the Echo’s operating […]
Sony Pictures Television’s portfolio of kids’ channels is launching a catch-up service on UK Internet TV platform YouView from January 10th. Following YouView’s recent announcement of a re-engineering and redesign of the entire platform, Sony Kids is the first player to launch since the roll out of the new software. Sony Kids brings together Sony’s […]
It seems that London-based speciality satellite operator Avanti Communications has won a vote of approval from its bondholders to its financial restructuring plan. Some 91.85 per cent of bondholders have approved the scheme. Avanti, which is listed on the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) said the consent solicitation was to permit, among other things, the […]
Snap, the company behind social media messaging app Snapchat, has confirmed it will set up its main international hub in the UK. The company says it chose Britain because of the nation’s “strong creative industries” in a move that bucks the general Brexit mood. Claire Valoti, Snap’s UK general manager, said: “The UK is where […]
Consultancy firm Strategy Analytics has recommended that mobile operators, especially those with multi-screen assets and ambitions to provide superior mobile video and data experiences to customers, adopt eMBMS, or LTE Broadcast, more aggressively. In its report, Time For Operators To Embrace LTE Broadcast, the firm suggests
Bad weather in California forced rocket launch company SpaceX to postpone its upcoming flight to place 10 small Iridium satellites into orbit. The new date is January 14th. The headline-worthy bad weather, of extraordinary high winds and rain, as well as other schedule conflicts, have forced the delay. The Iridium satellites have been in place […]
BBC Worldwide has confirmed the launch of a global entertainment channel, BBC HD, the company’s first channel produced exclusively for cruise ships and the wider maritime market. It will go live through Global Eagle Entertainment’s (GEE) MTN TV network, with P&O Cruises and Cunard being the first to offer this to their guests. Content on […]
A report from Midia Research founder and music industry expert Mark Mulligan states in his blog that music streaming subscriptions have reached the 100 million mark in December 2016. This compares to 66 million at the end of 2015 and 41 million at the end of 2014. Equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNP-Paribas say their […]
SPI International / FilmBox Channels Group has launched the FunBox UHD channel on Qatar’s Ooredoo tv. FunBox UHD is a global general entertainment channel broadcast in UHD quality. It features compelling primetime programming and documentaries on nature, wildlife, society, music videos, sports, arts and culture and more. The channel is available to all subscribers of […]