A pay-TV pirate has been fined AED 50,000 (about €12,000) and sentenced to 3 months in prison for infringing OSN’s copyrights and intellectual property rights. The dealer was pirating output from India’s Dish TV in the Emirates. However, the fine is extraordinarily modest considering that the pirate was found with more than 2000 illegal set-top […]
M-Three Satcom, the Italian based teleport operator founded in 2004 and acquired by Giglio Group in 2015, is set to be acquired by Vertice 360 – the Spanish media company owned by Squirrel Capital. M-Three Satcom will be main part of a wider agreement including the purchase by Vertice of other media assets of Giglio […]
Netflix has entered into partnerships with Anima, Sublimation and David Production. These production houses and Netflix will jointly create original anime series including the animated series Altered Carbon: Resleeved from Anima. Altered Carbon is based on Netflix’s original live action science fiction series whose first season launched in February of 2018 and for which a […]
Newtec, a specialist in equipment for satellite communications, has successfully deployed two Newtec Dialog hubs in the UK and Finland for Middle East satellite operator Arabsat to enable the company to deliver High Throughput Satellite (HTS) services into the Middle East and African markets. “Both our teams worked tirelessly and collaborated with goodwill and professionalism […]
Captain Marvel generated $36 million for IMAX theatres on the movie’s opening weekend, and represented the best-ever attendance for a March opening, and the 5th biggest in IMAX history. With this past weekend’s results, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has now crossed $1 billion in box office revenues for IMAX. Domestically, Captain Marvel grossed $14.1 million […]
Qvest Media, a systems architect and ICT integrator, has been granted the contract to build the required systems for a multi-platform news and media centre owned by Asharq News Services in the heart of Dubai’s financial district. This will lead Bloomberg Asharq to deliver news across online, social, TV and radio services around the clock […]
WWE has surpassed 1 billion followers across its global social media platforms, further cementing its position as one of the most-followed brands in the world. WWE’s Social Media Snapshot: Facebook: 501 million total likes. WWE’s flagship Facebook page has more fans than the NFL, NBA, Marvel, Nike and UFC, and WWE Superstar John Cena is the […]
CABSAT, the Middle East’s leading broadcast media event, has got underway with its hosting of the UAE’s first ever B2B eSports conference – a two-day educational showcase serving a booming Gen Z-led market that experts predict will be worth as much as $2.5 billion by 2020. Key players from the full eSports content stream including […]
VeEX, a global player in innovative test and measurement solutions for next-generation networks, is the proud recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 Global Competitive Strategy, Innovation and Leadership Award in the fiber optic test equipment market. Frost & Sullivan evaluated key criteria in this market sector, such as customer penetration and price/performance, the same benchmarks […]
Italy’s Antitrust Authority launched an investigation into the acquisition of Mediaset Premium’s pay-TV technical platform by Sky Italia and Sky Italian Holdings. The purpose of the procedure is to ascertain the possible competitive effects of the acquisition and to decide whether and how to mitigate its effects by imposing certain constraints. Among other things, the […]