ATEME has announced it is reinforcing a successful partnership with MBC GROUP, the largest private multimedia company in the Middle East & North Africa region. Following a first successful deployment in 2017, ATEME now provides MBC Group with a complete H.264 and HEVC live headend for multi-screen services. In addition to the bandwidth efficiency, High […]
Six Flags Entertainment, the theme park company, Riverside Investment Group, a tourism and real estate developer, and Turner Asia Pacific, have announced a new partnership that will bring original, branded experiences to Six Flags parks throughout China. The first addition – a thrilling, new Tuzki-branded dark ride – is joining the lineup of world class, […]
VR City has partnered with Sport Relief, the biennial fundraising campaign for Comic Relief, to produce an immersive 360-degree film bringing to life one of the issues being tackled by the charity’s funding. The collaboration aims to raise awareness of life-saving malaria treatments by taking viewers on the journey of a mosquito as it spreads […]
The European Commission is proposing a 3 per cent tax on turnover for tech companies as an answer to their perceived profit tax avoidance through choosing low tax countries for all their billing no matter where the sale. The EC estimates the move would raise over €5 billion a year. The proposal would affect firms […]
US consumers’ appetite for streaming video continues to grow, and they have no qualms shelling out cash for original content, according to Deloitte’s 12th edition of the Digital Media Trends Survey. The report found that 55 per cent of US households now subscribe to at least one video streaming service, a 450 per cent increase […]
In parallel to their distribution on IPTV boxes, French broadcaster SFR has announced its intention to extend the broadcast of its 14 channels on satellite and OTT. Alain Weill, Senior VP at Altice Group (owner of SFR) and Altice Media CEO, made the announcement at a press conference in Paris. SFR stressed that content remained […]
Popular pirate content website 123Movies, which also operated as GoMovies, has confirmed plans to shut down.The streaming site, which offers users a range paid-for content for free, announced its imminent closure with a message on its homepage, saying it will cease operations at the end of the week. In its farewell message, 123Movies encouraged users […]
Telenor has entered into an agreement to sell its assets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to PPF Group for €2.8 billion (around NOK 27bn) on an enterprise value basis. The Board of Directors of Telenor intends to ask the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for authorisation to distribute a special dividend of NOK 4.40 per […]
RTL Group has announced that Cécile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of FremantleMedia, will leave the Group to take on a new challenge, she is expected to take a leadership role at YouTube EMEA. Bert Habets, CEO of RTL Group, says: “I would like to thank Cécile for her extraordinary creative and commercial achievements at FremantleMedia. She has […]
Multichannel broadcasters invested an average of £15.6 million per year over the last three years in new UK children’s programming, representing one of the biggest sources of investment in homegrown kids content outside the BBC, according to new research. However, proposals to change the regulation of TV channel numbers could damage multichannel broadcasters’ ability to […]