Asia Broadcast Satellite’s co-founder and CEO Tom Choi has stepped down from the company. Choi said it was time for him to step and move on to other interesting projects, but that he would continue to sit on the company’s Board of Directors and he remains a significant investor in the company. Choi initially released […]
The EBU has secured the rights to the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games thanks to a new deal with the International Paralympics Committee (IPC). The EBU has managed the rights to the Paralympic Games for a number of years, working with the Organising Committees until 2012 and with the IPC […]
To mark 100 days to go until the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, Discovery Communications and Eurosport have unveiled their plans to transform the Olympic Winter Games viewing experience. First fully digital Games for Europe Eurosport says it will deliver the “first fully digital Games for Europe”, live and on-demand coverage across all screens in […]
Spot X talks about how it has evolved from a facilitator of programmatic TV to focus on the economics of the advertising market working with content owners to develop portfolios of markets and with brands to dynamically engage with those markets. Watch the interview with Randy Cooke, VP Enterprise Solutions HERE
India’s DTH operators are beginning to make some appealing offers to subscribers to Reliance’s DTH customers. Reliance is closing its DTH service on November 18th following on from the ending of its transmissions. TataSky and Dish TV are both pitching offers to Reliance Big TV customers, in essence swapping out Reliance set-top boxes and dishes […]
This evening (October 30th) SpaceX will launch KoreaSat 5A, its 16th launch of the year to date, and all executed with flawless precision from the launch pad to the floating barges when the Falcon 9’s 1st stages were due for recovery. The launch window opens at 3.34pm (Florida time) from the Kennedy Space Centre. However, […]
Envivo has revealed plans to launch a new OTT streaming video service, nVIVO TV, powered by the Cisco Infinite Video Platform, to offer its subscribers access to more ‘Nollywood’ and international video content on more devices throughout Africa. Envivo will use a mix of Cisco OTT video solutions including the Cisco Infinite Video Platform, a […]
BT has announced the opening of a new Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Eschborn, near Frankfurt, to further strengthen protection against ever increasing cyber threats. The SOC will monitor BT’s own assets as well as the networks and IT infrastructure of BT customers on a 24/7 basis. Using a range of advanced tools, BT’s cyber […]
TV ratings behemoth The Walking Dead returned last week with the first episode of its eighth season, but fans did not return in the same droves they did for the Season 7 opener. While the Season 7 premiere drew 8.4 million in the 18-39 key demographic and 17.03 million overall, the season 8 premiere drew […]
A+E Networks has appointed TV and film industry veteran Richard Tulk-Hart as Managing Director, International Content Sales. Based in London, Tulk-Hart will manage all of A+E Networks’ content distribution and format licensing activities outside the US. Working with the company’s sales teams around the world, he will oversee a staff based in Korea, London, Los […]