Star India has agreed to pay 163.48 billion rupees (€2.15bn) for the TV and digital rights to Indian Premier League for the next five years, the country’s cricket board has confirmed. Sony, the only other bidder for the TV rights, offered 110.5 billion rupees but lost out to Star’s consolidated offer for the global rights […]
Following the redesign of the BT TV YouView user experience earlier this year, BT has this week launched a new look BT TV app for smartphones and tablets. The BT Player experience is also available for laptops. The new app is available to all BT TV customers at no extra cost and lets them watch […]
TV manufacturer Sharp used Berlin’s giant IFA consumer electronics show to introduce an 8K set, heralded as “the world’s first 8K-4K Direct-view LCD”. Labelled as the top-end of its Aquos range, the screen is capable of showing content in 8K, four-times the resolution of 4K, and using 7680 x 4320 pixels. Yoshihiro Hashimoto, managing executive […]
Alphasat Communications Ltd (of Ireland), which supplied broadband by satellite to customers in rural Ireland, has appointed liquidators. Alphasat, which was headed by former Irish football star turned pundit Niall Quinn, had a shareholder deficit of some €2.8 million, and creditors (in October 2015 when the last set of accounts were filed) of €3.5 million. […]
Channel 5’s VoD catch-up service, My5, has agreed a deal with A+E Networks UK to offer content from the Blaze channel. My5 is home to the most popular programming from across the Channel 5 network of channels – 5STAR, 5USA and Spike. These offer programme titles such as Blind Date, Big Brother and Lip Sync […]
Israel’s official Government Press Office has decided against revoking the accreditation of a local journalist, Elias Karram, who worked for the Al Jazeera news broadcaster. The decision permits Karram to continue filing for Al Jazeera at least for the next 6 months, and somewhat defuses the tensions between Al Jazeera and the Israeli media authorities. […]
Ericsson has signed a global metadata distribution agreement with IMDb, the world’s most popular source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Ericsson will integrate IMDb’s metadata, including ratings and rankings, into its content discovery ecosystem and will become the reseller and integrator of these data sources to service providers worldwide. Steve Nylund, Head of Broadcast […]
Catalin Itu, formerly Vice President of Sales and Operations in UPC DTH, has been appointed to the role of Managing Director of UPC DTH. Itu has extensive operations, sales, marketing, brand development, distribution and management experience, gained both at Liberty Global and while holding positions in Orange Romania, Bosch Communications Romania and Astral Telecom. He […]
UFC, the mixed martial arts organisation, has announced a new digital partnership with combat sports network FITE TV, to broadcast the global brand’s Pay-Per-View events on its streaming platform to customers throughout the United States. The partnership launches on September 9th, in conjunction with UFC 215: Johnson vs. Borg, live from Rogers Place in Edmonton, […]
A new Smart TV app developed by Foxxum is set to be launched across all devices using a Foxxum TV Store, which includes products from Blaupunkt, Haier, Hisense, JTC, Medion, Metz, Orion, and Sharp in Germany. Magine TV allows the streaming of all well-known German TV channels, from public to private broadcasters and pay TV, […]