Intelsat wants US the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block – at least for the time being – SpaceX’s plan to girdle the Earth with more than 4400 mini-satellites. Intelsat has said to the FCC that the SpaceX scheme needs more study in order to check that its satellites would not interfere with those already […]
Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has awarded a contract worth over €160,000 to Leadership Business Consulting for a study on expanding DTT in the country. The contract was signed after a restricted tender and based on prior qualification. According to the document, published on Portugal’s public procurement portal, the study must “take into account the […]
Orange Spain has launched a new set-top-box compatible with 4K and Netflix in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The new STB, branded WHD81, also allows subscribers to access to YouTube, the streaming service Rakuten TV and 4K content. The STB has a new interface with two USB ports to watch TV content with DTT functionality.
French broadcaster TF1 has reported a H1 current operating profit reached €107.6 million, an increase of €50.1 million year-on-year, including €30.7 million of savings arising from the lack of any major sporting events during the first half of 2017. The effects of the multi-channel strategy adopted from the back to school period in 2016 and […]
Indian business giant Mukesh Ambani who is chairman & MD of Reliance Industries, itself India’s second largest business, and India’s richest individual, used the company’s AGM to showcase a new smartphone, the advanced JioPhone which he says will permit users to view JioTV and Jio Cinema as well as make calls, and in the process, […]
MTG has completed the previously announced acquisition of 100 per cent of US games publisher and developer Kongregate Inc. for an Enterprise Value of $55 million (€47.2m). Jørgen Madsen Lindemann, MTG President and CEO: “Consumers now spend almost a third of their mobile device time playing games, and Kongregate is a great fit with our […]
MVNA (Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator) x-Mobility has agreed a partnership with TVPlayer. The deal means that x-Mobility has added TV streaming to its voice, text and data services for brands that wish to become mobile providers. TVPlayer enables viewers to watch the best free-to-air UK TV channels including BBC One, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 […]
Scripps Networks Interactive has announced the continued expansion of global home and lifestyle channel HGTV in South Korea. Immediately available, HGTV has launched in HD on KT olleh tv as the first-ever regional channel dedicated exclusively to the growing home and lifestyle category in Korea. “HGTV is highly regarded as the preeminent destination for home-related […]
Amazon’s first Indian Original Inside Edge broke multiple records in the first week of its launch. Since being added to the SVoD service on July 10th, it has become the most watched title on Amazon Prime Video, catching the imagination of a cricket and entertainment loving nation. It is the second best performing Original, with […]
RTL AdConnect, the international sales house of RTL Group, has signed an exclusive contract with StyleHaul’s men’s lifestyle network, Hauk. With this new partnership, RTL AdConnect wants to give international advertisers direct access to the sought-after target audience of men aged 16-34 years by offering powerful, innovative campaigns with influencers. Hauk, launched in May 2016 […]