Qatar-based beIN Media Group is gaining increasing support from major sport and entertainment broadcasters in the US for its anti-piracy drive against beoutQ. beoutQ fills 10 channels of mostly beIN Media pirated content. beIN Media is also asking US authorities to place Saudi Arabia on its important ‘priority watch list’ because of the Kingdom’s alleged […]
Members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy – have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Central California (Western Division) against OmniverseOne World Television, Inc. and its owner, Jason M. DeMeo, for violating […]
Any risks posed by Huawei as a major supplier in UK telecoms can be managed, cyber-security chiefs have determined. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre’s decision contrasts with US efforts to persuade its allies to ban the firm from 5G communications networks. The Chinese government is accused of using Huawei as a proxy so it […]
South Africa’s perilous media sector is again making news. Now it is ICASA, the media and telecoms regulator, which is in the headlines. The chairman of ICASA, Rubben Mohlaloga has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fraud and money laundering – and it seems that despite the ruling ICASA cannot relieve him of […]
Viavi Solutions has revealed new industry data demonstrating just how quickly 5G networks are rolling out worldwide, with 55 commercial 5G networks expected to be live before the start of 2020 — the year that 5G was originally expected to debut. As an indicator of the pace of commercialisation, Viavi has renamed this report – […]
Eleven Sports’ OTT streaming service has launched apps for Amazon’s Fire TV Stick and Android TVs in the UK. Each app is optimised for TV and will offer Eleven’s content in HD resolution. Previously Eleven Sports was only available via Google Chromecast. The Eleven Sports apps are available to download immediately from the Google Play […]
A research study conducted by Texas Tech University has revealed that YouTube is the biggest culprit in the rise of “Flat Earthers” – a growing community of people who worryingly believe that the Earth is flat. The researchers interviewed 30 attendees at a Flat Earthers annual conference in North Carolina, US – and all but […]
FOX News Digital delivered a record-breaking January with the highest month of multi-platform unique audience since its inception, securing a multi-platform unique audience of 105.7 million, a 16 per cent increase from January 2018, according to comScore. This marks the first month ever that FOX News Digital surpassed 100 million multi-platform uniques. In multi-platform total […]
SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, is appointing Sophie Knight as Director, Platform Services for the UK. Reporting to Ed Wale, Managing Director for SpotX in the UK, Knight will work with media owners to develop strategic account plans for key publishers to optimise their returns from the SpotX platform. This will include […]