Ad—funded streaming service Pluto TV says it is dialling up the binge-watching experience on its UK offering. Adding to the recent success of Pluto TV’s Unsolved Mysteries pop-up channel, five new channels, all dedicated to long-standing fan favourites, are now available on the service. Additionally, thematic channels Pluto TV Comedy and Pluto TV Romance, as […]
BT Sport is now even easier to watch with the launch of a new app on Apple TV, Samsung Smart TVs, and Xbox. In time for the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds, the app is now available on these platforms to existing BT Sport customers at no extra charge. Initially allowing access to BT Sport […]
21st Century Fox reported a big increase in Q2 profits as a result of the sale of its Sky stake. As the company prepares to sell itself to Disney and spin off its broadcast, sports and news assets to ‘the new Fox’, it posted a 6 per cent increase in revenue to $8.5 billion (€7.47bn). […]
The Chinese government has completed a Uganda digital television project that will see more than 500 villages across Uganda access digital television. The project, code-named Access to Satellite TV for 10,000 African Villages, is among the 10 major programmes supported by China. Speaking at the handover ceremony, Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, said the […]
CBS Sports HQ, the US streaming sports news network available for free across digital platforms, set new records for daily, weekend and week-long viewership with its extensive line-up of live, original programming from Atlanta. Just ahead of its one-year anniversary, CBS Sports HQ set single-day records for unique viewers, with more than one million viewers […]
Spotify has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Gimlet Media, an independent producer of podcast content, and Anchor, a prominent company in podcast creation, publishing, and monetisation services. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. With these acquisitions, Spotify said it is positioned to become both the premier producer of podcasts and the leading platform […]
Arianespace’s flawless first launch of 2019 took two satellites into orbit on February 6th. It was the 103rd Ariane 5 mission. In the upper position of the rocket, a Saudi Arabian Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4, also called HS- 4/SGS-1, was a geostationary condosat for KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Saudi Arabia) […]
US multiplay operator RCN has confirmed its commercial launch of Ultra HD services through a partnership with satellite operator SES. RCN is featuring seven dedicated 4K channels from the North American SES Ultra HD Platform, which will be available on RCN’s Signature TV channel tier for new and existing customers. RCN’s initial 4K launch will […]
Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has announced its AMOS-7 communication satellite is broadcasting the Ukraine’s first ever 4K TV channel. Nashe Media Group’s #NASHE HDR channel is being broadcast throughout the entire country by Ukrainian operator UkrKosmos. Following on the new channel’s success, Nashe is planning a spring 2019 launch of a second […]