OneWeb Satellites will start building its first satellites from its brand-new Florida production facility in January. The Exploration Park factory, itself a joint-venture between OneWeb and Airbus Defence & Space, will build a target 900 satellites at the initial rate of 2 a day for the $6 billion mega-constellation. OneWeb has two production lines at […]
Nintendo is set to regain its leadership position in video game consoles for the first time since 2009, according to the latest projections from Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices service. The report, Global Game Console Market Forecast, predicts that Nintendo will sell 17.3 million Switch consoles worldwide in 2019, while Sony will sell 17.1 million […]
Russian news agency TASS is reporting that Roscosmos, the country’s space agency, is involved in alleged “systematic legal violations”, and with 16 criminal cases now under way. Alexander Kurennoy, from Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, is quoted by TASS saying: “During the period between 2017 and the first six months of 2018, documents on the activities […]
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has announced that global engineering and electronics company Huawei has joined the alliance as a full member. A major player in the world’s digital transformation, Huawei is a provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure platforms and smart devices. “As a nonprofit trade alliance, AIMS plays a […]
An Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled to launch two satellites on December 4th subject to weather conditions. India’s much-delayed GSAT-11 is one of the satellites. India’s satellite should have been launched in May but was recalled from its launch site in French Guiana on April 25th, and an expected launch date of May 25th scrubbed. […]
Stefan Lederer, CEO and Co-Founder of Bitmovin, the online video technology specialist, has shared his Top 3 predictions for how content owners will be using technology to enhance and differentiate consumer experiences in 2019, “There’s no doubt that 2019 will see even more live sports being streamed to fans, more studios launching direct-to-consumer online streaming […]
SPI International has extended their partnership with Telekom Serbia by including VoD services on their platform. SPI also cooperates with Telekom Serbia’s daughter companies – Mtel Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Mtel Montenegro. With the VoD platform, 200 thematic titles and series, and 150 localised movies are now available to the viewers in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, and […]
Cinedigm, in conjunction with global distribution company JungoTV, has announced a deal to launch the Company’s fandom-focused digital-first channel, CONtv, on the mobile platform OONA Indonesia TV. CONtv will be available as an AVoD offering, in a distribution deal that gives OONA TV’s 185 million users free access to the channel’s extensive library of curated […]
US consumer data from research firm Parks Associates finds the average NPS (net promoter score) for traditional pay-TV providers in Q3 2018 is -19. The study – 360 Deep Dive: Churn and Retention in Pay TV – notes this NPS represent a slight drop for pay-TV providers, which scored -15 in Q1 2018, although some […]
LOVEStv, the joint FTA HbbTV platform sponsored by Spanish broadcasters Atresmedia, Mediaset and RTVE, has started streaming and aims to be integrated into over 2 million TV sets by year end. The platform is available on TV sets equipped with HbbTV 1.5 technology, through the main manufacturers LG, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and Vestelde. The […]