The current series of Taskmaster, Avalon’s award-winning and critically-acclaimed series on UKTV’s Dave, has eclipsed all previous series. The average Total Consumption per episode of series seven so far has reached 1.44 million, up 7 per cent on the last series, and this figure is set to rise once complete 28 day data has been […]
To date, ABC’s coverage of the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 on the ABC main channel and ABC NEWS has reached 3.9 million people in Australia across the 5 Capital Cities, representing 23 per cent of the metro population. Michael Mason, Director- Regional and Local, said, “Australians have connected strongly with the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 […]
BBC Studios has announced a content deal with myVideo that will give over 4.5 million Taiwanese viewers access to more than 200 hours of premium BBC dramas including the latest series of Luther and Doctor Who. myVideo is an OTT service owned by Taiwan Mobile, a leading telecommunications company in Taiwan offering quadplay services – […]
ESPN Player will bring full coverage of the 2018/19 NCAA Basketball season to fans in EMEA. The live and on-demand sports streaming service will give subscribers the opportunity to watch more than 2,000 top college basketball games on computers, tablets and mobile devices. The app also allows fans to stream content to a big screen […]
WarnerMedia is to close FilmStruck, its Turner unit’s first direct-to-consumer product, initially launched in the US in October 2016. The SVoD service, developed and managed by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in collaboration with the Criterion Collection, features a library of films comprised of an eclectic mix of contemporary and classic art house, indie, foreign and […]
Synamedia, the renamed NDS division that was acquired by Cisco, is back in independent hands. Financed by global investment firm Permira, the buyout from Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions, has completed. Financial terms of the deal were not released. Synamedia’s portfolio of over 200 pay-TV and media customers includes AT&T, Astro, beIN, Bharti Airtel, […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered a range of agencies to work on developing what he describes as a “balanced, forward-looking, flexible, and sustainable approach to spectrum management” as part of his desire for America be first in fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies. In a Presidential Memorandum, he notes that in the growing digital economy, wireless […]
The Spanish Guardia Civil has arrested three people in Alicante, east of Spain, for illegally distributing pay-TV channels to around 500 foreigners, mostly British citizens, in the village of Formentera del Segura. The criminals tentatively earned around €450,000 from the operation, receiving between €500 and €3,000 a week from customers – at a loss of […]
This year’s record $25 billion games deals over just 9 months could mean we’ve hit the top of the market, as detailed in Digi-Capital’s new Games Report Q4 2018. Last time this happened, games investment and M&A plunged into a games deals ice age at the lowest level in a decade. The games deals cycle has […]
Jan David Frouman, Chairman & CEO of Red Arrow Studios, and a member of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE’s Executive Board, is leaving both posts when his current contract concludes at the end of February 2019. After 15 years with ProSiebenSat.1. Frouman will be succeeded by James Baker, who has been appointed President & COO of Red […]