The UK parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has published its Report into the BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2017/18: Equal Pay at the BBC. It finds that: BBC is failing to live up to its duty under the Equality Act to advance equal opportunity for women Evidence suggests women working at the BBC […]
Licence fees across Europe have never been better value. On average, the annual licence fee is €0.35 per day – far cheaper than most European pay-TV subscriptions. This is one of the key findings in the annual Licence Fee report produced by the EBU’s Media Intelligence Service. Research shows that, on average, the annual licence […]
LG Electronics has reported consolidated sales of KRW 15.43 trillion (€12.06 billion) and operating profit of KRW 748.8 billion for the third quarter of 2018. Revenues were the highest among the three quarters this year, increasing 2.7 per cent from the second quarter with operating income up 45 per cent from the same period the previous […]
With 50 per cent of houses still connected to less than 100Mbps, a combination of solutions comparable to Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) is essential to efficiently provide the speeds required by end-users, according to NetComm Marketing and Communications Director Els Baert. Speaking on the final day of Broadband World Forum 2018, Baert said that although fibre assets […]
Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, has announced that the company has joined the Streaming Video Alliance, an industry association dedicated to helping solve the critical challenges facing the online video market. Alliance members, which represent the entire video streaming ecosystem, work […]
North American pay radio operator SiriusXM is on a roll. It added 298,000 net new subscribers during Q3, and reported a record $1.5 billion in revenues (up 6 per cent), and EBITDA of $589 million (up 7 per cent). SiriusXM finished the quarter with 33.7 million subcribers (representing annual and pre-paid customers). ARPU was $14.48. […]
According to the latest RAJAR data, a record 51.4 per cent of all BBC radio listening was on digital radio and platforms. During this latest quarter, BBC Radio 6 Music had a 2.52 million listeners (up from 2.44 million last quarter and up from 2.43 million last year, and the station’s second highest reach). Lauren […]
A series of comprehensive tests using In Flight Communications supplier Global Eagle, and with Canada-based Telesat’s Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Phase 1 satellite and its ANIK F3 geostationary satellite, provided the “shortest-ever connection time” for the round-trip from the aircraft to the associated ground equipment. A statement from technology provider Gilat Satellite Networks said that […]
QYOU Media has confirmed the launch of the Q India mobile app on the Google Play store. Featuring content from top local creators and talent, the direct-to-consumer app significantly expands Q India’s footprint within India, and to the additional tens of millions of expatriate fans of Indian-created content globally. Q India app, available globally through […]
Anevia, a provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, has been chosen by Com Net (CNI) to deliver cloud DVR and CDN services in the US as part of their hosted and managed OTT head-end. CNI is working with Minerva Networks to supply the hosted and managed video head-end for Minerva’s white label cloud video […]