Intelsat is again talking to the market about raising another $700 million of borrowings. The borrowings are set to be repaid on (or before) 2024, and are priced at 8.5 per cent and to be sold to investors at an issue price of 100.75 per cent of par plus accrued interest from September 19th 2018. […]
ESPN+ and ESPN have reached an exclusive, multi-year rights agreement in the United States for Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana – the two premier Cup competitions in Italian football. Coppa Italia is Italy’s single-elimination domestic Cup competition, and Supercoppa Italiana is the annual matchup between the winner of Italy’s Serie A versus the Coppa […]
When World Wrestling Entertainment launched its WWE Network in 2014, the SVoD service only featured around 1,500 hours of on-demand content. Today, its library has over 10,000 hours of content, increasing 6x in size since launch, according to a report by Streaming Observer. The WWE Network began by streaming PPV events to subscribers for no […]
Amino, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, has secured a new contract to deliver an ’upcycling’ programme for T-Mobile Netherlands that will transform the operator’s installed base of legacy TV devices to meet the expectations of today’s connected consumer. T-Mobile will deploy AminoOS software, which allows already deployed devices to be ‘upcycled’ to deliver an upgraded TV experience – […]
Gracenote, a Nielsen company, has announced the availability of Studio System Projects, a new enterprise-level collaboration and project management platform designed to help TV networks, Hollywood studios and other content creators streamline the development process and deliver more commercially and critically successful entertainment offerings. This new suite of Web-based tools allows internal teams to efficiently manage the creation of TV shows and movies from story ideation all the way through […]
Air France has awarded its contract to equip its aircraft with In Flight Connectivity to the consortium of Global Eagle and Orange Business Services. With this deal, Air France will become the first airline in Europe to take full advantage of the Ku-band High Throughput satellite network. Orange and Global Eagle will deliver high-speed Internet, […]
UPC is adding the new UPC TV to its Happy Home portfolio. “We want to delight our customers. And so we took a step back from static television. UPC TV is not just television, it is an experience, because every customer can watch television how they want. Whether that is on the sofa in the […]
Tru Optik, the audience intelligence and data-management platform across OTT and connected TV (CTV), and SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, have announced the capability for publishers to pre-segment and validate audience-based inventory at scale to create targeted OTT and CTV campaigns. Powered by Tru Optik’s OTT Data Marketplace, publishers using SpotX’s Audience […]
CSI Sports’ 24/7 live sports channel, Fight Sports, has agreed a carriage deal with Orange, the Spanish pay TV operator. Fight Sports is also being carried on the Orange platform in France. The programming line-up includes weekly LIVE premium events with world title boxing events (WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO), having recently broadcast the rematch […]
On the heels of its release of Cablecast Screenweave for bringing community TV content to OTT devices, Tightrope Media Systems has unveiled version 6.5 of the Cablecast Community Media platform. Designed to help PEG broadcasters improve their online viewer experiences, the new update elevates the quality of VoD clips while providing new tools to help […]