In its latest Global Television Demand Report, Parrot Analytics, the television data analytics firm, focused on measuring global demand for content, features a four-country audience study focused on consumers’ propensity to subscribe to streaming video services in Brazil, Italy, the US and the UK. Parrot Analytics investigated consumers’ willingness to subscribe to up to four […]
21st Century Fox is telling shareholders that Comcast’s bid holds a higher risk of being delayed or denied by antitrust regulators than the bid from Walt Disney that Fox’s board has endorsed. Fox said that its board and its law firm concluded “a strategic transaction with Comcast continued to carry higher regulatory risk leading to […]
Spanish TV group Mediapro has registered the VAR brand to provide the service throughout Europe. The company has received the green light from the Intellectual Property Office to use the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) branding for ten years. Mediapro will be the technological provider to La Liga in Spain, and the national leagues in Mexico […]
Germany’s RTL has revealed its pay-TV stations RTL Crime, RTL Passion and RTL Living are being dropped by Sky Deutschland from July 17th after the companies were unable to reach a deal on prices going forward. The RTL Group said it regretted that these channels would no longer be available with Sky “despite intense efforts”, […]
Spotify has hired Dawn Ostroff as chief content officer, signalling the music service’s wider ambitions in media. Ostroff was president of Condé Nast Entertainment, the publisher’s video studio. She will report to Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, and be responsible for its content and editorial divisions, as well as the creator services side of Spotify’s […]
Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has revealed findings from its market study, Asia OTT Television Research Report 2018, in partnership with YouGov, an international data and analytics group, and conducted a study that polled 5,000 participants across Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. The purpose of study was to discover how […]
Grupo de Antipirateria of the Policia Nacional in Spain, led by Inspector Marlene Álvarez Vicente, has become the inaugural winner of an award from the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) for a successful initiative to tackle audiovisual piracy. The award, presented at this year’s Europol Intellectual Property Crime conference in Budapest, recognised the Grupo de Antipirateria’s […]
ITV has announced that Ian Griffiths, Chief Operating Officer and Group Finance Director, has advised the Board of his intention to retire from the UK commercial broadcaster in the next 12 months. The search for his successor will now commence and Griffiths will continue with his existing responsibilities until a successor has been appointed. Griffiths started […]
Smartphones continue their meteoric popularity and are now owned in 87 per cent of US homes, second only to televisions at 96 per cent ownership, according to Consumer Technology Association (CTA) research. CTA’s 20th Consumer Technology Ownership and Market Potential Study also shows that for the first time, the top three most-frequently owned tech products […]
A satellite-focussed panel at CASBAA in Singapore heard a slew of critics grumble at the Intelsat and SES joint proposal for the use of some C-band frequencies over the US. Roger Tong, CEO at AsiaSat, was highly critical, saying that the proposal was selling out the industry. Another vocal critic was Huang Baoshand EVP at […]