Following intervention by French broadcasting watchdog the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and the country’s Culture Minister, Canal+ reinstated during the course of the evening of Wednesday March 8th, its retransmission of free-to-air service TF1 which had been interrupted since the evening of Thursday March 1st following a carriage dispute between the pair. The reinstatement […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has published fresh analysis setting out the challenges facing the UK’s public service broadcasters in the face of greater online media consumption and global competition, suggesting that greater co-operation with pay-TV and online competitors may ensure that they remain globally competitive and relevant to UK audiences. The paper, Public service broadcasting […]
Mediapro has struck Spanish TV production deals with OTT platforms Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO, as well as DirecTV and Fox. The media group is launching TV Series Edha, a 13 episode drama, and also producing Fe de Etarras y Una y no más exclusively for Netflix and. It is also producing Six Dreams for […]
The Chilean Supreme Court has upheld a decision to penalise American giant telco AT&T a total of Chilean Pesos 2 billion ($2m) because its DirecTV subsidiary used “uncertified” set-top boxes in the country. The fine was originally levies by Chile’s energy & fuel supervisory body (Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustibles, SEC), and follows a fire […]
Sweety High, a digital media company for Gen Z girls, has released its first Gen Z Music Consumption & Spending Report, which reveals research around the preferences of the powerhouse cohort. According to the report, while YouTube ranks as the top platform for music discovery (75 per cent), more than half of respondents also cite Radio […]
Five days after Canal+ ended the retransmission of TF1’s free DTT channels on its platform, the viewership of the commercial broadcaster has continuously decreased. On March 6th, the TF1 daytime audience fell by 1.7 points compared to the previous week, while the average audience dropped 186,000 viewers, BFM Business analyses. Daily soap Demain nous appartient […]
Eutelsat is joining the LEO club of Low Earth Orbiting satellite-owners. Having earlier dismissed LEO satellites, it has now ordered a small nano-satellite to tap into expected growth in demand from Internet of Things (IoT) operators. The satellite’s manufacturer is Tyvak International SRL, a subsidiary of Terran Orbital Corporation, a leading aerospace provider of nanosatellite […]
Samsung Electronics, has launched its flagship line of 2018 QLED TVs and AV products at the 2018 First Look New York event at the American Stock Exchange building in Manhattan. The company unveiled its next generation of QLED TVs to about 1,000 attendees, and demonstrated new, improved features that enhance the TV-viewing experience like never […]
SES is developing a new breed of satellite for its fast-growing O3b division. Seven high-capacity mPOWER satellites are being built by Boeing and the first will be orbited in 2021. Each craft has the scalable ability to build to cover a land mass of some 400 million square kilometres with multiple terabits of capacity. At […]
Abu Dhabi-based TV and movie production facility ‘twofour54’ is building a new 300,000 sq m backlot and new studio development at Mina Zayed to expand those already in place at twofour54’s Yas Island base. “Following the success Abu Dhabi has achieved in attracting film and TV productions from Hollywood, Bollywood, and the Arab World, twofour54’s […]