Netflix has been hit with criticism by an anti-smoking organisation, which has released research claiming its original programmes have more than twice as many scenes featuring smoking characters as its rivals. Truth Initiative, a US public health organisation, identified the 14 most popular shows with viewers aged 15-24 across broadcast and cable providers. It found […]
MY-HD, a DTH service broadcasting over the MENA region, has changed its CEO again. New boss is board member and co-founder of the service Carmen Chen, who takes over from Samir Safir, who replaced Cliff Nelson, a former senior staffer at Dubai-based Showtime, and who left the broadcaster in July 2015. My-HD’s core offering is […]
BT is creating more than 1,300 apprenticeship and graduate jobs as the company aims to recruit the best tech talent available in the UK. The drive for apprentices and graduates will see BT employ people in a number of different roles, from TV production, engineering, customer service, and in cyber-security to help tackle the growing […]
Yahlive, a satellite joint-venture between Al Yah/Yahsat of Abu Dhabi and Luxembourg-based SES, claims it now reaches 62 million Farsi-speakers to its broadcast beams over the Middle East and Asia region. The viewing data comes from a study carried out by Ipsos Connect. Yahlive is now carrying 107 exclusive free-to-air Farsi channels, out of a […]
Skyline Communications, a global player in end-to-end multi-vendor network management, orchestration and OSS software solutions, has been selected by Sky to provide the new overarching Operations Management System (OMS) for their UK operation. Skyline is delivering the DataMiner system to help Sky seamlessly manage the transition of contribution feeds to a self-managed IP network. “The […]
Thaicom, one of Asia’s leading satellite operators, has announced the signature of a multi-year contract with anal+ Overseas Myanmar, the Canal+ subsidiary in charge of broadcasting internationally and in Myanmar. Canal+ is part of Vivendi SA, one of the largest media companies based in France. The contract is part of Canal+ Myanmar’s launch of a […]
GINX Esports TV, the world’s largest eSports TV network, has launched on HOT Telecommunications in Israel. GINX Esports TV features tournaments together with news, lifestyle, documentary and presenter-led live shows filmed and produced at its London headquarters. This represents the third launch in Israel for the 24/7 linear channel and comes at a time of […]
Digital pay-TV subscriptions around the world, including cable, satellite and IPTV, exceeded one billion for the first time in 2017. This global growth comes despite the continued uptake of OTT subscription video services, like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, which added more than three times the number of subscriptions than pay-TV last year, according […]
Following the November 2017 announcement by the BBC that it was reinventing its free-to-air coverage of live sports, the corporation is to increase its coverage of tennis, women’s football, swimming and basketball, as well as broadcasting coverage from more than 30 additional sports or sporting events every year, revealing further details of its plan to […]
Findings from research carried out by CDN technology specialist Edgeware and international data and analytics group YouGov indicate that billons lost to online piracy could be halved by putting in place anti-piracy measures. Edgeware’s study – TV piracy research – watermarking could save billions of dollars a year – found that 50 per cent of […]