Motorvision Group has launched its car and motorsports channel on six additional TV platforms in Europe, Africa and Asia. Thanks to newly signed deals, car enthusiasts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Maledives and Phillipines can now watch Motorvision TV for the first time ever, while Australian and Dutch viewers have even more options to get the channel. […]
PCCW has announced that Now TV and ViuTV will exclusively broadcast the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia in Hong Kong. Now TV will be exclusively broadcasting all 64 matches live, while ViuTV will broadcast 19 selected matches live, including the opening match, the two semi-finals and the final. Janice Lee, Managing Director of PCCW Media […]
Electric street racing series Formula E has teamed-up with motorsport media brand Motorsport Network to bring fans even more insight and behind the scenes access to the category, with additional news and video content shown throughout the season. Motorsport.com will showcase an enhanced news coverage package for the FIA Formula E Championship across its network […]
Musical.ly has partnered with Zoomin.TV, the online video publisher, to diversify its content and enrich the consumption experience for its youth-focused audience. For Zoomin.TV, the collaboration means the opportunity to grow their reach and speak to a highly engaged audience of ‘super fans’. Zoomin.TV content spans 7 magazines and speaks to this younger audience through […]
The BBC is to merge BBC Studios and BBC Worldwide to form a single commercial organisation, to be called BBC Studios, suggesting that at a time of an increasingly competitive and global market for production and distribution, the new organisational structure will bring the BBC into line with the rest of the industry, integrating programme production, […]
Ericsson forecasts there will be 1 billion 5G subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by 2023. This prediction is among the key statistics presented in the November edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report. Expected to be deployed first in dense urban areas, 5G will cover over 20 per cent of the world’s population by the end of […]
AT&T and Time Warner have submitted a joint court filing arguing that their proposed $85.4 billion (€78.5bn) merger is “pro-competitive” and “pro-consumer”, seeking to refute claims by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) that the deal breaks antitrust law and would substantially lessen competition, resulting in higher prices and less innovation for millions of Americans. […]
The future of residential pay-TV services will be wrought from an intensifying clash between virtual operators such as Sling TV and DirecTV Now, and traditional cable, satellite, and telco pay-TV providers according to a report from research and advisory firm The Diffusion Group (TDG). Unfortunately, the battle will be for a larger slice of a […]
According to digital experience specialist Adobe, the adoption by TV Everywhere (TVE) providers of single sign-on (SSO) functionality has boosted TVE consumption significantly. Writing in the Adobe Blog, Blake Elmquist, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Adobe Primetime, says that the multiscreen TV platform developed single sign-on (SSO) functionality for TVE to make it easier for […]