Ginx Esports TV has agreed a channel carriage deal with Sky Italia. This marks the fourth launch for Ginx Esports TV in recent months coming on the back of carriage deals in Northern and Southern Europe and at a time of continued expansion in the eSports world. Michiel Bakker, CEO of Ginx Esports TV, commented: […]
ESPN Player will bring full coverage of the 2017/18 NCAA Basketball season to fans in EMEA. The live and on-demand sports streaming service will give subscribers the opportunity to watch more than 700 top college basketball games on computers, tablets and mobile devices. ESPN Player mobile apps on iOS & Android will provide fans with […]
Spaceplane developer XCOR Aerospace has filed for bankruptcy. XCOR operated from the Mojave Desert in California (although officially is headquartered in Midland, Texas) where it has spent the best part of 20 years developing rocket engines and a sub-orbital ‘space plane’. The company’s plan was to use an airstrip at Midland to fly its 2-person […]
James and Lachlan Murdoch, speaking on 21st Century Fox’s Q1 2018 Earnings Call, have played down the notion that they were seeking to sell parts of their business to Disney, suggesting instead that Fox had the required scale, with completion of its planned acquisition of Sky likely in 2018. Lachlan Murdoch, co-executive chairman of 21st […]
The proposed sale of Time Warner to AT&T was thrown an unexpected curve ball November 8th when the US Department of Justice (DoJ), in its report on the deal, said that it would block the $85 billion scheme unless it sells off CNN. The DoJ is understood to have said that AT&T would either have […]
More than half of TV consumers say their current favourite show comes from an online TV platform, according to new study from Hub Entertainment Research. Hub’s annual Conquering Content study tracks how TV consumers discover, choose, and watch content. For the first time since tracking began in 2014, viewers are now more likely to say […]
Ericsson is renaming its Broadcast and Media Services business to Red Bee Media, the former name of the one-time BBC Broadcast unit, effective immediately. The Red Bee Media name and brand identity will apply to all of Ericsson’s Broadcast and Media Services businesses worldwide. As part of this change Red Bee Media is now an […]
Streaming service Rakuten TV has launched its offer on 4K HDR (High Dynamic Range) for Smart TVs. Over 100 titles will be available, including 2017 hits Transformers: The Last Knight, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Baby Driver and Baywatch among others. Users of Samsung Tizen UHD HDR TV sets will have a 4K HDR app in their devices […]
Parks Associates has released its list of the top 10 subscription OTT video services in the US market in 2017, based on number of subscribers. Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu continue to hold the top three slots while HBO Now made a significant move into the top five. Netflix Amazon Video Hulu MLB.TV HBO Now Starz […]
Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox News presenter, had a clause in his last contract that meant he could not be fired over harassment allegations unless they were proved in court. Jacques Nasser, an independent director of Fox talked about the clause during a hearing with the Competition and Markets Authority in its investigation into 21st […]