The RSCC and the European company Chronosat have signed a contract stipulating an increased use of RSCC’s Express-AM7 satellite capacity by the European company. The contract was signed at AfricaCom 2017. Yuri Prokhorov, the RSCC General Director, noted: “RSCC has a long record of successful operations in the Middle East and Europe, where we have […]
Reports have emerged that 21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Walt Disney Co. Any such deal would not involve all of Fox’s assets, according to people with knowledge of the talks. It is understood that Fox believes that a more tightly-focused group of properties around news and […]
The semiconductor sector looks set for further consolidation with the confirmation that Broadcom, a leading semiconductor device supplier to the wired, wireless, enterprise storage, and industrial end markets, proposes to acquire all of the outstanding shares of technology company Qualcomm for per share consideration of $70.00 in cash and stock in a transaction valued at […]
Findings from analyst house Juniper Research indicate that global consumer spend on digital content will reach $202 billion (€175bn) in 2018, up by 10 per cent on this year’s total of $184 billion. The research found that SVoD services will be a key driver of growth, with major OTT players such as Netflix and Amazon […]
The golden age of television is just getting started, according to Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content at Sky. Writing an Opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph, Davey says there has never been a better time for it. “But not according to the BBC. In a speech last week, Tony Hall, the BBC director-general, said the […]
Pay-TV only subscribers are decreasing in the US, Europe and Australia according to Ampere Analysis. Amongst those taking subscription services, pay TV only subscribers continue to decline, while SVoD only subscribers increase. More than one third of those taking subscription services have both pay-TV and SVoD. In all 11 countries stufes (Spain, Italy, France, Australia, […]
Ofcom has ruled that the Fox News shows Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight breached British broadcasting impartiality rules. The rulings referred to the Manchester Arena bombing in May and Donald Trump’s executive order in January that restricted travel to the US from seven majority-Muslim countries. Sky pulled Fox News from its platform in Britain in […]
TV takes up almost two thirds of media spend in high-budget, successful ad campaigns, according to a new WARC service. The Global Ad Trends Report is a monthly series of reports from WARC Data, a dedicated online service featuring current advertising benchmarks, data points, ad trends and user-generated expanded databases. The first report in the series focuses on […]
US consumers are spending more time with their digital devices than ever before, and that holds true while they’re already watching something else. eMarketer estimates 177.7 million adults will regularly use a second-screen device while watching TV this year, an increase of 5.1 per cent vs 2016. This is one one of the findings from […]
Amazon has uveiled the new Fire TV Stick Basic Edition. The device is initialy available for purchase in Canada Brazil, Italy, Mexico, and Spain. In addition, customers can set their default language as French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, or English. “Last year, we made Amazon Prime Video available to customers globally, and today, we’re […]