Vubiquity has agreed a deal with cellular operator Cell C, to provide new and exclusive content and entertainment services throughout South Africa. The deal encompasses a substantial linear channel entertainment bundle provided to Cell C via Vubiquity and their partners. The deal also covers the licensing and distribution of VoD covering SVoD, TVoD and the […]
UPC has completed a full takeover of the cable network in the old town of the municipality of Mellingen in the canton of Aargau. A large part of the network infrastructure in the municipality of Mellingen was already owned by UPC. Some 300 residents who already use the UPC services will also be able to […]
UK transmission and TV facilities company Arqiva has postponed its planned Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the London stock market. The decision was unexpected, and could indicate that Arqiva is in negotiation for a trade sale, which was its initial plan. The IPO was expected to raise some £6 billion (€6.72bn) in what would have been the […]
Broadband communications and video services provider Altice USA has unveiled Altice One, a new connectivity platform that it says reinvents the way consumers connect to the entertainment and content they want. According to Altice, Altice One provides a better, personalised and simple all-in-one video, broadband, WiFi and phone experience with new and enhanced features such […]
The BBC has announced plans to reinvent free-to-air sports broadcasting, with its biggest increase of live sport coverage in a generation. Over a thousand extra hours of live sport could be available for audiences to watch online every year through BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer. Sport fans can also personalise the service to make sure […]
The DTG, the UK’s collaboration centre for innovation in digital media technology, has published its D-Book 10, the industry-determined, next-generation, universally-deployed specification which supports future interactive services and enables the continuing transition towards HbbTV. Whereas D-Book 9 introduced HbbTV references for Freeview Play at the MHEG to HbbTV transition which included the introduction of support […]
Italy has made great strides in expanding fixed broadband coverage from 43.9 per cent in 2015 to 72.3 per cent in 2016, reducing the gap from the European average to just 3.7 percentage points. However, on the demand side, fibre accounted for only 3 per cent of total broadband subscribers in 2016, well below the […]
US ratings service Nielsen, which began measuring Netflix viewership in August, says some 15.8 million American viewers watched the first episode of Stranger Things season 2 by October 29th, its third day of release. That put it slightly ahead of the total for the season 8 premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead over its first-three-days […]
TiVo has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30th 2017. “TiVo executed well, making progress across all areas of our business and delivered solid financial results in the third quarter,” said Tom Carson, President and CEO of TiVo. Carson added, “We just launched our innovative voice search and the New TiVo Experience, […]
Sky Media has successfully broadcast the 10,000th ad campaign using its TV offering, Sky AdSmart, which launched in 2014 and gives advertisers the ability to target TV ad campaigns to specific audiences. Every two days, a brand that has lapsed or never advertised on TV before selects Sky AdSmart to reach its target audience in a […]