Panasonic Avionics says it has now equipped almost 1800 commercial aircraft with its In Flight Entertainment (IFE), and has an order backlog of some 2200 aircraft still to be equipped. Panasonic has – up until now – struck deals with Intelsat, Intelsat, Eutelsat and Telesat for geostationary satellite-based delivery of its services. But that philosophy […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has announced the appointment of Juliet Walker as Chief Marketing Officer, effective immediately. In her new role, she will help diversify the company’s product and services portfolio, innovate into new territories and reinforce the Globecast brand within its various markets. She reports to Globecast CEO Philippe Bernard. “We’re […]
AdScribe, a subsidiary of Zenterio, has announced that Norwegian pay-TV operator RiksTV has deployed its audience measurement and analytics tool AdScribe Audience to measure live TV; time-shift TV; catch-up TV; and VoD content viewed on connected set-top boxes, Android apps and iOS devices. Running in the cloud, Audience collects data about what is being watched, […]
Findings from the Ericsson ConsumerLab study suggest that linear and VoD viewing will be almost equal in just three years, with 50 per cent of all viewing being done on a mobile screen, with half of this done on the smartphone alone. The eighth edition of Ericsson’s annual ConsumerLab TV and Media report details the […]
Spanish regulatory body Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) is looking into the TV advertising agreement between Mediaset, owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, among other channels, and Mediapro, owner of the football TV channel Gol TV, over a possible breach of free competition in the market. Both companies signed an agreement […]
The number of Italians using OTT services reached 19.1 million in June 2017, up by 2.9 million or 18 per cent on September 2016. This corresponds to 58 per cent of Italian internet users aged 16 years and over, according to a study on the online video content market in Italy by the EY consultancy. […]
TiVo COO Pete Thompson is joining Amazon as VP Alexa Voice Services. TiVo said CEO and president Tom Carson, who is also slated to retire, will assume the responsibilities while the company continues to search for a new CEO. Thompson was at TiVo for one year having joined to manage the product integration of the […]
OneWeb is a planned ‘mega- constellation’ of low-Earth orbiting satellites (at 1200 kms high), and designed to provide high-speed broadband to just about any point on the planet. It is backed financially by Virgin, Qualcomm, Japan’s SoftBank, Coca-Cola and Intelsat amongst others. Its first 10 prototype satellites are being built now in Toulouse, France, and […]
To badly paraphrase Archimedes: “Give me a leverage big enough, and I can move the world”, a sentiment that Ampere Analysis has identified as a key factor behind strategies from global media groups including Amazon, Altice, Netflix and Verizon – and to a lesser extent, players like Sky, ITV and Liberty Global. These groups have […]
SVoD subscriptions are forecast to reach 546 million by 2022; double the 263 million recorded by end-2016, according to Digital TV Research’s Global SVoD Forecasts report, which covers 621 platforms in 138 countries. Subscriptions in the Asia Pacific region will overtake North America in 2017. Asia Pacific will account for 43 per cent of global […]