High speed fibre broadband is to be piloted in six regions of the UK. The first stage of a £200 million (€218m) publicly funded scheme to help bring the UK’s fastest and most reliable broadband to businesses, schools and hospitals kicked off Sunday 3rd September with the launch of six local pilots. The projects will […]
A licensee has been found guilty of three offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Jagdish Karsan Devshi of the Moonbay Restaurant in Wembley, London, entered a plea of guilty to the charges and was fined £1,026 (€1,118) per offence and ordered […]
Star India has agreed to pay 163.48 billion rupees (€2.15bn) for the TV and digital rights to Indian Premier League for the next five years, the country’s cricket board has confirmed. Sony, the only other bidder for the TV rights, offered 110.5 billion rupees but lost out to Star’s consolidated offer for the global rights […]
Following the redesign of the BT TV YouView user experience earlier this year, BT has this week launched a new look BT TV app for smartphones and tablets. The BT Player experience is also available for laptops. The new app is available to all BT TV customers at no extra cost and lets them watch […]
TV manufacturer Sharp used Berlin’s giant IFA consumer electronics show to introduce an 8K set, heralded as “the world’s first 8K-4K Direct-view LCD”. Labelled as the top-end of its Aquos range, the screen is capable of showing content in 8K, four-times the resolution of 4K, and using 7680 x 4320 pixels. Yoshihiro Hashimoto, managing executive […]
Alphasat Communications Ltd (of Ireland), which supplied broadband by satellite to customers in rural Ireland, has appointed liquidators. Alphasat, which was headed by former Irish football star turned pundit Niall Quinn, had a shareholder deficit of some €2.8 million, and creditors (in October 2015 when the last set of accounts were filed) of €3.5 million. […]
Channel 5’s VoD catch-up service, My5, has agreed a deal with A+E Networks UK to offer content from the Blaze channel. My5 is home to the most popular programming from across the Channel 5 network of channels – 5STAR, 5USA and Spike. These offer programme titles such as Blind Date, Big Brother and Lip Sync […]
SFR Sport 4K is now available for the first time in UHD via the SFR Sport app, available on all Samsung Tizen TVs. Samsung Smart TVs now allow live content to be streamed OTT in UHD without a set-top box or additional equipment. According to Samsung, the move with SFR Sport marks a new television […]
Israel’s official Government Press Office has decided against revoking the accreditation of a local journalist, Elias Karram, who worked for the Al Jazeera news broadcaster. The decision permits Karram to continue filing for Al Jazeera at least for the next 6 months, and somewhat defuses the tensions between Al Jazeera and the Israeli media authorities. […]
Ericsson has signed a global metadata distribution agreement with IMDb, the world’s most popular source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Ericsson will integrate IMDb’s metadata, including ratings and rankings, into its content discovery ecosystem and will become the reseller and integrator of these data sources to service providers worldwide. Steve Nylund, Head of Broadcast […]