The powerful South African Gupta family is selling its media interests including The New Age newspaper and ANN7 television news station. The buyer, Mzwanele ‘Jimmy’ Manyi, is a long-standing supporter of President Jacob Zuma and was once a government spokesman. ANN7 was launched in 2013 with 35 percent backing from India’s Essel Group (itself backed […]
Netgem, the connected entertainment solution provider for telecom operators, has added integration of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service to its cloud-based entertainment software provider. The integration means a new Netgem-developed Alexa skill, which is now available for operators across Netgem’s global footprint to integrate with their service offerings, will enrich the viewer experience and make finding […]
Arianespace is preparing for its 9th launch this year and is busy readying two satellites to be carried into space on September 5th. Intelsat 37e is the heavier of the two spacecraft. Built by Boeing using one of its 702MP platforms it is the latest in the ‘Epic’ series of high-performance satellites, and the fourth […]
The National Football League (NFL) and Tencent have announced a three-year partnership to make Tencent Sports the exclusive live digital streaming media partner of the NFL in China. Under terms of the agreement, Tencent will air live and on-demand select preseason games, all Thursday Night Football, Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football games, as […]
Intelsat has announced Brazilian regional television broadcaster TV Clube as the latest television programmer to move their HD channel distribution to Intelsat 14, a new HD video neighbourhood expanding Intelsat’s leading distribution presence in the region. Under a new, multi-year agreement, TV Clube, a Rede Record TV affiliate, will use services on Intelsat 14 to […]
Nevion, a provider of virtualised media production solutions, has provided a range of its products to Media Broadcast, Germany’s largest service provider for the broadcast and media industry, for its new broadcast distribution network, ARD-Disnet. This is designed to handle DVB-T, DVB-T2 HD, FM, DAB+ as well as generic data transport. Media Broadcast was commissioned […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom is facing judicial review over its ruling that Sky would remain ‘fit and proper’ to hold a UK broadcasting licence should the 21st Century Fox bid for the outstanding shares it does not already own be successful. Hausfeld, the law firm representing advocacy group Avaaz, has issued a ‘letter before claim’ to […]
4K content is being used as a key weapon to win subscribers as the pay-TV war rages on in Spain. Accordingly, both Vodafone and Orange will allow their subscribers to watch all football involving Barcelona and Real Madrid in 4K. Orange subscribers will be able to watch the matches through Orange TV Futbol (channel 72) […]
Pan-European broadcaster Sky has invested a further £1 million (€1.09m) in TRX, the online deal-making tool for TV rights, following its initial investment of £1 million in August 2016. This latest investment brings TRX’s total funds raised to date to £10 million. As well as Sky, investors include the Channel Four Growth Fund, angel investors […]