The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has published its predictions for the key trends at CES 2018, enabled by global communications and IT services company CenturyLink. The hot topics identified by the DPP broadly fall under three environments: home, car and the public realm. “The approach to technology over the last few years has been a […]
Russian premium pay-TV and SVoD platform AMEDIA TV and HBO have signed a new multi-year deal providing AMEDIA TV with the right to broadcast first-run HBO shows and HBO’s entire programming library, exclusively in Russia. The deal makes AMEDIA Premium HD, consisting of AMEDIA Premium and AMEDIA Hit channels and SVoD service Amediateka, the HOME OF HBO beginning in July 2017. All new HBO […]
The BBC will seek to fill the TV scheduling void left by Glastonbury festival’s gap year in 2018 by holding its own music event across the UK. The corporation will hold the ‘Biggest Weekend’ festival at four sites in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with 175,000 tickets available to the public. The one-off festival […]
Videa, a supply-side platform for automated TV advertising, has announced its live integration with Strata, a leader in advertising software. As part of the integration, media buyers can now easily purchase Videa’s inventory of full-schedule, local television advertising, while streamlining their buying workflow through Strata’s software. Videa’s inventory includes a growing number of more than […]
The ATP and ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP World Tour, have jointly announced the launch of their own digital radio channel, ATP Tennis Radio – a live, free-to-air audio platform for tennis fans to enjoy worldwide. The 24/7 digital radio offering is hosted by Gigi Salmon, joined by a team of acclaimed […]
Alticast has strengthened its EMEA presence with the appointments of Brian Koo as Managing Director of Europe and of Frederic Gounard as Vice President, Sales, Europe. Koo and Gounard bring almost 30 years of experience and contacts within the EMEA television community to their new positions. The two executives will have responsibility for ensuring that […]
The return of Game of Thrones last week smashed previous viewing figure records for HBO in the US, where it has been watched more than 16 million times through official channels. However, that figure pales into comparison when compared to the number of people who watched it illegally. According to data from analytics firm MUSO,
July 22nd saw beIN Sports channels return to screens in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The channels have been dark since the June 5th diplomatic dispute started between the UAE and Saudi Arabia with fellow-Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera. “We would like to advise that starting 22 July 2017, the BeIN package will be available to customers and […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 64 per cent of all US households have a subscription video on-Demand (SVoD) service from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and/or Hulu – up from 47 per cent in 2014. Among those who have an SVoD service, 51 per cent have more than one of these services – […]
Intelsat wants US the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block – at least for the time being – SpaceX’s plan to girdle the Earth with more than 4400 mini-satellites. Intelsat has said to the FCC that the SpaceX scheme needs more study in order to check that its satellites would not interfere with those already […]