QYOU Media, a curator of premium ‘best-of-web’ video for multiscreen distribution, has partnered with Caribbean telecommunications operator Flow to deliver curated short-form sports content via its network, Flow Sports. This is QYOU’s first deal in the Caribbean. Via Flow’s sports network, Flow Sports – which has become the region’s go-to platform for sporting content – QYOU […]
Based on its analysis of 138 countries, Digital TV Research estimated 254 million additional pay-TV subscribers (up by 35 per cent) between 2010 and 2016 to take the global total to 969 million. According to the firm’s Global Pay-TV Subscriber Databook, digital
Gavin Patterson, BT’s CEO, has expressed his fear that the UK’s exit from the European Union may have an adverse effect on the telco’s R&D capabilities. Noting that the telco is the third largest investor in R&D in the UK over the last 10 years (behind the two major pharmaceutical companies) and the world’s second […]
Sky has suffered its biggest drop in viewers for live Premier League games since records began in 2010. The Premier League sold broadcasting rights to Sky Sports and BT Sport for a record £5.136 billion (€5.76bn) in the latest three-year deal in February 2015, – £10 million per televised game. But Sky has recorded their steepest […]
Serie A, Italy’s top-flight football league, is launching a new tender for the TV rights to matches for the 2018-2021 seasons after private broadcaster Mediaset made no bid in the original tender on June 10th. “We don’t believe the offers received represent the real value of Italian soccer,” the Serie A president Carlo Tavecchio told […]
Telecoms, content and advertising group Altice has agreed a multi-year partnership with Netflix which will lead to Netflix’s content being made available to Altice customers into all eligible devices in France, Portugal, Israel and Dominican Republic. According to Altice, the launch of the Netflix service on its platforms will seamlessly bring critically-acclaimed original Netflix series, […]
A new 400Gbps single-carrier based technology solution to transmit vast streams of data over core fibre-optic networks, the ‘motorways’ of the Internet, has been developed by researchers at the BT Labs in Adastral Park, Ipswich. BT is demonstrating the optical network technology at its Innovation Week 2017 event at Adastral Park which runs from 12th […]
Karen Bradley has retained her job as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport following UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s reshuffling of portfolios following the UK General Election which saw her Conservative Party secure the most parliamentary seats, but not an overall majority. One of the most significant items requiring Bradley’s attention when she returns […]
A report in specialist publication Large Display Monitor (LDM) says that South Korea’s electronics giant LG will invest $3.56 billion into a new production line to turn out flexible screens. LDM says that while the bulk of the production will be for cellular phones – and to compete with Samsung – it anticipates that some […]
Orange is strengthening its corporate venture strategy by creating a new Africa section in its flagship programme for investment in start-ups, Orange Digital Ventures. As part of this initiative, the Group is committing €50 million corresponding to half of the direct investments made via its new Orange Digital Ventures Africa programme; the other half is […]