UK free-to-air sports channel Front Runner is to broadcast live, season-long and free-to-air coverage of the prestigious British GT championship, marking the first time that all UK rounds will be shown live for the first time. The arrangement also the MINI Challenge support category. Launched in October 2016, Front Runner is the UK’s first and […]
TiVo has released the 16th edition of its quarterly Video Trends Report, covering key topics across pay-TV, VoD, PPV, OTT, TV Everywhere, streaming devices and content discovery. Based on a survey of over 3,100 consumers,
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer division, has defended the telco’s securing of exclusive UK rights to Europe’s top club football competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. Currently, free-to-air broadcaster ITV shows highlights of Champions league games, with News Limited sharing clips rights with BT. Under the £1.2 billion (€1.38), three-year […]
The rapid growth of the virtual reality (VR) market is attracting substantial private and federal investments to innovative start-ups, mostly in the areas of video, services and solutions, games and apps reports Frost & Sullivan. With technological advances and improvements in user experience, VR will become more ubiquitous in industries such as healthcare, automotive, education, […]
Describing it as ‘a service truly fit for a queen’, BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, have launched BritBox, a new subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) streaming service – first revealed mid-December 2016 – with what it says is the most comprehensive collection of British television, across all genres, […]
The cable industry is growing, with total revenues up 4.6 per cent year on year based on IHS statistics released by the industry’s trade association, Cable Europe, at Cable Congress in Brussels. Revenue growth remains solid across all cable services: broadband internet (7.5 per cent), TV (3.7 per cent) and telephony (2.1 per cent). Broadband […]
Free, a subsidiary of French telco Iliad, has claimed record ultra-fast network rollouts in 2016, with 4.4 million FTTH connections and 310,000 subscribers at the end of 2016. Free aims to achieve a 25 per cent share of the broadband and ultra-fast broadband market, and to increase its FTTH subscriber base by 200,000+ in 2017, […]
In the wake of new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s confirmation of his opposition to net neutrality and overturn ‘Open Internet’ proposals, a grouping of 171 public policy and advocacy bodies has written an open letter urging Pai, Democratic Senator Bill Nelson (Ranking Member, US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation) and Republican Senator John […]
RTL Group has confirmed that co-CEO Anke Scheferkordt, will leave her current role at her own request, effective April 19th. Bert Habets, currently CEO of RTL Nederland, will then become the new co-CEO alongside Guillaume de Posch. Schaferkordt will continue to be the CEO of the company’s largest business unit, Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, which she […]
The largest global consumer piracy online survey ever conducted has found that consumer education could reduce the number of individuals who watch pirated video content. The Irdeto Global Consumer Piracy Survey of more than 25,000 adults across 30 countries found that despite the high number of consumers around the globe watching pirated video content (52 […]