The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is launching a new campaign – Keep Media Good (KMG) – which demonstrates the positive impact public service media (PSM) has on societies. This is the first time PSM organisations across Europe have come together with one unified voice to champion PSM, in the face of a proliferation of fake […]
Reports have emerged that 21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Walt Disney Co. Any such deal would not involve all of Fox’s assets, according to people with knowledge of the talks. It is understood that Fox believes that a more tightly-focused group of properties around news and […]
The golden age of television is just getting started, according to Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content at Sky. Writing an Opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph, Davey says there has never been a better time for it. “But not according to the BBC. In a speech last week, Tony Hall, the BBC director-general, said the […]
The UK industry body for digital, cable and satellite broadcasters and on-demand services has warned that TV firms may have to move some operations abroad if there is no Brexit trade deal. Speaking to the BBC, Adam Minns, executive director of Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) said that thousands of jobs could potentially be at stake […]
ITV is threatening a blackout of its flagship channel in some 3.8 million homes served by Virgin Media unless the cable operator pays up to £80 million a year to host the channel. ITV threatened to shut down the feed of its main channel to Virgin Media TV homes last month, but at the 11th […]
Singapore households will now have one more year to switch to Digital TV (DTV). The cessation of analogue TV broadcast has been shifted from end-2017 to December 31st 2018 to allow more time for households to switch over to DTV. In addition, the Infocommunications Media Development Authority (IMDA) – which develops and regulates the converging […]
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE and cable MSO Unitymedia have concluded a long-term distribution agreement. The agreement covers the distribution of all free, pay, HD and VoD offerings. Accordingly, ProSiebenSat.1 has secured a reach of 6.4 million households via Unitymedia’s cable network for future years. Unitymedia operates in the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse […]
The BBC has announced plans to reinvent free-to-air sports broadcasting, with its biggest increase of live sport coverage in a generation. Over a thousand extra hours of live sport could be available for audiences to watch online every year through BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer. Sport fans can also personalise the service to make sure […]
UK free-to-air DTT platform Freeview has blamed high air pressure as the cause of disruption being experienced by some of its users in England and Wales. The service provides access to digital TV channels through aerials, making it possible to watch programmes without a satellite or cable subscription. The issue began on the evening of […]
Ian Katz, currently Editor of Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship daily news and current affairs programme, has been appointed Director of Programmes by UK Commercial public service broadcaster, a surprise move given his relative inexperience in the TV industry, having only been in his post since 2013 following previous roles in the newspaper industry. Katz, previously Deputy […]