TVPlayer has announced record growth for its live-TV streaming service in the UK. The platform has added more than 40,000 net customers to its premium pay-TV service in the last quarter, positioning TVPlayer as the fastest growing complete pay-TV platform in the UK. TVPlayer now has almost 2 million monthly active users in the UK, […]
The BBC faces a ‘David versus Goliath fight against west coast giants’ to protect British values and prevent the spread of fake news and consequent social unease and division, the BBC director general Tony Hall will tell staff in a speech this week. Hall will say the rise and rise US ‘Faang’ companies – Facebook, […]
Terms of Reference for the new DVB CM-I group for DVB-I (Internet) have been agreed at the recent 80th DVB Commercial Module meeting. DVB CM-I will look into the Commercial Requirements for standalone linear TV services over broadband Internet. The group is to be chaired by Thomas Stockhammer (Qualcomm Technologies) with Peter Lanigan (TP Vision) […]
Orange Spain has reached an agreement with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to enhance its VoD service with up to 100 new titles, including a number of recent releases such as Ferdinand and The Greatest Showman as well as classic hits from the studio such as Alien and Ice Age. With this deal, Orange’s VoD […]
SpaceX is looking to make the delayed launch of Madrid-based satellite operator’s Hispasat 30W-6 craft at 12.33am tonight (05.33 GMT, March 6th) when a two-hour launch window opens. The satellite was originally expected to launch last week, but a problem with pressurisation of the nose cone fairing delayed the lift-off. The launch will be SpaceX’s […]
The Swiss public have voted overwhelmingly in favour of retaining the licence fee in a national vote held on March 4th 2018. The ‘No Billag’ initiative was filed in Switzerland in late 2015, calling for the abolition of the TV and radio licence fee. Billag is the name of the private company responsible for collecting […]
The latest Australian Video Viewing Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen, and spanning the year through Q4 2017 – builds on the continuing story of how Australians are embracing opportunities to watch video on an ever-increasing array of options. Extensive content choice and more devices in homes encourage the cross-screen ‘spreading’ this report […]
The mandated conversion from analogue to digital for India’s thousands of cable operators, and the obligation to supply addressable digital decoder set-top boxes has not quite paid off for operators or content providers, according to a study published by Indiantelevision. The study combines data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the six […]
WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) and L’Équipe, the French free TV channel dedicated to sport, have announced a new agreement to broadcast WWE’s flagship weekly programme Raw on free-to-air television in France. From March 10th, L’Équipe channel la chaine L’Équipe will air a one-hour version of Raw at on Saturday mornings with an additional re-air on […]
France’s Canal + Group has responded to the ongoing carriage dispute with France’s TF1 by saying it regrets the stalemate in negotiations with the TF1 Group after 18 months of discussions, stating that it has been forced to interrupt the broadcast of TF1, TMC, TFX, TF1 Séries Films, LCI and their associated services. “This decision […]