Inscape, the Smart TV data company, has selected Dativa as a preferred professional services partner. Dativa is a data-centric professional services company that helps customers with onboarding, including setting up data feeds, pipeline construction, ingest and storage of data lakes, modelling or transforming data for their specific applications, and application construction. “It’s one thing to […]
International broadcasters invested a record £1.02 billion (€1.15bn) in the UK in 2017, an increase of more than 50 per cent on the comparable figure (£679m) in 2011, according to independent research commissioned by UK trade body the Commercial Broadcasters Association, who warns that this investment is at risk unless the Government secures access to […]
Spanish consumer association Facua has urged competition and markets watchdog the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) to look into the “agreed” rise by the country’s three largest operators (Movistar, Vodafone and Orange) of the price in convergent packages. Facua has accused the telcos of a cartel to raise the prices up […]
A London High Court Judge has approved a legal challenge by global citizens movement Avaaz against Ofcom, calling to question the regulator’s decision that Fox and the Murdoch family could be trusted to fully control Sky. Honourable Mr Justice Morris ruled that Avaaz’s case against Ofcom’s ‘fit and proper’ ruling in the Fox/Sky bid is […]
Multi-award-winning producer, director and writer Ryan Murphy, and his Ryan Murphy Productions company, have agreed a deal to produce new series and films exclusively for Netflix, starting July 1st. Murphy, who is behind a string of hot shows for Fox, has reportedly signed a 5-year deal with Netflix worth $300 million (€240m). Disney was also […]
Liberty Global has announced its Q4 and full-year 2017 financial results. The international telco reported full year revenues of $15 billion, $3.9 billion of which were generated in the 4th quarter. This represented a rise of 2.3 per cent on the full year and 2.9 per cent on the 4th quarter. However, operating income for […]
Google’s Chrome web browser has launched an ad-blocker that is designed to prevent “annoying” and “intrusive” ads being shown to users. Google announced the move to curtail full-page and auto-playing video ads last year. The choice of which ads to block will be determined by the Coalition for Better Ads (CBA) – made up of […]
Elettronica Industriale, a subsidiary of the Italian group Mediaset, has signed a multi-year capacity agreement with satellite operator Eutelsat to accelerate its transition to HD. Thanks to this contract, the three flagship channels of the Mediaset Group (Canale 5, Italia 1 and Rete 4) will be broadcast simultaneously in SD and HD on the free […]
Half of US television homes and more than one-third of the country’s population have watched the PyeongChang Olympics on the television networks of NBCUniversal, according to fast cume data provided by Nielsen. Through Sunday, 109.6 million viewers (in 59 million homes) have watched the Winter Games on NBCUniversal networks NBC, NBCSN, CNBC and USA (does […]
China’s Orient Hontai will now control Spanish media company Mediapro after acquiring a 53.5 per cent stake in the company for around €900 million. The Chinese private equity firm has acquired the stake from the shareholders: Torreal, another private equity company with a share of 23 per cent; the Mexican broadcaster Televisa with 19 per […]