Karim Michel Sabbagh, currently president & CEO at satellite operator SES, and Padraig McCarthy CFO, are stepping down. Steve Collar, who is currently CEO of SES Networks, has been appointed as the next President & CEO of SES, becoming CEO Designate with immediate effect. Andrew Browne, who was until recently CFO of O3b Networks and […]
The OTT subscription online VoD market in Europe should keep growing over the next five years. Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, projects the market to reach $6.8 billion (€5.55bn) in revenues in 2022, up from $3.9 billion in 2017. The main factors contributing
South African pay-TV giant MultiChoice has been given notice that their transmissions over and within Nigeria must cease next year. The notification also includes StarTimes Group, which is backed by Nigeria’s public broadcaster. All of the MultiChoice-related services are directly affected including DStv and its digital terrestrial service GOTV. The notification has come from Nigeria’s […]
London-based speciality satellite operator Avanti Communications has won support from its bond-holders who have given consent for their bonds to be converted into equity. Some 98.09 per cent have agreed to swap debt for newly-issued equity. The notice of the debt for equity swap was issued on January 25th and bond-holders on a large tranche […]
Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has partnered with Facebook to extend its Olympic Winter Games digital coverage to people on Facebook across Europe. Facebook communities in Germany, Sweden and Norway will be able to tune in live to Eurosport’s coverage of the PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony on February 9th. Daily highlights, clips and interviews from Eurosport’s […]
NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Ericsson to provide video contribution solutions for its production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, which take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, from February 8th – February 25th. The announcement was made by Christopher Connolly, Sr. Director of Transmission Engineering and Operations and Angel […]
Video ad serving platform SpotX and online video advertising specialist smartclip have confirmed that the first major steps of their merger have been concluded, becoming one global company with a joint management team. This plan, dubbed ‘One Team, One Platform’, was first announced by their joint parent company, RTL Group, in November 2017. The new […]
Eurovision Media Services – the business arm of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) – and satellite operator Eutelsat have renewed and expanded their partnership for capacity in Ku-band via a number of contracts on the Eutelsat 10A satellite. These multi-year, multi transponder contracts will further expand the infrastructure used by Eurovision Media Services across the […]
At the annual Media Insights and Engagement Conference on February 7th, Hub Entertainment Research released key findings about the impact of TV network brands on viewers. They revealed that although 41 per cent of consumers say that network brands don’t matter in their show viewing decisions, a deeper dive into their behaviours and perceptions demonstrates […]
Alongside parent company Liberty Global, UK multiplay operator Virgin Media is teaming up with Amazon Prime Video and All3Media International to commission psychological thriller series The Feed from The Walking Dead writer Channing Powell, and Studio Lambert. Based on the recently published novel by Nick Clark Windo, the series will launch in 2019 globally. This is […]