Freeview and Sony have announced the successful roll out of Freeview Play on selected Sony BRAVIA TV models. The subscription-free catch-up and on-demand platform provides access to BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, Demand 5 and UKTV Play. Viewers with compatible Sony TVs will now be able to scroll back from the TV guide to […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has completed a second successful season of full coverage of the FIA World Endurance Championship from circuits around the world. It also provided coverage of the world famous 24 Hours of Le Mans as well as the six-race European Le Mans Series and Michelin Le Mans Cup series. […]
Mobile TV is the TV distribution platform that has seen the highest growth in Italy over the past two years, according to the 2017 Censis report on the state of communication and media. In fact, Mobile TV doubled the number of users, going from 11.2 per cent in 2015 to 22.1 per cent. DTT remains […]
Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe & Africa has unveiled a new non-linear service. Created by FNG Europe & Africa, National Geographic+ will provide exclusive access to the vast catalogue of National Geographic, with the award winning visual storytelling delivered through carefully curated topics. Space, Egypt, World Cultures, Deep-sea Exploration and Human Body are just a […]
Mediaset Spain, operator of Tele 5 and Cuatro, has acquired the TV rights to the Football World Cup 2018 to broadcast all 64 matches FTA in the country. Mediaset also aired matches from the previous World Cups in 2010 and 2014. Mediaset made a bid for all the 64 matches – not just the 27 […]
Australia’s Federal Government has formally directed the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to commence an inquiry into digital platform providers such as Facebook and Google. The ACCC’s inquiry will look at the effect that digital search engines, social media platforms and other digital content aggregation platforms are having on competition in media and advertising […]
UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky showed a hard-hitting sexually explicit movie at 21.00 immediately after having screened 5 back-to-back episodes of The Simpsons. Broadcasting regulator Ofcom, in its report on a complaint received regarding strong language and sex scenes within an 18-rated action-thriller movie ‘Wanted’, said: “The complainant said that her 11-year-old son was watching and […]
Immedia Group has announced its DreamStream X radio platform which allow brands to combine live audio and visual streaming through its own in-house entertainment platform direct to customer’s mobile phones. DreamStream X works by streaming live broadcasts from Immedia’s own studios onto an app integrated within a brand’s platform and delivered to people’s mobile phones. […]
Love Nature, a joint venture between Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks, has announced that its premium wildlife and nature streaming video service, available in 65+ countries, has launched on Vodafone TV in 4K and HD in New Zealand. All Vodafone TV subscribers in New Zealand have Love Nature’s premium natural history SVoD service bundled […]
A fifth of UK Netflix subscribers watched Stranger Things in the first week of Season 2’s release, according to research from YouGov. The research indicates that of the 6.5 million UK Netflix subscribers, 1.3 million streamed Stranger Things – either to watch the first season, or view the new episodes (which went live on October […]