Alticast has announced that KT Skylife, the largest satellite broadcasting operator in South Korea, has selected the Alticast Ambient TV platform as the foundation for TELEBEE, a new end-to-end turnkey OTT service that will provide a competitive edge against Netflix, Hulu and other SVoD services. Ambient TV has been specifically designed to allow fully-featured OTT services […]
Lotame, the independent data management platform (DMP), has announced the launch of its aiTV suite of new products focused on bringing greater audience intelligence to television and video. These offerings will live under Lotame’s newly formed aiTV division, led by General Manager Doug Pollack. “Lotame’s proven onboarding, mapping, and managing of audience and viewership data […]
Information, data, and measurement company Nielsen has filed a lawsuit to stop rival media measurement and analytics company comScore from using its technology to launch a competing service for measuring television audiences. The complaint, filed with the US District Court in Manhattan, seeks an injunction to stop the launch of comScore’s Extended TV service, which […]
Indian DTH pay-TV service DishTV has launched an initiative to offer HD access for all its users, with the goal of making the HD viewing experience mainstream and accessible to all users across India. All subscriber set-top boxes are now HD-enabled. “HD space has been fast evolving, making significant in-roads into Indian households,” noted Anil […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM has concluded its $480 million “strategic investment” in music streaming service Pandora. The deal was first announced back on June 9th. Under the terms of the agreement, a subsidiary of SiriusXM purchased $172.5 million of Series A preferred stock upon execution of the agreement on June 9th 2017 and [September 22nd] purchased […]
The premiere of Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access, the CBS Television Network’s digital SVoD service, set a new record for subscriber sign-ups in a single day. CBS didn’t release exact figures, but said the number “eclipsed” the previous record held by the 2017 Grammy Awards. Episodes one and two of Star Trek: Discovery […]
Arianespace says it has rescheduled the cancelled launch of the dual payload of Intelsat 37e and BSAT 4a satellites to a target date of September 29th. The initial launch was aborted at the very last second on September 5th at the Kourou launch facility when an anomaly was sensed in one of the giant rocket’s […]
Broadcast connectivity expert SIS LIVE and satellite operator ABS have launched a new SIS LIVE Gateway Service solution for ABS Occasional Use (OU) services. The SIS LIVE Gateway Service offers broadcasters and service providers a flexible and reliable Occasional Use platform at competitive rates. The SIS LIVE Gateway Service provides Occasional Use booking services and […]
Ed Woodward, the vice-chairman of Manchester United Football Club, has said that Amazon and Facebook are likely to bid for English Premier League streaming rights, further escalating the huge financial bonanza for England’s top clubs. In his quarterly call with bank executives who invest in Manchester United’s shares on the New York stock exchange, Woodward […]
After successful tests of Italy’s first HbbTV app on the La5 channel, Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset is ready for the national rollout of several applications. These include TgCom, Sport Mediaset, Meteo.it apps, or dedicated apps for the broadcaster’s news, sports and weather services. The novelty is the result of Mediaset’s participation in the Multi-Platform Application […]