According to Chase Carey, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Formula One Group, the sport faces a major challenge as it plans the way races are viewed in the future. Motorsport Network Formula One expert Adam Cooper says that Carey acknowledges that generating income from fans who are willing to pay for a […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel and premium channel Fox Sports are to be merged into a single company that could be listed on the stock exchange, owners News Corp and Telstra have announced. Fox Sports is completely owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, while Telstra and Foxtel currently share ownership of Foxtel. The pair say the […]
Turner and UEFA, the governing body of European football, have agreed a three-year multi-platform deal for the exclusive presentation of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League in the US beginning with the 2018-19 season. Timed to this multi-year rights agreement, Turner has also announced plans to launch a new standalone premium sports streaming […]
Sky is to broadcast Queens Park Rangers’ charity football match on September 2nd in aid of the West London community affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. The match, branded #Game4Grenfell, will see former football professionals, celebrities and special guests play a 90-minute match at QPR’s 18,000-capacity Loftus Road stadium in Shepherd’s Bush, the closest league ground […]
Russian news service Interfax is reporting that the upcoming launch of Spanish satellite Amazonas-5, built by Space Systems/Loral, and originally expected to launch on September 9th, may now slip to later in September. Amazonas-5, owned by Hispasat of Madrid, is needed in orbit to replace capacity lost on Amazonas-4 when it suffered power problems in […]
Thailand’s Bangkok Post newspaper is reporting that the country’s government is seeking – at least – partial control of the upcoming Thaicom-9 craft. Thaicom-9 is due for launch in 2019 to the 119.5 degrees East orbital slot. “State telecom enterprise CAT Telecom will probably be assigned to partly operate and manage the state satellite,” Deputy […]
The first half of 2017 has seen rapid growth in sales of DAB+ receivers across Europe – driven by Norway’s switchover from FM to DAB+ and the development of digital radio markets across the continent. GfK research, covering nine European markets, shows a 30 per cent increase in sales volumes for the first six months […]
Brazil’s publicly-owned telecoms infrastructure comp any Telebras says it has postponed its sale of Ka-band capacity on its SGDC defence satellite. It had divided the bandwidth into three lots for sale but has now, following consultations, postponed the process. Companies wishing to bid for the capacity now have until September 27th to enter their bids. […]
Discovery Communications has struck a streaming deal in Germany and Austria with Amazon that brings Amazon Prime members access to Eurosport’s premium live HD sports content, including exclusive Bundesliga live on Friday nights across Germany. Eurosport goes live on Amazon Channels on August 16th 2017. In what the broadcaster describes as “a fantastic deal for […]
According to analyst firm The Diffusion Group (TDG), although virtual pay-TV services are immature and years away from ‘five-9’ reliability, subscribers overwhelmingly consider service value to be very solid. In TDG’s Q2 Benchmarking the Connected Consumer project – a survey of more than 2,000 US adult broadband users – less than 5 per cent of […]