comScore has announced an agreement with Charter Communications to expand its integration of Charter’s aggregated and anonymised television data from all US markets into comScore’s TV measurement service. The expansion includes all Charter Spectrum markets added from its transactions with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, as well as viewing information from Charter’s Spectrum […]
International Launch Services (ILS), the commercial arm of Russia’s Proton rocket system, is to launch the much-delayed EchoStar XXI satellite next week on June 8th (at 06.45 Moscow time) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Echostar XXI has been waiting for the best part of a year for launch, and was needed on station – […]
iflix, the SVoD service for emerging markets, has announced the establishment of iflix Africa to bring its service to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). iflix Africa will be headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa and trade commercially as ‘iflix’. With launches planned in Nigeria, Ghana Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, iflix Africa will increase iflix’s global footprint to […]
SkyVision Global Networks, a global telecom engineering, satellite communication service provider and managed service supplier, has been awarded a contract by Global IP to supply, build and maintain the ground infrastructure of 11 Ka-band gateway stations in different European teleports for Global IP’s GiSat-1 satellite network. Construction of the turn-key gateway stations will begin in […]
Kantar Millward Brown has partnered with Samba TV in the US to launch a single-source measurement solution for television advertising effectiveness. The partnership combines Samba’s TV dataset with Kantar Millward Brown’s Ignite Network, a brand marketing analytics platform, to provide marketers with precision and granularity in TV effectiveness measurement. The joint initiative matches Kantar Millward […]
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of de facto control over Telecom Italia by Vivendi. The decision is conditional on the divestment of Telecom Italia’s stake in Persidera. Telecom Italia is also active, through its subsidiary Persidera (a joint venture with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso), in the market for the wholesale access to digital terrestrial […]
According to Dataxis research, 314 million of TV households now receive TV signals via Free-to-Air satellite, which represents 18 per cent of the worldwide TV households. FTA satellite distribution is becoming more and more important and Dataxis forecasts that this ratio will reach 20 per cent in 2021. The penetration rate for FTA DTH varies […]
In advance of the UEFA Champions League final between Real Madrid and Juventus on June 3rd, KPMG has released the second edition of the Football Clubs’ Valuation: The European Elite 2017, a report providing an indication of the Enterprise Value (EV) of the 32 most prominent European football clubs. Andrea Sartori, KPMG’s Global Head of […]
Avanti Communications warned investors and shareholders that despite winning some $25 million-worth of new contracts over the past two months, they were unlikely to generate “material revenue growth” during its second-half year of trading. The demand, such as it is, was mostly generated from new business in Europe and the Middle East. “The new contracts […]
Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure company, has announced a new long-term partnership with multi-channel broadcaster Information TV to provide new channels to the UK DTH market. With Arqiva signed up to be the exclusive provider of technical services for the broadcaster, Information TV will now have a one-stop shop for all services relating to the […]