South Africa’s recently appointed Minister of Communications, Ayanda Dlodlo, is reportedly dumping her predecessor’s strategy which backed non-encryption of digital set-top boxes. The former minister, Faith Muthambi, had favoured ‘open’ digital receivers despite the ruling African National Congress political party that boxes needed to be encrypted. Muthambi was replaced in March. Muthambi’s approach was designed […]
TiVo has announced that Frontier Communications, a US service provider, has signed a multi-year product licence agreement and renewal of its entertainment discovery intellectual property licence agreement. This deal names TiVo as the exclusive provider of advertising for national advertising campaigns in Frontier Communications’ interactive programming guides’ programme listings grid and provides Frontier with a […]
Rubicon Project has been selected by the digital advertising team at BT to extend its digital advertising proposition to thousands of potential advertisers via Rubicon Project’s exchange. BT Digital Advertising is the online advertising and creative solutions team within BT’s Consumer business and works with advertisers to create and deliver data-driven, engaging campaigns to over […]
Global pay-TV revenues will peak in 2017 at $202 billion (€184bn), according to analysis firm Digital TV Research. However, no rapid decline will take place after 2017 as revenues will still be as high as $200 billion in 2022. The Global Pay-TV Revenue Forecasts report [covering 138 countries] concludes
According to Mike Fries, CEO of International TV and broadband company Liberty Global, the improvement in subscriber additions, led by its operations in the UK and Germany, contributed to its best first quarter video performance in the last ten years, with a “robust” take-up of the new 4K-enabled Virgin TV V6 set-top box and customer […]
According to Hub Research, virtual MVPDs (multichannel video programming distributors) – including the just-launched Hulu Live TV service – were developed as a less-expensive alternative to traditional MVPD subscriptions. But over the time these services have been available, there’s been no appreciable drop in the number of viewers who subscribe to pay-TV. Why haven’t Virtual […]
Virtual Reality will work in a way that 3D didn’t. That’s because VR and Augmented Reality have so many obvious and useful applications across a range of sectors from medicine to architecture to robotics. A broad plane of development also means TV will benefit from not having to do all the production and workflow heavy […]
Australia’s Government has announced a comprehensive package of reforms that it suggests will improve the sustainability of Australia’s free-to-air broadcasting sector, support the creation of high quality Australian content and modernise broadcasting and content regulation. The package also includes a community dividend in the form of further restrictions on gambling advertising. The measures include: Abolishing […]
London-based Avanti Communications suffered an all-time low price for its shares on May 5th, falling 8.5 per cent to 9.49p. One month ago the price was 12.56p, although this itself was massively down on its 96p price a year ago. Sellers of Avanti stock were being offered 9.25p for their shares. The collapse in Avanti’s […]
SpaceX will launch BulgariaSat-1 next month on a ‘pre-flow’ (or as SpaceX coyly describe it, “Flight-tested”) rocket that was previously used to launch a group of Iridium satellites back in January. In its statement officials from BulgariaSat-1 say that their launch will happen in mid-June. Maxim Zayakov, CEO at BulgariaSat, said using a pre-flown first […]