Critical information, analytics and solutions specialist IHS Markit expects total consumer spending on home video in Western Europe to increase with a CAGR of 3.5 per cent per year, to reach €8.7 billion by 2020. The market demonstrated confident expansion over 2016 at 2.6 per cent, reaching €7.9 billion. The home video sector is defined […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM is widely reported to be again looking to buy streaming service Pandora. Last summer the pair were said to be in talks but the rumoured $15 a share placed on the table by SiriusXM was apparently rejected despite valuing Pandora at some $3.4 billion. Now, if the reports are accurate, Pandora is […]
NBCUniversal is now using ‘picture-in-picture’ technology during commercial breaks on WWE SmackDown on the USA Network. ‘Picture-in-picture’ means that when the show goes to commercial, the sound from the show goes ‘off’ and the broadcast window is shrunk down, but viewers are still able to see what’s happening while the commercials play with sound and […]
Advertisers seeking targeted consumer segments across premium OTT video can now bid in real time on anonymous targeted impressions on Sling TV using one of the newly introduced top addressable data segments. In a new partnership, Sling TV’s premium inventory is now available programmatically through video ad serving platform SpotX, along with addressable consumer segments, […]
Airbus Safran Launchers, the joint-venture created at the initiative of aerospace giants Airbus and Safran groups in order to reorganise the European rocket launch sector, is now to be known as ArianeGroup. The change in corporate name will be effective as of July 1st. The name ArianeGroup is accompanied by a new logo and a […]
Over the last three months Vodafone Spain has added 30,000 new TV customers with a year-on-year rise of 245,000 for a total of over 1.3 million, up 23 per cent on the previous year. Vodafone has highlighted the big growth of the convergent packages. The convergent offer Vodafone One ended March with 2.4 million subs, […]
Sky has confirmed the extension of its long-standing partnership with NBCUniversal. The extensive multi-year agreements cover Sky Cinema and NBCUniversal International Networks’ (NBCUIN) suite of channel brands for Sky’s customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria. The partnership also includes a comprehensive EST and TVoD agreement for Sky Store across those territories. Sky customers […]
SES-15, a new satellite owned by SES of Luxembourg, is scheduled to launch from French Guiana on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket today (May 18th). Lift-off is timed for exactly 1154:43 GMT (7:54:53 a.m. EDT; 8:54:53 a.m. French Guiana time) Thursday, weather permitting. SES-15 is headed to operate from 129 degrees West although because it is […]
India’s State Research Organisation (ISRO) is responsible for the design and build on the country’s satellite and rocket-building and to “harness space technology for national development”. It has not had aa good time just lately, beset by scandals and late-delivery of satellites which are needed to support India’s broadcasters and suppliers of bandwidth. India’s government […]
Technicians at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, have now sent into space 79 metal parts inside satellites for the likes of Telkom 3S and the recent launch of Koreasat-7. The parts have been made by the ‘additive manufacturing’ 3D-based printing technique. Additionally, Thales has made some 350 polymer tube supports used in satellites. They […]