Italy’s media sector was worth €17.08 billion in 2015, practically unchanged to the previous year (€17.14 billion), representing 1.05 per cent of GDP. Television and radio broadcasting accounted for 49.5 per cent of the total. Free-to-air TV grew by 1.7 per cent in the period due to the positive performance of the advertising market and […]
January 11th saw officers from the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) visit organisations found to be advertising on websites involved in digital piracy. Officers from the unit visited eight organisations including brands, advertising agencies and networks, as part of a multi-agency initiative known as Operation Creative, which sees the police working […]
Hathway Cable & Datacom says it is spinning off its cable TV business into a separate wholly-owned subsidiary. The parent company will retain the profitable broadband business, and this is a reverse of an expected position from Hathway. Hathway says that broadband is the primary growth driver of the business. Spinning off the cable TV […]
Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) is leasing a complete Ku-band transponder from SES on its AMC-3 satellite to supply ‘direct to seat’ entertainment and broadband to aircraft passengers over North America, the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico regions. SES will rename the capacity ‘Eagle 1’ for GEE. AMC-3 is in inclined orbit. The deal was initially […]
Starz Play, the on-demand video streaming service available in 19 countries across the MENA region, has announced an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to provide its movies and series to the service’s subscribers. Khaled Benchouche, SVP of Programming & Acquisition at Starz Play, commented: “We are delighted to be working with 20th Century […]
Struggling music streaming service Pandora is laying off 7 per cent of its staff. The decision to downsize is said to be direct result of the failure of a buy-out of Pandora by pay-radio broadcaster SiriusXM. “Making workforce reductions is always a difficult decision,” Pandora CEO Tim Westergren said. “But the commitment to cost discipline […]
Shaw Communications has unveiled Shaw BlueSky TV, a new premium television product for Canadians. “Powered by Comcast’s next generation X1 platform, Shaw BlueSky TV leverages the strength of our network to make this new television experience possible for Shaw customers,” said Brad Shaw, CEO of Shaw Communications. “We are proud to be the first in […]
According to research and knowledge-based consulting company Futuresource Consulting, announcements of global roll-outs in the video space at the start of 2016 and 2017 respectively by Netflix and Amazon are indicative of
Reports have emerged in the Israeli business press that senior executives at MX1 (the former RR Media) have been accused of allegedly “swindling…and acting utterly illegally and in complete violation of agreements they signed” when the business was acquired by satellite operator SES. The then NASDAQ-listed RR Media was acquired by SES in 2016 (the […]
France’s Canal+ Group is to broadcast a match in Ultra HD from the country’s leading football league – Ligue 1 – from the end of January at 21hrs and every Sunday thereafter. The first such fixture is PSG-Monaco on January 29. Canal+ has decided to launch production of matches in Ligue 1 in collaboration with […]