Dror Ginzberg, CEO and co-founder of short-form social video creation platform Wochit, has shared his five top predictions for digital video in 2017: Streaming video companies like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will look more and more like production studios or even OTT providers. This evolution is now both driven by and a driver of consumer […]
Comcast and Sling TV have confirmed that Sling TV, the live and on demand Internet TV service, will launch on the X1 platform, giving Comcast’s X1 customers access over the Internet to even more content, including hundreds of new multicultural programmes and channels. The companies are working to add Sling TV to X1 and will […]
Mexico’s telecoms regulator has launched a tender for 148 television channel concessions across the country, in a bid to open up the market, provide greater coverage options, and drive competition. The 148 concessions are spread across 124 separate coverage zones in Mexico, and provide access to channels 7-13 and 14-36 on the free-to-air network, the […]
SPI International / FilmBox Channels Group and UPC DTH have extended their collaboration in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to provide UPC Direct and freeSAT customers with a new application, FilmBox Live. This new online service will be part of the FilmBox Pack which is available on both platforms. FilmBox Live will be added […]
Video services provider Simplestream has been selected by A+E Networks UK to provide TV Everywhere distribution services for its new UK free-to-air channel Blaze. Blaze is a free-to-air channel that debuted in the UK and Ireland on 20 September 2016 on Freeview and Sky with programming that includes American Restoration, The First 48, Mountain Men, […]
Achieving 75 successive successful rocket launches with its Ariane 5 vehicle is a praiseworthy record, and Arianespace is celebrating its achievement with a new website that brings together videos, key facts and mission highlights. “The Ariane 5 story is one of shared success involving Arianespace, its customers, the European Space Agency (ESA) and member states, […]
Italian DTH platform Tivùsat is set to end the year with 3 million active smart-cards, according to CEO Luca Balestrieri. Over the past four years, Tivùsat has tripled its user base. After surpassing the threshold of 1 million active smart cards in 2011, the platform continued the growth trend, reaching 2 million in November 2013, […]
The debut episode of the highly-anticipated new Amazon Original Series, The Grand Tour, has become the biggest show premiere ever on Amazon Prime Video, with millions of Prime members streaming the first episode in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Japan over the opening weekend. Viewership has even exceeded that of the previous number one […]
UK subscription-free DTT platform Freeview has revealed that Freeview Play, its catch-up and on-demand TV service, will launch on Blaupunkt, Hisense, Sharp AQUOS, and Toshiba devices in the coming months. Since its debut in October 2015, some 20 leading brands including Panasonic, Humax, LG and JVC have launched Freeview Play TVs and set-top boxes. According […]
Mediaset Spain, operator of Tele 5 and Cuatro, has reached an agreement with Paramount Pictures to broadcast premiere films free-to-air. Films such as Mission Impossible, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Star Trek, among others, are included in the deal. With this deal, Mediaset strengthens its strategy to rely on premiere films to attract ratings and […]