Telefónica has made its pay-TV platform Movistar TV available to all Spanish people with sensory disabilities through its service Movistar + 5S. The company will invest over €1 million annually to provide its content using audio description, subtitles and sign language to allow deaf and blind people to enjoy the pay TV platform for the […]
Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and HDT (Hungaro DigiTel Kft.), are broadcasting the festivities surrounding the Euro 2016 tournament to Hungary. Spacecom’s AMOS-3 communications satellite, from its 4°W prime orbital position, is supporting the tournament by carrying live broadcasts, behind the scenes content, special interviews and more from France to Budapest. “HDT’s Euro […]
Netflix has acquired the global rights to Ricky Gervais’ movie-length spinoff of The Office. Gervais revealed the news on SiriusXM’s Opie with Jim Norton Show today, commenting: “This is exciting news and this is top secret, so I’m going to say it now. Netflix has bought out the rest of the world again.” The spinoff, entitled […]
Dish Mexico, one of the country’s leading pay-TV companies, has appointed Inview, the broadcast/OTT software specialist to provide an end to end DTH ecosystem with advanced features and services. Inview will be providing broadcast software and services that will allow Dish Mexico to create an improved user experience based on creative technology. “We are thrilled […]
DTT is not part of the future TV landscape and governments should not back DVB-T2 to the disadvantage of other platforms, declares Christophe Mainusch, Central European Media Enterprise’s co-CEO. Instead (CME) wants governments to deregulate and in particular remove restrictions on advertising minutes. Speaking at NEM in Dubrovnik, Mainusch said that subscription and carriage fees […]
Almost five million Australians now have Netflix, the latest results to May 2016 from Roy Morgan Research show—and with the free trials and free versions wrapping up, nearly all subscribing homes are paying for the SVoD service. After a stellar run in 2015, Netflix has continued to grow: up to 1,878,000 subscriptions (number of subscribing […]
Multichoice Kenya’s GOtv subsidiary is raising its subscriber fee by 8.5 per cent. Both tiers are affected. GOtv Lite subscribers see their monthly fee rise from Kenyan Shillings 599 to 650, and the premium tier GOtv Plus is upped from KES 849 to 920 (about €8). The price hikes are not unexpected. Multichoice has been […]
Sling TV has launched its live and on-demand Internet TV service on Apple TV. The OTT provider’s suite of services, including its single-stream, beta multi-stream, Sling Latino and Sling International offerings, are available to Sling TV customers once they download the app from the App Store on fourth-generation Apple TV. “Delivering the best TV experience […]
The first ever live 24 hour advert featuring live sport will premier during this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours following the announcement of a new partnership between Ford, the automotive and mobility company, and sports broadcaster Eurosport. The live ad will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ford’s historic 1-2-3 finish at Le Mans. At the […]
The latest carriage fee dispute between broadcasting stations and pay-TV involves Dish Network and Tribune Broadcasting. The station’s retransmissions went dark at 7pm Eastern Time on June 12th. Tribine is the largest independent broadcasting and media group in the US with 42 owned or operated stations and terrestrially reaching more than 50 million homes. This […]