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 […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has been chosen by The Africa Channel to provide media management, playout and distribution services for its channel across the US from its Culver City, CA, Media Centre. US-based, The Africa Channel is currently distributed on major US cable platforms. The Africa Channel is taking advantage of Globecast’s […]
Millicom, the telecommunications and media company dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa, has announced a strategic partnership with Netfli that will bring Netflix app preloads to Android smartphones from TigoSmart and provide promotions to TigoStar and TigoSmart customers in Latin America. “Customers are choosing Tigo for seamless on-demand services anywhere. This unique […]
Italy has adopted the HbbTV version 2.0.1 technology, based on HTML5, as a single standard for interactive TV services provided by broadcasters on Smart TVs and set-top-boxes. The confirmation comes from the publication of the HD Book 4.0, a series of documents compiled by HD Forum Italia (HDFI) that contain the technical specifications aimed at […]
Spaniards will only be able to watch 23 football matches from Euro 2016 (out of a total of 51) on TV as no broadcaster has managed to reach a deal with UEFA to broadcast the whole tournament. Despite Mediaset and beIN Sports negotiating with UEFA over the last few weeks no deal has been reached […]
The Dutch TV market remains in steady decline, reporting a loss for the fourth consecutive quarter (ending March 2016) with a little than 7.8 million connections, according to Telecompaper’s quarterly report on the Dutch Television Market. During the quarter the market decreased by 8,000 connections or 0.1 per cent, although digital TV grew by 0.4 […]
The news that Sky Deutschland has won the pay-TV broadcast rights for the 4 out of the 5 potential Bundesliga DFL football packages delivered a “strongly favourable outcome” for the broadcaster, observers agree. Moreover, the structure of the auction, which awarded the 5th group of games to Eurosport, was seen as being very beneficial to […]
A battle is brewing between a consortium of 5G operators, led by Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network, and a growing number of speciality satellite operators including Jersey-based OneWeb and rocket company SpaceX. The Dish consortium filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission on June 8th, asking the FCC to deny access to the satellite operators […]
The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), an advertising industry initiative to fight criminal activity in the digital advertising supply chain, has confirmed that leading Interpublic and Omnicom agencies, as well as Google, GoDaddy, and Bayer Consumer Health have joined the dozens of other agencies and major advertisers taking TAG’s Anti-Piracy Pledge to require their ad partners […]
India’s Ministry of Human Resource & Development is to create 32 educational channels which it will broadcast via DTH signals. The plan is to broadcast live lectures from some of India’s “top-class” educational institutions. “The government is focusing on using space technology to expand the reach of high quality education. Through the 32 DTH channels […]