The UK government is to order BBC to sell its 50 per cent stake in cable and satellite programmer UKTV, according to the Sunday Times, which usually has impeccable links with government “sources”. It is understood that John Whittingdale, the Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, will make provision for such a sale in a White […]
Sling TV, a subsidiary of Charlie Ergen’s digital pay-TV operator Dish, may be about to launch ‘Air TV’, an over-the-air transmission system. Sling TV offers a pay-TV ‘lite’ subscription service with a limited number of channels but without a long-term obligation on the part of the user. Variety is reporting that Sling TV has developed […]
Ericsson has announced the launch of Piero Augmented Reality, a software system that gives broadcasters the ability to enhance sports programming and create more immersive viewing experiences. Ericsson’s Piero Augmented Reality enables broadcasters to overlay 3D graphics in real-time during live studio productions and sports games. Sports analysis graphics can be produced instantly either by […]
IABM has launched an industry-wide endorsement scheme for Industry Collaborative Groups (ICGs) within broadcast and media technology. The ICG Endorsement Scheme is a major IABM initiative and is designed to encourage collaboration across a wide range of industry issues and opportunities, from education and best practice to standardisation and interoperability. IABM’s vision is for a […]
Local reports suggest that Jersey-based OneWeb will confirm on April 19th that it will build hundreds of its proposed satellites at a new facility within the Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration Park on Florida’s Space Coast. OneWeb is said to be proposing that the Exploration Park’s manufacturing hub could become a new centre for satellite building […]
According to James Wang, Analyst, Devices/Gateways at ARK Investment Management, TV executives should feel paranoid about the rise of Netflix. At the current trajectory, ARK research forecasts Netflix will become the largest US video network by 2019. With Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Hulu and a host of niche players also experiencing rapid growth, streaming is […]
Bloomberg’s television broadcast service is a speciality all-financial news channel but it seems advertisers are perfectly happy with the product. Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith told staff April 14 that its TV revenues in the US were up 27 percent year-on-year despite what he described as an “increasingly difficult media environment”. Bloomberg’s detailed numbers will […]
French rocket launch company Arianespace reported impressive revenues for 2015, and helped by problems amongst its rival launch companies (notably less activity from SpaceX and the Russian Proton system). Overall revenues were €1.433 billion, and up 2.4 per cent on 2014. Arianespace’s net profits, however, were just €4 million from 12 overall launches (6 by […]
Last week Nilesat was reported to have decided to permanently exit from Lebanon, citing problems with the Hezbollah-backed al-Manar channel. The reports even stated that Nilesat would cease using Beirut’s uplinking satellite teleport once its contract with the teleport expired. Now Lebanon’s ‘Daily Star’ newspaper is reporting well-placed government sources saying that Nilesat is looking […]
Intelsat has announced that BBC World News has renewed and expanded its contract for use of multiple Intelsat premier video neighborhoods and the IntelsatOne terrestrial network to distribute content across several continents. Under the multi-year agreement, BBC World News will be delivered to millions of viewers in the Americas and Asia via four of Intelsat’s […]