Virgin Media customers who subscribe to Sky Sports and/or Sky Movies will be hit with price hikes of up to 8 per cent from June 1st. The move will see around 880,000 customers paying between £12 (€15.42) and £30 extra a year depending on their package. Virgin Media said the price hike comes as a […]
Home input device and interaction mechanism specialist ruwido has confirmed that it is providing the brand new Sky Q touch remote, designed to deliver a fluid and seamless TV experience. Sky’s premium Sky Q entertainment service – launched in February 2016 after its unveiling in November 2015 – is aimed at making it easier than […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat and Wiztivi, a specialist in multiscreen TV solutions, have unveiled Sat.tv, a smart Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) for tablets and smartphones. The application addresses the 66 million homes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East equipped for DTH reception of Eutelsat’ HOT BIRD satellites that give access to more than 300 […]
Altice owner and CEO Patrice Drahi is about to consolidate all the group’s media activities into its SFR telecom subsidiary. According to French Sunday newspaper JDD, the reorganisation, set to be announced April 27th, will also lead to the launch by affiliate group NextRadioTV of two pay-TV sport channels called SFR Sport. Those new channels […]
Pakistan’s media regulator, PEMRA, says the abandoned DTH auction (cancelled last December) will be reinstated later this year. PEMRA says it will auction rights to three satellite TV slots. PEMRA has been somewhat bogged down while its new chairman Absar Alam has conducted examinations into PEMRA’s own operating processes. Last autumn, ahead of the cancelled […]
Middle East and North Africa pay-TV network OSN has secured a number of major successes in its fight against television piracy across the region, having carried out more than 316 raids with the support of government authorities. On the eve of the World Intellectual Property Day (World IP Day) on April 26, OSN is upping […]
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and specialist in video publishing, analytics and monetisation, is powering regional and international live-stream broadcasts for two of Australia’s major sporting franchises, the National Rugby League (NRL) and the National Basketball League (NBL). The customers are the first to utilise the new Ooyala Live solution, helping them have more engaged viewers, […]
A+E Networks’ Lifetime channel is set to launch on April 26th in Turkey as a Free-To-Air channel, featuring award-winning TV shows, first-run TV movies and unscripted series. Lifetime Turkey will also rollout popular formats adapted for Turkey’s audience. The channel debuts with a live broadcast, Let Life Begin, hosted by Turkey’s own Özge Uzun’s and […]
EchoStar-18 has arrived at Arianespace’s launch site in French Guiana. It arrived at Félix Eboué Airport near Cayenne on April 21 aboard a chartered Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner, and was then moved to the launch preparation building at the spaceport. It will now be prepared for a currently scheduled June 5 launch aboard a giant […]
Canal+ chairman Vincent Bolloré has threatened to close down the broadcaster’s loss-making premium pay-TV channels if their balance sheets fail to improve in the coming months. Talking at Vivendi’s general meeting of shareholders, Bolloré warned that Canal+ Group could divest the pay-TV unit to concentrate on its distribution activities (Canalsat, Canal Overseas, StudioCanal) with beIN […]