Toca Boca has revealed it is closing down Toca TV, its US SVoD kids app, just 9 months after it launched. The video platform for kids, which features original content produced by Toca Boca and costs $4.99 a month, will be discontinued as of March 31st. The app was rolled out in Canada, Australia and […]
French media group Vivendi has filed a civil petition demanding damages from Italian broadcaster Mediaset and Berlusconi family holding company Fininvest. Vivendi is arguing that it was the victim of a defamatory media campaign over its aborted agreement to take over pay-TV unit Mediaset Premium, legal sources told Italian media. The amount of the requested […]
The major US television networks have secured a favourable appeals court victory in a case centring on alleged illegal online retransmission of their programmes. FOX, ABC, NBC, and CBS have argued against OTT service FilmOn X’s retransmission in the courts for close to five years. FilmOn X contended that it was a cable system under […]
Ukraine says that the Belarus 24 satellite channel version of public broadcaster Belarus 1 TV channel is in violation of Ukrainian legislation because it persists in showing a map with the Crimea on some of its news programmes. BBC Monitoring, quoting Interfax-Ukraine news agency, says that the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting of […]
Google has has vowed to overhaul its advertising policies in response to a growing boycott of the company’s platforms – most noticably YouTube – from various brands and advertisers. Last week Advanced-Television reported that the UK government, Channel 4 and The Guardian had pulled their ads from YouTube after concerns that they were appearing alongside […]
Multinational telco Altice has entered into an agreement to acquire Teads, the online video advertising marketplace with an audience of more than 1.2 billion unique visitors including 720 million via mobile. Teads’ native video advertising solutions encompass a series of formats inserted deep into media content, like the inRead playing inside articles. Teads revenue grew […]
There’s been a fair amount of negative comment these past months about satellite’s future role and prospects for investors. In particular, the threat from broadcasters transferring their loyalties from DTH transmission to OTT supply via broadband is frequently seen as a negative from some DTH operators. ‘Not so,’ implies a major 15-page report to investors […]
South Korean conglomerate Eugene Investment & Securities, in a March 20th note to investors, says that it expects LG Display, the screen and panel division of LG Electronics, to report extremely buoyant Q1 results this week. Eugene says it expects quarterly sales for LG Display to be down 9.4 per cent (to 7.193 billion Won), […]
Altice, the Netherlands-based multinational telco, has announced that Bruno Zerbib has joined the management team as Altice Group Chief Technology Officer, effective immediately. He will lead Altice’s global technology and infrastructure journey. Zerbib joins us from Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he held the position of Vice President Product Management, Cloud BU, and before that he […]
Singapore media player Mediacorp has announced the appointment of Parminder Singh as its Chief Commercial and Digital Officer, the latest in a series of hires that reflect the company’s commitment to staying relevant in the digital age. Singh has spent over 20 years in global companies including Apple and IBM. His most recent appointments were […]