India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has reported that hundreds of channels are transmitting advertising breaks that exceed TRAI’s rules. TRAI has various limits in place for ad-breaks and found that 104 non-news channels were airing more than 12 minutes per hour. Another 23 news channels also exceeded these limits. Almost all of India’s Hindi-language channels […]
Technicolor, the French multinational corporation that provides services and products for the media and entertainment industries, has posted its results for the full year 2016. Group revenues increased by 34.8 per cent at constant currency, reflecting the change in scale of Connected Home and Entertainment Services. The two segments combined recorded revenue growth of 48.2 […]
Satellite operator SES is due to unveil its full-year results on February 24th. Analysts are expecting Q4 revenues to be around €575 million. Sami Kassab, equity analyst at Exane/BNP-Paribas, said he expects SES to report 2.5 per cent organic revenue decline for the full year with flat (0.3 per cent) growth in Video and strong […]
Brian Robbins, the CEO and co-founder of AwesomenessTV, is stepping down. AwesomenessTV started life in 2012, as a YouTube channel aimed at teens and tweens, but has evolved with the digital video landscape and now has content in places like ITV2 and Netflix, and is valued at $650 million. In 2013, DreamWorks Animation bought AwesomenessTV […]
At its 85th meeting, the DVB Steering Board approved updates to TS 102 809 “Signaling and carriage of interactive applications and services in Hybrid broadcast/broadband environments” introducing an authentication mechanism to help prevent ‘Man in the Middle’ attacks in Smart TVs supporting interactivity. This update was triggered by a security researcher demonstration showing that it […]
In a deal that adds a strong portfolio of wireless and wired networking products and key technologies to address rapidly growing wireless broadband markets for enterprise and service providers, entertainment and communications technologist ARRIS International and semiconductor connectivity solutions specialist Broadcom have entered into an agreement for ARRIS to acquire Brocade Communication Systems Inc.’s Ruckus Wireless […]
Responding to the needs to reflect the UK and the people it serves, the BBC has reviewed its programming and services in the nations. As a result of this, the BBC will be making significant changes and major investments in the nations. The BBC says it wants to do even more to reflect Scotland on […]
Amazon Channels head Michael Paull is to be CEO of BAMTech – the video streaming tech firm with $1 billion backing from Disney. Paull has worked at Amazon since 2012, most recently with Amazon Channels worldwide,where he was responsible for its global content, product, technology, operations and marketing. Before that he oversaw Prime. BAMTech started […]
US pay-TV operator DISH Network activated a net 661,000 new subscribers, either to its DTH operation or to viewers of its Sling TV pay-TV ‘lite’ service, during the fourth quarter of 2016. Gross additions during Q4 were 694,000. Nevertheless, year-on-year subsscriber numbers were down. The company closed Q4 with 13.671 million pay-TV subscribers, compared to […]
A new development on pirated films and music online comes as a step forward on the road to reducing mass copyright infringement. However, for the UK’s Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), as intellectual property (IP) plays an important role in supporting the UK’s economy, the Government must take a keener interest in enforcement measures to […]