Amino Technologies, a provider of digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution, has provided a trading update for the year ended November 30th 2016. As announced on October 10th 2016, the Ccmpany set out better than expected trading for the full year driven by record orders in August coupled with favourable […]
Europe’s commercial broadcasters have asked the European Parliament to ensure the proposed revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive be future proof and ensure fair competition. The call came as MEPs, Member State attachés and commercial broadcasters gathered in the European Parliament to focus on advertising as part of the ongoing EU revision. The Directive […]
According to equity analysts at investment bank Exane-BNP/Paribas, the French media conglomerate Vivendi is busy buying up ordinary shares in Telecom Italia (TI). The bank says that since November 23rd Vivendi has nought 118 million shares in the Italian telco. This takes Vivendi’s stake in TI up from 23.15 per cent to 24.19 per cent. […]
Following Sky’s example, having invested €4 million in French OTT platform Molotov last September, French TV transmission services company TDF has taken a minority stake in the freemium and pay TV channel distributor. TDF, which has been a key player into the development of the French DTT channels, has struck a strategic deal with Molotov […]
Axonista, the interactive video solutions provider, has appointed former AOL President of Video and Studios, Dermot McCormack to its board. McCormack will join Axonista’s board as a Non-Executive Director to provide valuable expertise and experience as the company extends its footprint in the US market. McCormack has an extensive background across emerging digital content and […]
Chinese telecommunications company Beijing Xinwei Technology Group is to buy Israeli satellite communications company, Spacecom, for $190 million (€177m), according to Israeli press reports, unconfirmed by the company. A Statement from the company issued to advanced-television.com said: “Spacecom wishes to inform the public that merger talks with Luxembourg Space Telecommunication S.A., a Luxembourg company and […]
Companies will be able to build ultrafast, ‘full-fibre’ broadband networks more cheaply and easily, using infrastructure owned by incumbent telco BT, under initial plans set out by UK comms regulator Ofcom. In July 2016, Ofcom detailed a new strategy to promote large-scale roll-out of ultrafast broadband, based on cable and fibre lines that go all […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, has released test suite version 9.0 which will support the HbbTV 2 specification. The new test suite expands on the existing suite, making it 50 per cent larger with […]
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has appointed an ex-businessman as its next president, and replacing what Japan’s local press has described as its “gaffe prone” Katsuto Momii after just one term in office. The new man is Ryoichi Ueda (67) a governor at NHK (since June 2013) and who previously served as EVP at Mitsubishi Corp in […]
Despite the ongoing dispute with French group Vivendi, Italian broadcaster Mediaset is pushing ahead with its pan-European digital platform. According to Mediaset VP and CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi, although the original idea was proposed to Vivendi, the project could now include broadcasters in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. He explained that the platform is […]