Barrie Woolston, formerly at Arqiva (as Commercial Director), has re-emerged as the Chief Commercial Officer at Encompass Digital Media. Their European HQ is in central London. Woolston position is a newly-created role at the business. OTT and TV technology delivery and production specialists Encompass have studios and live production stages at their Atlanta headquarters, as […]
Melissa Madden has been named Head of Marketing UK & International at A+E Networks. In her newly-created role, Madden will be responsible for marketing A+E Networks’ brands and content internationally and providing strategic marketing vision and guidance to regional marketing and sales teams across A+E’s channels and content distribution businesses. Madden will be responsible for […]
Sky has invested $2 million (€1.8m) in Caavo, a US-based consumer electronics start-up, in the latest of a series of investments in innovative, early-stage companies. Caavo was founded in 2015 by Andrew Einaudi, Ashish Aggarwal, Vinod Gopinath and Blake Krikorian with a vision to improve dramatically the in-home entertainment experience for consumers, by offering easy-to-use […]
The MPAA has formally submitted comments to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) identifying some of the world’s most notorious markets for the distribution of infringing film and television content. According to Anissa Brennan, Senior Vice President, International Affairs and Trade Policy, the filing is a sobering reminder of the scope and scale […]
With the goal of assuring quality consumer experience and interoperability between next-generation receivers and broadcast content, standards body the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) related to the development of Conformance Test Suite Development and Conformity Assessment programmes to support the implementation of the ATSC 3.0 next-generation television broadcast […]
Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, has acquired a significant minority stake in YuppTV for $50 million (€44.9m). YuppTV is an OTT video platforms for South Asian content offering live TV, catch-up TV and movies on-demand in 14 languages across the globe. […]
JB Perrette, President and CEO of Discovery Networks International, announced today a restructuring of its London-based creative teams in order to bolster the UK market as a significant source of content creation for the company’s global networks. The International Content Group, currently led by Marjorie Kaplan, will become part of the UK/Ireland business, under the […]
Vincent Bolloré’s investment company is increasing its stake in Vivendi SA to 20.4 per cent as the billionaire shows great confidence in the French media conglomerate trying to revive its TV business and expand in video games and telco operations. Bolloré Group is set to hold around 29 per cent of voting rights in Vivendi […]
October 13th will see Sky unveil its first-quarter results. Analysts are looking to the results to show the progress – or lack of it – in particular at its Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland divisions. Back in July 2014, BSkyB announced it was going to buy its German and Italian sister pay-TV broadcasters. The deal […]
The UK government is considering proposals to restrict betting commercials on daytime TV in its review into fixed-odds betting terminals. The move would be significant for broadcasters such as Sky and BT Sport, whose football coverage attracts million of pounds in revenue each year from betting ads. This summer Sky Sports made a three-year deal […]