Last week, a French Tribunal found – apparently decisively – that Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat is distributing pirated signals from beoutQ. The legal action had been brought by Qatar’s BeIN Media Group which has suffered badly at the hands of the pirates. beIN’s case was brought before the President of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris […]
Red Eléctrica has organised a €500 million credit line in order to partly fund its purchase of Spanish satellite operator Hispasat. Red Eléctrica, in a statement, said the funding was secured on June 12th and will run for a 5 year period, potentially extendable to 7 years. Red Eléctrica agreed in February to buy Abertis’ […]
Just one month until age verification for adult content is launched in the UK, the digital rights and freedom campaigner Open Rights Group has warned that the Government is failing to protect the privacy and security of adults who watch such content online. Open Rights Group has analysed the BBFC’s Age-verification Certificate Standard, which outlines […]
Vimeo, the online video platform, has announced support for a new royalty-free video codec, AV1. The AV1 codec enables HD and UHD video content to be streamed to audiences at a reduced bitrate without compromising visual quality. “AV1 is setting a new standard for video compression and delivery over the web, and will greatly improve […]
La Liga, Spain’s top flight football league, has been fined €250,000 for using its mobile phone app to spy on millions of fans as part of a ploy to catch venues showing unlicensed broadcasts of matches. The country’s data protection agency said the league’s app, which was marketed as a tool to track game scores, schedules […]
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit aircraft satellite launch company is suing OneWeb – in which Virgin was originally a shareholding partner – over a cancelled contract to launch batches of its satellites. Virgin commenced its action on June 4th in New York’s Southern District Court, and OneWeb must file a response by June 25th. The […]
Ajit Pai, the Chairman of the FCC, along with two of his key Commissioners, met with the FCC oversight committee on June 12th at the US Senate on Capitol Hill, and were specifically questioned on the C-Band Alliance’s scheme to reassign 180 MHz of spectrum for 5G over the US. What followed were very timely […]
£40 million is to be invested in 5G testbed and trial projects across UK industry as part of Government plans to improve mobile connectivity. Previous investment in the 5G testbeds and trials programme has driven work in the healthcare, tourism, transport and broadcasting sectors. The latest investment will support similar work in the logistics and […]
Simulmedia has closed a $29 million Series E equity investment round, led by long-time investor Union Square Ventures through their new 2019 Opportunity Fund. All existing institutional investors, including Avalon Ventures, WarnerMedia and Valiant Capital, are also participating. In additional news, David Levy, former president of Turner Broadcasting and longtime senior executive at Time Warner […]
Netflix has announced that Matthew Aldrich has come on board to oversee the development and creative live-action adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia series. He will work across both series and film and serve as a creative architect on all projects under the deal. Aldrich most recently co-wrote Coco for Disney and Pixar […]