Global sports provider Eleven Sports has announced that Anouk Mertens will become Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Eleven Sports Group. Mertens has served as Managing Director of Eleven Sports in Belgium and Luxembourg since October 2015, turning the business profitable in under three years and achieving 100 per cent household distribution across the market. […]
David Wheeldon, Group Director of Policy and Public Affairs for Sky, has suggested that that UK’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) should be working with platforms to make their content available in all ways that viewers want and can discover it, rather than keeping it in proprietary walled garden apps then demanding those apps are prominent […]
The pirate television service known as ‘BTV’ must cease the illegal retransmission of channels, stop selling its BTV set-top box, and pay damages of $6.6 million (€5.84m), according to a recent ruling by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The BTV set-top box, which illegally delivers a variety of TV […]
On October 29th a 64-page document was submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and expanding considerably the C-Band Alliance’s (CBA) proposal to release 200 MHz of satellite spectrum (in the 3.7-4.2 GHz band) for 5G use over the US. The FCC filing was followed up by the CBA’s Preston Padden (EVP at the Alliance) […]
The Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) – set up to combat the threat of organised crime across the seven police forces in the Eastern Region of the United Kingdom – has secured the repayment of more than £13,000 (€14,926) from a convicted trader, after he had evaded payment for over two years. William Marston, […]
Client advice to investors from analysts at Deutsche Bank is to get out of any holdings in 5 major European commercial broadcasters. The 5 are: Germany’s RTL, France’s TF1, Mediaset Spain, Spain’s AtresMedia (Antenna 3) and France’s M6. The bank argues that the (approx) 30 per cent fall in the ‘broadcasting’ sector’s share price this […]
There are Boardroom changes taking place at troubled satellite operator Avanti Communications. Andy Green, currently the senior independent director will leave the Board on January 31st 2019. Paul Walsh (previously head of spirits business Diagio), and Avanti’s Chairman, will reportedly step down next year, and it is likely that he will be replaced by Alan […]
Basque-Country cable operator Euskaltel is at a crossroads in deciding whether to stay local and consolidate its position in the north of Spain, or go national to compete with Movistar, Vodafone, Orange and MasMovil. Its new major shareholder, the UK’s Zegona, is pushing for a national approach and is willing to take the control of […]
The US Federal Communications Commission is undertaking its first-ever high-band 5G spectrum auction. Bidding is beginning on spectrum in the 28 GHz band (Auction 101), which will be followed by bidding for spectrum in the 24 GHz band (Auction 102). The FCC is making 1.55 gigahertz of spectrum available through these two auctions. These auctions […]
ArianeGroup, the rocket launching joint venture owned by Airbus and Safran, is to trim staff by 2,300 between now and 2022. ArianeGroup, in a statement, said that the ending of development of its Ariane 6 ‘next generation’ rocket as well as the need to keep Europe’s rocket launch business competitive “compelled ArianeGroup to reduce its […]