The DTG, the UK’s collaboration centre for innovation in digital media technology, has published its D-Book 11, the only universally deployed technical standard for TV and DTT in the UK. The D-Book is updated annually with the collaboration of industry, underpinning Freeview, YouView, Freesat, EE TV, BT TV and TalkTalk TV. D-Book 11 changes and […]
Alex Mahon, Chief Executive of UK Public Service Broadcaster Channel 4, and the Channel 4 Board have confirmed that Leeds will be the location of its new National HQ and Bristol and Glasgow will be the locations of its two new Creative Hubs. Channel 4 announced its 4 All the UK strategy in March 2018, […]
French commercial broadcast group TF1 has posted growing results for the first nine months of 2018, boosted by advertising, distribution agreements with telcos and the recent consolidation after the acquisition of website Aufeminin. However, the net profit attributable to the group was €81.7 million, down 4.1 per cent, TF1 Group has achieved a revenue increase […]
Eutelsat unveiled its Q1 results (to September 30th) and warned of slower progress for the rest of its fiscal year. The results were issued after the market closed on October 30th. As the market opened on October 31st, its share price crashed 12.37 per cent to €18.34. The revenue news was generally bad, and given […]
Intelsat’s CEO Stephen Spengler told analysts during its Q3 conference call that the C-band Alliance’s (CBA) plan to free up C-band capacity for the USA’s speedy adoption of 5G would be limited to 200 MHz, and that this bandwidth was the highest slice of spectrum likely to be available in the short-to-medium term. Spengler said […]
The Auckland High Court has ruled that Internet-streaming service My Box cannot be represented as legal, and that using My Box (and other units like it) to show SKY movies, TV and sports programmes breaches copyright. Sophie Moloney, SKY’s General Counsel, welcomed the ruling. “This decision, along with the recent ruling against Fibre TV boxes in […]
Most ‘broadcasters’ accept a three-to-four or more year wait for profits to start flowing after a launch into a new market. Not so at Netflix, which has achieved profitability in its first year of activity in India. Netflix files its accounts with India’s Registrar of Companies. The profit was modest, at just $290,000 (on revenues […]
Hulu CEO Randy Freer has revealed that Heather Moosnick will join the company as Senior Vice President, Content Partnerships. In this role, Moosnick will drive the content acquisition strategy across the US streaming service’s live and on-demand programming – from full library series and movies to current network television shows and emerging content opportunities. As […]
After over 16 years with the company, Francisco Román will step down as chairman of Vodafone Spain and Vodafone Spain Foundation on December 31st. Román was a member of the team that, on behalf of Airtouch International, won the first Spanish telco licence in 1994 after market liberalisation. He was technology director of Airtel Movil, […]
The UK Government is to give rural areas a £200 million funding package as part of its full-fibre broadband pledge. The money – announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond as part of his Budget measures – has been allocated from the National Productivity Infrastructure Fund and is intended as a stimulus for companies […]