ESPNPlayer.com will deliver live and on demand coverage of the 2018 X Games Norway in the UK, and across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). This year, X Games Norway will combined winter and summer events, hosting Skateboard Street competitions in downtown Oslo and Ski and Snowboard Big Air competitions at Fornebu in Baerum. The […]
INSIGHT TV, a UHD broadcasters and producer of native UHD HDR content, has announced the appointment of Gavin Ho as Technical Director, effective immediately. Based at the channel’s Dutch headquarters, Ho will manage INSIGHT TV’s technical direction and make sure its approaches are in line with the latest industry developments. Ho joins the company from […]
Turner Asia Pacific has announced the appointment of Jia Salindong-Du as Country Manager, Philippines. Salindong-Du is tasked with scaling Turner’s Kids and Entertainment business in the Philippines, which includes developing local content opportunities, creating greater consumer experiences and expanding the brands’ fanbase. She will also support ad-sales, and operate in tandem with the consumer products […]
Vodafone Spain ended the fiscal year at March 31st with a 2.1 per cent rise in its revenues to €4.5 million and an EBITDA increase of 5 per cent. The company significantly increased its subscribers with its convergent package Vodafone One now reaching over 2.5 million, up 154,000 on the previous year. FTTH subscribers amounted […]
One market analyst described Eutelsat Q3 results, released May 14th, as “idiosyncratic”. They were best described as flat, with CEO Rodolphe Belmer explaining that Eutelsat’s extremely important Hotbird prime video slot was holding steady in terms of revenues and with a fill rate that was showing a modest growth helped by favourable renewals and new […]
The Board of global telco Vodafone Group has revealed the succession plan for the role of Group Chief Executive. Effective October 1st 2018, Vittorio Colao will be succeeded by Group Chief Financial Officer Nick Read. At the date of the Group’s Annual General Meeting on July 27th 2018, Deputy CFO Margherita Della Valle will succeed […]
Cairo-based Nilesat, which with its orbital partner Eutelsat, supplies around 1000 TV and radio channels over the Middle East, has seen its profits tumble for its first quarter-year trading. In the three months to March 31st its net profit was $13.07 million, compared with $19.72 a year ago. This is a more dramatic drop than […]
With Liberty Global now busy concluding its huge asset sale of cable TV interests in Germany and Eastern Europe to Vodafone, it’s time to consider what might be next for John Malone’s voracious appetite for potential assets. While still very much a ‘rumour de jour’, it is ITV that – one way or another – […]
French telco Iliad has put in place a new executive team tasked with stepping up the pace of the Group’s business development in France and Italy. At its meeting held on May 14, 2018, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Thomas Reynaud as Iliad’s Chief Executive Officer. He will also represent the Company in relations with […]
Vimeo, the ad-free open video platform, has joined the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) as a Promoter member. AOMedia is a non-profit organisation formed by specialists in video with the aim to define and develop media technologies that address the need for an open and royalty-free standard for video compression and delivery over the web. […]