The UK’s annual television licence fee is to rise to £150.50 (€171) from £147, the government has announced. The increase, which will come into effect on April 1st, follows last year’s rise to £147 from £145.50. Last year the government announced that the licence fee would rise in line with inflation for the next five […]
Equity researchers from Deutsche Bank have issued a note to investors following the news that German commercial network broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has appointed a new CEO – former Dyson executive Max Conze – to replace Thomas Ebeling. As the researchers remind investors following the publication of results February 22nd, Pro7Sat.1 has issued three profits warnings over […]
Disney has lost a bid to stop US movie rental company Redbox from reselling download codes for its movies. Redbox rents and sells movies via thousands of automated kiosks placed throughout the country that dispense DVD and Blu-ray discs. The company bought Disney movies on DVD to offer for rental in these kiosks, and the […]
Apple has appointed Gaumont Television executive Carol Trussell as the head of production for Apple’s video programming division. Trussell was a producer for HBO’s hit fantasy-horror True Blood, and additional credits include Roswell, Unnatural History and Hannibal. She has served as the head of production at Gaumont Television since 2013. Apple has hired notable executives […]
The Advanced Television Systems Committee’s Board of Directors has selected Madeleine Noland of LG Electronics to lead the ATSC’s primary technology group supporting implementation of the new ATSC 3.0 next-generation broadcast TV standard. She will succeed Triveni Digital’s Dr. Richard Chernock as Chairman of the ATSC Technology Group in May. “Throughout the development of the […]
Alchemiya Media has launched a £1 million investment round on UK based equity crowdfunding platform CrowdCube – a public equity investment platform. The VoD service offers inspirational content about the arts, heritage, music, food, travel, and culture of the Muslim world and has been dubbed ‘the Netflix of Islam’. “Our content celebrates the very best […]
MásMóvil, the fourth ranked Spanish telco, and Huawei are preparing to launch their pay-TV offer within the next few weeks. They have entered into an alliance with Agile Content, a specialist in TV content and big data, to provide the TV service. With this agreement, MásMóvil and Huawei aim to avoid paying the 0.7 per […]
Roku reported healthy growth in subscribers and streaming hours during the last three months of 2017 but a downbeat financial forecast and recent steep stock rises, saw the shares of the streaming device manufacturer take a hammering. Although Roku’s Q1 revenue forecast only narrowly missed Wall Street targets, the stock’s big rise in recent months […]
The Australian creative industries’ fight against piracy has claimed a significant victory, with new, previously unreleased research showing that court-ordered site blocks, year-on-year, led to a 25 per cent reduction in piracy overall and a 53 per cent reduction in use of the online pirate sites subject to a blocking order. Incopro’s Australian Site-Blocking Efficacy […]
Canadian cable and media players have secured a significant victory in their battle against pirated content with a panel of federal judges backing their appeal in a legal battle against the Montreal-based operator of a website that makes it easier to stream video online. BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. launched legal proceedings […]