The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is launching a new campaign – Keep Media Good (KMG) – which demonstrates the positive impact public service media (PSM) has on societies. This is the first time PSM organisations across Europe have come together with one unified voice to champion PSM, in the face of a proliferation of fake […]
The Walt Disney Company has announced the appointment of Abhishek Maheshwari as country head for India. Maheshwari joined Disney in 2012 as VP and head of corporate strategy and business development. In 2014, he was put in charge of the consumer products business and earlier this year was also given charge of the company’s Integrated […]
Reports have emerged that 21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Walt Disney Co. Any such deal would not involve all of Fox’s assets, according to people with knowledge of the talks. It is understood that Fox believes that a more tightly-focused group of properties around news and […]
The semiconductor sector looks set for further consolidation with the confirmation that Broadcom, a leading semiconductor device supplier to the wired, wireless, enterprise storage, and industrial end markets, proposes to acquire all of the outstanding shares of technology company Qualcomm for per share consideration of $70.00 in cash and stock in a transaction valued at […]
The golden age of television is just getting started, according to Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content at Sky. Writing an Opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph, Davey says there has never been a better time for it. “But not according to the BBC. In a speech last week, Tony Hall, the BBC director-general, said the […]
Ofcom has ruled that the Fox News shows Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight breached British broadcasting impartiality rules. The rulings referred to the Manchester Arena bombing in May and Donald Trump’s executive order in January that restricted travel to the US from seven majority-Muslim countries. Sky pulled Fox News from its platform in Britain in […]
Members and supporters of the newly-established Coalition Against Piracy gathered at the annual CASBAA Convention in Macau on November 7th to mark the initiation of joint work in southeast Asia against Illicit Streaming Devices (ISDs) and the app networks that underpin them. In toasting the launch, Birathon Kasemsri, Chief Commercial Officer, True Visions Group, described […]
Inside Secure, at the heart of security solutions for mobile and connected devices, has acquired SypherMedia International, a California-based security solutions and services provider, for up to $10 million, including a potential earn-out of up to $3 million. SypherMedia is a key player in embedded security from product design to product life cycle management. SypherMedia’s […]
Spectral Edge, experts in computational photography using image fusion, has announced that Dr Ilya Romanenko has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He will lead an expanded Research and Development (R&D) team in its Cambridge office, which will combine Spectral Edge’s Phusion image processing technology with a new approach based on Deep Learning. […]
The UK industry body for digital, cable and satellite broadcasters and on-demand services has warned that TV firms may have to move some operations abroad if there is no Brexit trade deal. Speaking to the BBC, Adam Minns, executive director of Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) said that thousands of jobs could potentially be at stake […]