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Isle of Media premieres promo

The Isle of Media – the public, private partnership launched to market globally the Isle of Man’s media cluster and guide media ventures locating on the Isle of Man – has released its first promotional video, designed to attract creative and digital businesses to the Isle of Man. The video will be showcased at a […]

October 12, 2018By Colin Mann

Switzerland to cease DVB-T broadcasting in 2019

Switzerland will abandon DTT broadcasts during 2019 opting instead for more widespread technologies such as cable, Internet and satellite, which also offer the possibility of reception of HD channels. This follows the awarding, by the country’s Federal Council, of a new concession to public broadcaster SSR which will come into force on January 1st 2019 […]

October 11, 2018From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Review: BBC delivers ⅓ of £800m savings target

An efficiency review finds the BBC has delivered a third of the £800 million (€915m) of savings needed by 2021/22, but warns it has become increasingly difficult to make more savings without further impacting services. The report shows how cutting property and senior manager costs, renegotiating major contracts and simplifying the BBC have helped ensure […]

October 11, 2018

UK media tax breaks work says BFI

An independent new report published demonstrates the value of the government tax reliefs across the UK’s screen industries, seeding unprecedented levels of production, creating thousands of jobs, growing businesses and infrastructure, generating record levels of inward investment, boosting exports of UK productions and services internationally and creating spillover benefits for other industries claims the BFI. […]

October 10, 2018

Vendor boost for ATSC 3.0

The deployment of the ATSC 3.0 Next Gen TV broadcast standard in the US has received a boost with the news that Alticast, an end-to-end media solutions provider, Strategy & Technology (S&T), an independent developer of interactive TV technologies, and UniSoft, a software company specialising in broadcast provisioning, monitoring and testing, will demonstrate how the […]

October 9, 2018

MUSO launches Piracy by Industry Dashboard

Digital piracy data analysis specialist MUSO has launched its Piracy by Industry Dashboard, which will give trade bodies and government-level organisations access to month-by-month piracy data across all their industries. This rolling insight will allow trade bodies to gain a more accurate view of piracy and enable them to regularly assess the effectiveness of their […]

October 8, 2018By Colin Mann

EE 5G Canary Wharf trial

Mobile telco EE, part of the BT Group, has switched on its first live 5G trial site in Montgomery Square, Canary Wharf, London. This will be the UK’s first live 5G trial, and is a major milestone in the roll-out of the next generation of mobile networks. With 150,000 people coming to the Canary Wharf […]

October 8, 2018By Colin Mann

Concerns over FCC comments on C-band

A recent 5G Summit meeting in the US saw the Federal Communications Commission’s chairman Ajit Pai update and outline the FCC’s thoughts on the proposed C-band restructuring by the new Consortium of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat. Chairman Pai reminded delegates of the FCC’s recent work, saying: “The FCC has been extremely aggressive in making […]

October 8, 2018

MPAA’s  Rivkin champions creativity and accountability

In a keynote address delivered to leaders from multiple countries at the Austrian EU Presidency Conference hosted by the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin has highlighted how greater online accountability is fundamental to a safe, thriving digital ecosystem that supports creativity and innovation. “The Internet […]

October 8, 2018By Colin Mann

Isle of Man plans full-fibre future

The Isle of Man’s Department for Enterprise has released a National Telecommunications Strategy which will be presented to the island’s legislative body Tynwald later in October 2018. The strategy, based over six key themes and 22 actions, sets to position the Isle of Man at the forefront of telecoms innovation, with a telecommunications infrastructure that […]

October 8, 2018By Colin Mann