Two licensees from Skelmersdale in the northwest of England have been found guilty of ten offices of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Sara Jones and Karl Jones of the Old Toby Inn in Skelmersdale have been ordered to pay £10,908 (€12,156) after […]
Newzroom Afrika has been confirmed as the successful news channel bidder after DStv pulled the plug on Afro Worldview, previously owned by the Guptas as the highly controversial ANN7 news channel. Commercial terms for the carriage have not been released, although there is strong pressure in South Africa for the contract terms to be made […]
Entertainment technologist IMAX Corporation and audio specialist DTS have partnered for the next-generation of home entertainment with the launch of the IMAX Enhanced programme. The new certification and licensing programme combines the highest-end consumer electronics products with IMAX digitally re-mastered 4K HDR content and DTS audio technologies to offer consumers a new level of quality […]
The European Commission (EC) is looking to set a 30 per cent “local quota” on video streaming operators such as Netflix and Amazon Studios for their European output. Reportedly the EC will vote on the proposal in December. Equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNPP, quoting a Variety story, say that the new rules will not […]
The Spanish Government will finance DTT migration with grants – to be specified in 2019 – to citizens and TV operators. State Secretary for Digital Advance, Francisco Polo, said the grants will be included in the next State Budget. The migration will start in January 2019 and will be initially completed in 2020 if no […]
Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee, has deemed eSports as being too violent to be part of the Olympics. Bach said the “so-called killer games” which promote violence or discrimination cannot be accepted into the Olympic Games. “If you have egames where it’s about killing somebody, this cannot be brought into line […]
During the 75th Venice International Film Festival, some 165 screenwriters and directors across Europe have come together in the “Venice Declaration” to call on the European Parliament to adopt legislation that puts authors at the heart of copyright and of the European cultural and creative industries, including online. On September 12th, the members of the […]
Freedom of the press is often cited as a basic requirement of a genuinely free and democratic society. And it is true that a universal early symptom of advancing authoritarianism is curbs on a free press: look at Russia, look at Turkey, look at any historical example of a totalitarian takeover of any previously free […]
Earlier in August Nigeria’s Federal High Court ordered MultiChoice Nigeria to stop an increase in pay-TV subscription rates that it had imposed on its DStv service. The price hikes averaged some 7.5 per cent. MultiChoice ignored the ruling, brought in an action by the nation’s Consumer Protection Council (CPC). The Court’s interim ruling was made […]
Saudi Arabia has been banned from paying to promote its reform agenda on UK television screens following a ruling by Ofcom. The Saudi government had paid to air a 60 second commercial– which included images of women driving, theatres being reopened and members of the Saudi royal family – during this year’s visit to the […]