November 25th saw Pakistan’s Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) order all private TV news channels to immediately close during a crack-down on protesters in the nation’s capital, Islamabad. Reuters said that some 8500 police were attempting to bring a protest of 2500 Islamists under control. The PEMRA suspension was because of an instruction to all […]
NBN Co, the body responsible for the roll-out of Australia’s national broadband network, has temporarily paused all new orders over its Hybrid Coaxial-Fibre (HFC) network access network. This pause will be in effect until incremental field work is undertaken to raise the quality of service for end users. The changes to the HFC (also known […]
South Africa’s public broadcaster SABC wants the nation’s digital pay-TV broadcasters, Naspers-owned DStv, to start paying to carry SABC’s broadcasts. Currently, DStv can carry SABC1, SABC2 and SABC3 free of charge. SABC is the country’s Number 1 channel in terms of viewer popularity. SABC has formally written to the country’s media regulator ICASA to change […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, the licensees of three premises in the North and Midlands regions of England have been found to be infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports without having the required commercial agreements. Gail Asquith of Travellers Rest, Bradford and James McKeever of Winning Post, Worcester both had previous criminal […]
Research from Creative Skillset, the UK industry skills body for the screen-based creative industries, reveals the impact on the UK’s High End Television (HETV) production sector from the recent growth in FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) and increased home grown production activity. The research shows
The companies responsible for UK free-to-air DTT platform Freeview have called on industry and policy makers to ‘step up’ to meet the profound changes in television being driven by American tech firms. Guy North, Freeview’s Managing Director, and Jonathan Thompson, Digital UK’s CEO, told delegates at the Outside the Box industry event in London that there […]
A new ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) ruling means broadband firms will no longer be able to advertise their fast net services based on the speeds just a few customers get. Currently ISPs are allowed to use headline speeds that only 10 per cent of customers will actually receive. From May 23rd 2018, adverts must be […]
The US Justice Department has charged a part-time Iranian government hacker with infiltrating HBO and trying to extort the premium broadcaster, a move that comes amid allegations the charges were rushed to bolster President Donald Trump’s case against Tehran. The man, Behzad Mesri, is charged with orchestrating the high-profile hack of the US cable channel […]
Popular music site Gigwise has partnered with pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness and its FindAnyFilm.com search tool as part of a site relaunch that includes a renewed focus on film alongside traditional music content. The partnership means that as well as a raft of new entertainment editorial, users will be […]
Last night saw the launch event for Media Summits and its series on the Media and Brexit. In typically forthright form, the former Digital Economy and Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told an audience of top TV practitioners and professional advisors: “Sorry, we really stuffed it up for you.” Vaizey said he hoped the current DCMS ministers […]