Premium content services provider Vubiquity has become a member of the Digital Production Partnership (DPP), the professional media industry’s business change network representing members from the entire digital supply chain. The DPP provides media organisations with a forum to work together to define standards and help bring about a fully digital, global, Internet-enabled TV supply […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the anticipated acquisition by Liberty Media of Formula One Group. The CMA is considering whether it is or may be the case that this transaction has resulted in the creation of a relevant merger situation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002 and, if, […]
SFR Group and Altice have been notified of the decision of France’s Autorité de la concurrence (Competition Authority) levying a €80 million ‘gun-jumping’ fine in connection with the 2014 acquisition of SFR and Virgin Mobile. According to the Group, the denounced practices, which aimed to make the new entity operational as soon as possible after […]
Frédéric Bokobza, Deputy Director General of the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA), the French media regulator, says that next year’s June 2017 review of the Canal Plus formal “competition restrictions and regulations” could be modified to benefit C+. The CSA has yet to publish its own recommendations, and Bokobza, in discussion with equity analysts at […]
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has welcomed the order passed by the Honourable Delhi High Court dismissing the nine petitions dealing with the time extension for implementing digital addressable system (DAS) in certain areas of Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and Uttar Pradesh under Phase III, the deadline for which had expired on 31 […]
Hong Kong-based AsiaSat has been granted a US patent to improve satellite connectivity to aircraft, and which AsiaSat says will help supply better In Flight Entertainment (IFE) coverage with aircraft and yet achieve this with fewer satellite beams. AsiaSat says: “The patent is about the methods and systems that enable effective aviation communication via satellite […]
Cloud Force Digital Media, enabling content providers to expand their distribution globally on Video Service Providers’ interactive platforms, announced it has joined the Reference Design Kit (RDK) community and also announced a partnership with TO THE NEW. Cloud Force has licensed the RDK technology to build, distribute and monetise Internet applications for operators, global programmers, […]
ETNO, the Association representing Europe’s leading providers of digital communications and services, has presented a new report on “Building the gigabit society: an inclusive path toward its realisation”, prepared by BCG – the Boston Consulting Group. A few weeks from the presentation of the European Commission Communication on the gigabit society and of the new […]
Greece – not for the first time – is again in political crisis, although this time it is the auction of 4 television channels which has created considerable pain for the country’s fragile parliament. On November 3rd Greece’s parliament said it was now looking to annul a law that saw a transfer of control over […]
Spacecom has been informed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) that IAI’s insurers will pay a sum of $196 million (€176.5m), the full amount that was paid to IAI for the construction and delivery of the AMOS-6 satellite that was destroyed on September 1 in an explosion at the Kennedy Space Center. The sum will be […]