A report on the independent ‘OurBeeb’ web-site from Hussein Kesvani, who is head of communications at the Theos think tank, argues that far from scrapping the coverage of religion and ethics, coverage of the topics should be increased. Earlier this year a British Social Attitudes survey said that about half of Britons were “irreligious”. Kesvani […]

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has standardised three more components of the next-generation television system that is expected to transform the ability of broadcasters to deliver mobile, interactivity and higher quality content. ATSC members have ratified the Link Layer Protocol and Audio and Video Watermark Emission standards to be part of the ATSC 3.0 […]

Turkish police raided the offices of broadcaster ‘imc TV’ and cut its transmission on October 4th, after the station was pulled off the air last week over allegations of “spreading terrorist propaganda.” Reported by BBC Monitoring, the police raid was carried out while imc TV was live on air, as it was reporting on the […]

Two fraudsters who supplied illegal broadcasts of Premier League football to commercial premises have been ordered by the court to pay close to £1 million (€1.14m) – which will go back into the ‘public purse’. The individuals behind the company Digicams, Simon Hopkins and Leon Passlow, were found guilty of supplying a variety of systems […]

Andrew Griffith, chief operating officer and CFO of Sky, has called for Openreach, BT’s broadband infrastructure arm, to be separated from the telco to fix what he calls “Britain’s lagging Internet”. Writing an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph, Griffith argues that there is a fundamental conflict of interest while Openreach remains vertically integrated within […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking aimed at fostering consumer choice and access to diverse programming on television. The proposed rules may prohibit the use of certain clauses in pay-TV programming distribution contracts that impede carriage of independent and diverse programming. Specifically, the proposed rules would prevent pay-TV providers […]

Turkey’s recent political problems have resulted in 12 TV channels being taken off air by Türksat. Their removal follows the issue of a State of Emergency decree, and subsequently published in the country’s Official Gazette.  The TV channels removed from Türksat include Hayatın Sesi, Van TV, Jiyan TV, Azadi TV and Zarok TV. Their broadcasts […]

Following mounting criticism from certain parties and support from others, the FCC has announced that its proposed Set-Top Box Order has been removed from the September 29 Open Meeting Agenda. The proposal will go on the Commission’s circulation list and remain under consideration by Commissioners. In a Statement, Chairman Tom Wheeler, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and […]

UK Minister for Digital and Culture Matt Hancock has declared TV to have been one of the UK’s greatest success stories and vowed to support the industry as it addresses a number of challenges, in particular the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Delivering a Keynote address at the RTS London Conference – his first to […]