Vodafone Spain and MTV have teamed up to launch two new TV programmes aimed at gamers that will combine music, entertainment, fashion, urban art and video games. The programmes, entitled +QGamers and MGZ!, will air exclusively on MTV, the first from Mondays to Fridays at 8:30pm and the second on Thursdays at 10:30pm. Both shows […]
Oculus Quest (formerly Oculus Santa Cruz) is the new class leader for premium/standalone VR, and looks like the ultimate expression of the early-stage VR 1.0 market, according to a report by Digi-Capital. Combining Oculus Go quality graphics with inside-out tracking and Touch controllers, it gives Facebook the most compelling version of the current state of […]
Eleven Sports and UFC have signed a new broadcast partnership for the UK and Ireland starting in January 2019. The global sports provider has secured the rights to all 42 live UFC events in 2019, as well as over 150 hours of UFC original and archive programming in a multi-year agreement. UFC Fight Nights […]
Italian free-to-air broadcaster Mediaset has extended its partnership with the electric street racing single-seater series Formula E to air live coverage of each race the ABB FIA Formula E Championship across Italy for the next five seasons. Building on the success of last season, which included impressive viewing figures from the inaugural race on the […]
Platform Communications, the technology communications expert, has revealed that the Platform Media Index for IBC 2018 reveals ‘Online Video’ and ‘Media Convergence’ were the hottest topics at the global broadcast industry show – accounting for more than a third of share of voice combined. The Index provides a snapshot of leading media technology trends, moves […]
BBC Two is being rebranded as the channel seeks to reinvent itself to take on the increasing number of online rivals. A full set of new idents, being launched from September 27th, will refresh the channel’s identity for the first time in twenty years, and are reflective of the channel’s commitment to specialism, challenging and […]
Africa and the Middle East (AME) pay-TV household penetration is expected to outpace all other major regions between 2017 and 2022, increasing from 16 per cent in 2017 to 23.2 per cent in 2022, according to data and analytics firm GlobalData. According to GlobalData’s report, Pay-TV Market Trends and Opportunities in Africa & the Middle […]
A study from International Data Corp (IDC), and based on its worldwide quarterly tracker of sales, says that global shipments of standalone and tethered Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) headsets will total 4.2 million units this full year, up 31 per cent on 2017. Looking ahead to 2022, shipments for these headsets is […]
The Netflix app has launched on UK OTT service NOW TV streaming devices. As well as adding Netflix to the wide range of apps already available, NOW TV also revealed the launch of its most powerful ever streaming device – the NOW TV Smart Box with 4K & Voice Search. Available from September 26th, the […]
Chinese OTT streaming platform, Huawei Video, which has launched in Spain and Italy, is to integrate premium content from Studio+, the short-form series SVoD mobile platform which was axed in France by Canal+ Group in July 2018. This follows a commercial partnership with Canal’s distribution subsidiary Thema. Huawei’s film and series platform, which is available […]