The UK government is considering whether failure to pay the TV licence fee should cease to be a criminal offence, Treasury minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed. Sunak revealed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the sanction for non-payment of the £154.50 charge, which funds the BBC. Prosecution for non-payment of the […]
A resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, has pleaded guilty to multiple criminal copyright and money laundering charges related to his running of iStreamItAll, one of the biggest illegal television show and movie streaming services in the United States, and to his working as a computer programmer with co-defendants to help build Jetflicks, a similarly large […]
LG Electronics has announced that its TVs are the first in the world to exceed the requirements established by the Consumer Technology Association to define the new generation of 8K Ultra HD products and services delivering four times more detail than 4K TV and 16 times more than HD. The official industry 8K Ultra HD […]
Filipino media and entertainment group ABS-CBN has filed a $4 million (€3.59m) lawsuit against a Texas resident and a streaming service for allegedly pirating its content through illegal set-top boxes. Anthony Brown and 1700 Cuts Technology were accused of selling the set-top boxes on Facebook, enabling buyers to access ABS-CBN’s live programming without paying appropriate […]
There wasn’t much ‘white smoke’ from the FCC’s chairman Ajit Pai in his statement on December 10th as regards to the upcoming C-Band auction. But the Senate Commerce Committee met and approved the 5G Spectrum Act which now goes to the Senate for a formal vote. Then to the House and then signed off by […]
LiveU has published its annual State of Live report based on data gathered from its global customer base of thousands of users. The findings reflect the substantial growth in IP news and sports broadcasting with a 50 per cent increase in the number of LiveU units used to stream live events and 250 per cent […]
MediaKind, a global player in media technology solutions and innovation, has shared its 2020 industry predictions courtesy of Principal Technologist Tony Jones and VP Portfolio Development Meir Lehrer. Jones’ predictions are: 1) The effect of emerging codecs in 2020 The media landscape in 2020 is fascinating. There has never been a time when so many […]
Discovery has pulled all of its channels from Dubai-based pay-platform OSN “with immediate effect”. A statement from Discovery said: “Discovery regrets to advise that despite negotiating in good faith for several months it has been forced to cease broadcast of our channels on OSN. Channels going dark include Discovery Channel, TLC, Discovery Science and Investigation […]
On December 10th in Washington DC the chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, was due to deliver a speech at the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) and observers were expecting some comments and his latest thoughts on C-Band, and the planned auction of satellite spectrum. Today, December 11th, the US Senate’s Committee on Commerce will […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has raised the possibility of scrapping the TV licence fee by admitting he is “certainly looking at” the issue. Ahead of the December 12th general election, Johnson questioned “how long” the current system of funding the BBC can be justified. When quizzed on the potential abolition of a licence fee […]