Polish interior minister Joachim Brudziński has called for the EU and NATO to take a “joint stance” on whether to exclude Chinese equipment vendor Huawei from their markets. The call follows one of Huawei’s employees being arrested in Poland on spying charges. A former Polish security official was also arrested. Huawei has since sacked the […]
A+E Networks’ UK head Heather Jones has been elected chair of the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA), the industry body for multichannel broadcasters. As chair, Jones will lead COBA’s board in setting the strategy of the association and overseeing the work of its executive. She will serve as chair of COBA for a two-year period and […]
Alita: Battle Angel, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment from visionary filmmakers James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez, has become the latest film to receive an exclusive trailer as part of pro-copyright education body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness’s Moments Worth Paying For campaign. “You can’t bring a story like Alita to life without […]
Spain’s Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), the National Commission of Markets and Competition, will sanction commercial broadcasters Mediaset and Atresmedia for an abuse of their dominant position, according to business daily El Economista. The fine can be up to 10 per cent of the sales of each of the two groups […]
Cable News Egypt (CNE) has been cut from beIN Sports television distribution, with beIN citing a contract dispute with CNE. The service cut came after “lengthy negotiations” to agree commercial terms for a new contract with Cable Network Egypt (CNE), beIN said in a statement, without providing further detail of the terms. “As such we […]
Cable Europe has launched a White Paper with specific policy recommendations to develop and deliver the broadband infrastructure of the future. The paper is designed to inform and support EU policy through the election cycle of 2019 and the five-year mandate to come. It places in social, economic and technological context the challenges of framing […]
Trade body DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group is pioneering a new direction in media industry advocacy with the formation of the DTC Alliance as a subset of DEG membership. Every major media company and TV network will launch a Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) streaming service in the next five years, representing a significant new chapter in how […]
South Africa’s broadcasting regulator ICASA has unveiled its draft laws designed to make key sporting events free to viewers. ICASA’s Draft Sports Broadcasting Services Amendment Regulations are expected to severely impact the broadcasting monopoly that the country’s pay-TV giant DStv has on sports. The new rules, if adopted, are likely to dramatically cut the cash […]
The C-Band Alliance (of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat) sent an email to the FCC on January 2nd which strongly rebutted allegations from US cable operators Comcast, Charter Communications and others that its plan to repurpose C-band spectrum over the US through a ‘market based approach’ was “improper and/or a departure from FCC precedent”. The […]
UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he has “very deep concerns” about Huawei being involved in upgrading the UK’s mobile network. Williamson told The Times: “I have grave, very deep concerns about Huawei providing the 5G network in Britain. It’s something we’d have to look at very closely.” Australia, New Zealand and the US […]