UK communications infrastructure and media services company, Arqiva, has announced the appointment of Sarah Jane Crabtree as Chief People Officer. Crabtree is appointed to the Arqiva Executive Committee, reporting to CEO Shuja Khan, to lead on the company’s people and culture agenda within its ‘Vision 2031’ strategic focus. Crabtree joins Arqiva following 17 years at […]
Arqiva and MediaKind have announced the next stage of their partnership with the launch of Arqplex, a new hybrid content processing service that is set to transform headend services for broadcast and OTT networks. The fully managed headend-as-a-service has been designed and developed for a broad range of broadcasters and network or platform operators, including […]
Fitch Ratings has affirmed UK transmission company Arqiva and its Arqiva Financing and Arqiva PP Financing plc’s whole business securitisation bonds at ‘BBB’. It has also affirmed Arqiva Broadcast Finance plc’s high-yield (HY) bonds at ‘B-‘. The Outlooks are Stable, says Fitch. Arqiva enjoys long-term RPI-linked contracts and a monopoly in terrestrial television and radio […]
Laurie Patten, Director of Strategy and Regulation at UK broadcast communications infrastructure provider Arqiva, has called in the government to guarantee the future of terrestrial TV and radio services in the UK to 2040 and beyond. Addressing the Westminster Media Forum on the future of UK media policy, Patten told delegates that a key question […]
Investment management body Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has agreed to terms with Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9) to sell its entire stake in UK broadcast and comms infrastructure provider Arqiva. CPP Investments first acquired an approximate 48 per cent stake in Arqiva in 2009, making this one of the Fund’s longest-standing investments in […]
A campaign to safeguard digital terrestrial TV and radio has been launched as research by Ipsos shows that nine in 10 people (90 per cent) across Great Britain want to see continued support for these services. Digital terrestrial television (DTT) is universally available across the UK. It doesn’t need a superfast broadband connection and there […]
Organisations delivering broadcasting services need urgently to review their contingency plans to avoid the kind of transmission failure that occurred at Yorkshire’s Bilsdale transmitter in 2021, UK comms regulator Ofcom has found. The recommendations come in Ofcom’s review of the Bilsdale Transmitter Fire, which looks at how the incident was handled and what lessons need […]
The fire at the giant Arqiva-owned Bilsdale TV and radio transmission mast in North Yorkshire – that wiped out TV signals for more than a half-million homes – was caused by water entering an electrical unit. The fire happened on August 10th 2021 and affected one of the most powerful TV towers in the UK. […]
UK communications infrastructure and media services provider Arqiva has launched Arqade, a self-service pay-per-use interchange for rights holders, broadcasters and platform operators. The cloud-based platform, which can also take content from conventional fibre and satellite inputs, delivers to TV channels, platforms and online services for streaming and video publishing – all with monitoring and end-to-end […]
Arqiva Group has announced that Shuja Khan will succeed Paul Donovan as CEO with effect from June 1st. Khan has been Chief Commercial Officer since January 2020. Khan has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the technology, media and communications sector. Prior to joining Arqiva he was Chief Commercial Officer for Cable & […]