SES has announced that international sports broadcaster Setanta Sports will be broadcasting two sports channels in HD to 13 countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – via SES’s Astra 5B satellite at the 31.5 degrees East orbital position. Exclusive La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, […]
Eutelsat Communications and Orange have concluded a multi-year agreement for C-band capacity on the Eutelsat 3B satellite that broadens Orange’s satellite capabilities across Africa. The capacity will support a fast response to enterprises by Orange Business Services for communications anytime, anywhere as well as serve Orange’s own internal requirements. The newly leased resources complement C-band […]
Leena Singarajah, a media veteran with more than 18 years of experience in channel and content distribution, sales and business development, has been appointed as the Head of Distribution and Ad Sales, Scripps Networks Asia Pacific, and will be based in Singapore. Singarajah, who will begin immediately in a limited capacity, will start full time […]
In the wake of this year’s IBC show, Wyplay has revealed some insights on the structure of its Frog Community, now totalling 70 Licensee companies, amongst which 24 are technology services firms, with their staff dedicated to digital TV and convergence projects totalling more than 8,500 people. Thanks to these Scaling Partners, Wyplay can multiply […]
BSkyB’s proposed acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland has moved one step closer following an overwhelming vote in favour of a resolution seeking approval of the deal. The resolution was passed by the requisite majority of independent shareholders with 96 per cent voting in favour. BSkyB reports that it continues to progress the satisfaction […]
Turner Broadcasting is cutting 10 per cent of its global workforce of some 14,000 staff. Turner said 1,475 will go through a mix of redundancy, and layoffs. 300 jobs go at CNN, about 8.5 per cent of its staff. Other job losses, as part of the 10 per cent total, will go from TNT, Cartoon […]
Orange France will strengthen its HD+ offering in 2015 by adding 25 new FTA and pay-TV channels to the 12 already carried. The offer specifically targets FTTH where Orange claims 500,000 customers and a leading position overall with three million households passed. The group also plans to launch its own SVoD platform by the end […]
YouTube has seeking a dedicated head of family entertainment and learning to work within its YouTube Originals division. The recruitment ad is seeking someone to “lead YouTube Original’s efforts in supporting the next great storytellers in filmed entertainment, from action to romance to horror, sci-fi and beyond”. “For years we’ve seen a lot of traction […]
Research released by AOL UK claims strong evidence that the rise of programmatic trading will serve to enhance creativity and story-telling across the advertising industry. AOL conducted a comprehensive study
Billionaire Saudi media mogul, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz’s promised new Arabic-language news channel, Alarab, is to launch by the end of the year. Based in Bahrain, the all-news channel will directly compete with Al Jazeera, MBC’s Al Arabiya, Sky News Arabia plus dozens of other news outlets not least Nile News out of […]