The National Basketball Association (NBA) has expanded its partnerships with Turner Broadcasting System and The Walt Disney Company through new, nine-year agreements under which ABC, TNT, and ESPN will televise NBA games beginning with the 2016-17 season and running through the 2024-25 season. The new deal is reported to be worth more than $2.5 billion […]
UKTV has announced that CFO, Jan Gooze-Zijl has been awarded an expanded remit which encompasses advertising sales, technology and operations. In his new role of Chief Financial & Operations Officer, Gooze-Zijl will oversee UKTV’s relationships with C4 Sales and Sky Media Ireland, with UKTV now making up slightly over 9 per cent of British commercial […]
Nokia Networks has signed a partnership agreement with Flash Networks to include Flash Networks’ Harmony Gateway as part of its mobile broadband core network offering. The solution enables operators to optimise video and web traffic for an improved user experience, including faster web browsing and downloads, smoother video viewing, and content control services. “Partnering is […]
ARRIS Group is launching a new portfolio of broadband gateways—the NVG340 and NVG370 series—to deliver premium voice, video, and data services. These new NVG series gateways deliver the high-performance broadband and Wi-Fi connectivity to meet the demands of tomorrow’s voice, data and entertainment services. They also feature advanced Quality of Service (QoS), traffic management, and […]
RR Media, a provider of global digital media services to the broadcast industry, has announced the expansion of its European team with the appointment of Andrea Winn as Director of Sales, Gary Finnerty as Technical Director and Darryl Huxley as Chief Engineer. They will be responsible for driving RR Media’s expansion of its media services […]
Faroudja Enterprises has announced that Bill Herz, an industry innovator in the fields of video, multimedia, visual computing and consumer electronics technology, has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer and VP of Business Development. Herz brings more than 25 years of video experience to his new position at Faroudja Enterprises. Faroudja Enterprises develops intellectual […]
Vodafone Netherlands has launched triple-play packages (Internet, telephone and TV services) throughout the country via its DSL network. Packages are available with speeds of 20, 40, and 80 MBs, and, in fibre areas. 50, 100 and 500 MBs. Branded ‘Vodaphone Thuis”, the TV service gives all customers access to a standard 54 digital channels via […]
BSkyB’s shareholders will formally decide today whether to go ahead with the broadcaster’s £5.4 billion (€6.88bn) acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland. There are not likely to be many objectors given that the acquisitions will transform BSkyB into a Europe-wide £22 billion business, and with immense prospects. At the end of the process, BSkyB […]
The latest milestone in the relentless march of high speed Internet access was passed at the end of June this year as the total number of households with a broadband line came to 700.2 million, according to telco data specialist Point Topic. “Consumers love the bits and bytes delivered by the Internet and they are […]
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has launched a public consultation on the digital society designed to shake up a country that he said “undoubtedly had work to do” on the issue. The consultation, which will draw on contributions to an online discussion forum, will continue until the end of January, and feed into digital legislation […]