Amazon has confirmed that two more original pilots will return exclusively to Prime Instant Video next year as full series. Dramatic thriller Hand of God, written by Ben Watkins (Burn Notice), along with Steven Soderbergh’s coming-of-age comedy, Red Oaks, will become the next Amazon Original Series following positive customer reviews of the pilot episodes. As […]
Nickelodeon Viacom Consumer Products has announced a partnership with Entertainment Retail Enterprises to create Nickelodeon stores in a variety of international destinations beginning with a flagship specialty retail store in London. Opening to the public in the second quarter of 2015, the UK’s first flagship Nickelodeon store will be located in Leicester Square. The new […]
Compact Media Group, a full-service intellectual property rights management company, has partnered with Octopus TV an end-to-end cloud based video content management and digital delivery platform. Compact’s clients will benefit from a commitment free trial of the full Octopus system with some exclusive service enhancements. The two companies will continue to work with their respective […]
On August 29th 2014, the GS Group international holding company unveiled its plans for the implementation of the satellite-broadcasting project in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The holding company representatives made a declaration at the first session of the Inter-governmental Russian-Myanmar Commission for trade and economic cooperation. GS Group representatives took part in […]
Worldwide ownership of Connected TV Devices (including smart TVs, smart Blu-ray players, IP-enabled game consoles and digital media streamers) grew 7 per cent quarter-on-quarter in Q2 2014 and 34 per cent versus the same period in 2013 to reach 500 million units. The growing demand for devices that facilitate the streaming of online video to […]
French President François Hollande has announced that the process of auctioning frequencies in the 700 MHz band for use by telcos will get under way in 2015. Any resultant frequency auction could help rebalance the public accounts. An auction of frequencies in the 800 MHz band in 2011 saw the Government earn €2.6 billion. He […]
Spain has suffered a new setback over subsidies to extend DTT throughout the country. The European Commission has ruled that the €46 million subsidies given in the Spanish Region of Castilla-La Mancha to finance the DTT deployment in isolated areas are illegal on the grounds that they break European legislation. Brussels has concluded that the […]
Vodafone Italia will bring optical fibre to 25-30 Italian cities by the end of March 2015. Speaking at an event in Capri, CEO Aldo Bisio said Vodafone started in eight cities (Treviso, Vicenza, Novara, Imola, Sassuolo, Settimo Torinese, Cinisello Balsamo, Sesto San Giovanni) with a few hundred cabinets, but by the end of March 2015 […]
The average broadband speed delivered by cable services is now faster than that of fibre, according to Ofcom research. In the six months to May 2014, the average speed delivered by cable broadband reached 43.3Mbit/s, overtaking the average speed for fibre connections for the first time (42.0Mbit/s). Ofcom’s eleventh report measures
In a further initiative designed to make it easy for Roku customers to connect their mobile devices with their TVs in fun and exciting ways, the connected streaming platform is rolling out a beta release of a new screen mirroring feature for a select number of Windows 8.1 and Android devices. Available to customers around […]