SES has launched an Ebola-focused education channel to be broadcast via satellite in West Africa. The channel, called “Fight Ebola”, will be available to both free-to-air TV viewers and pay-TV subscribers and transmitted from the Astra 2F satellite at 28.2 degrees East and from SES-5 at 5 degrees East. It aims at informing populations in […]
Egypt’s government has stated that it will ban foreign private channels which ham Egypt “economically, religiously, socially and politically”. Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb met with the ministers of communications, justice and foreign affairs, as well as the heads of the Media Production City, the Egyptian Radio and Televison Union and NileSat, and representatives from […]
John Lewis is widely regarded as the ‘King of the Christmas ad’, known for using tracks (generally covers) from young singers. This year is no different, with the track of choice being Tom Odell’s cover of John Lennon original, ‘Real Love’. Data from Shazam shows
More than ten years after its launch into space – on a mission to chase down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – the Rosetta spacecraft is nearing the next phase of its journey: plant a lander called Philae on the speeding comet. On November 12th, National Geographic Channel will broadcast online a live stream of the European Space […]
Scripps Networks UK & EMEA has confirmed the launch of Travel Channel on the Telekom TV service, provided by Magyar Telekom, Hungary’s principal provider of telecom services and a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. The channel is available to all Telekom digital TV subscribers and will be available in the new Minipay package from January 2015. […]
BroadcastAsia2015, slated for 2 – 5 June 2015 will unveil its new TV Everywhere Zone as increasing consumer expectations place new challenges on the industry to provide more convenient and reliable access to content. With the proliferation of digital devices and today’s ever-changing market of always-on connectivity, content broadcasters are starting to look beyond TV […]
DTVKit has announced the availability of a new Membership level, ‘Product Plus,’ designed to meet the requirements of members wanting to use more than one silicon vendor. Product Plus membership provides the opportunity for members to work with whichever silicon platform they choose, even if the vendor is not a DTVKit delivery member. It grants […]
Onlime has signed a new contract with Romantis to purchase the latest generation satellite services hub to be installed at the Onlime teleport near Hameln in Germany. The Romantis UHP platform will be the core to expand our service portfolio and address the networking requirements of our enterprise customers that include integration of various topologies. […]
Africa Market Briefing 2014 Many industry observers expect the pay-TV sector in Sub-Saharan Africa to experience significant growth in the years to come. Read Advanced-Television’s overview of the sector and its prospects, plus the rest of the issue
New figures from Mediabug – Decipher’s bi-annual UK media consumption tracker – have shown how the increasing popularity of TV connected services such as Now TV is leading to more viewers choosing their TV over laptops and devices for accessing video on demand content. The firm’s Mediabug Wave 5 reports that both PCs and tablets […]