Closing down a highly controversial Arabic TV channel has seemingly cost Saudi Arabia’s Culture & Information Minister his job. Abdul Aziz Khoja was removed from his post earlier this week. “I have ordered the offices of Wesal channel in Riyadh closed and to ban any broadcast by it in the kingdom,” Khoja said on his […]
BT’s Media & Broadcast unit has agreed a new multi-year contract with news and multimedia content specialist ITN to provide its location news teams with wireless transmission technology across London. The new camera-mounted system, called BT Media Live, will allow ITN camera crews to broadcast live or transfer footage wirelessly to its studios from locations […]
Vualto, specialists in video content delivery, is now a Certified Widevine Implementation Partner (CWIP) for the Modular DRM product. Widevine Modular DRM provides support for the latest industry standards for multi-platform content protection including MPEG-DASH, CENC and EMEs. Vualto already provides support for PlayReady and Primetime DRM and has now added Google Widevine to the […]
PerceptionTV has confirmed its launch following a demerger from Vision 247 Ltd to market and sell its successful IPTV/OTT cloud-based multiscreen platform Perception. After extensive development, Perception has now come of age as a white label IPTV service and PerceptionTV Ltd has been created to drive its full commercial rollout worldwide. The Perception IPTV multiscreen […]
BBC Worldwide has appointed Jonathan Green as the new Director of BBC Store, the new digital service to be launched by the BBC next year which will allow people to buy and keep digital copies of the BBC programmes they love. Jonathan will join BBC Worldwide in his new role in December having previously held […]
Telewizja Puls has signed an extensive Free TV content deal with NBCUniversal International TV Distribution. This is a significant deal for Telewizja Puls as it’s the largest partnership of this type that the broadcaster has with a world-renowned studio. As part of the agreement between Telewizja Puls and NBCUniversal, the Polish broadcaster will air some […]
Muvi TV, the Zambian commercial broadcaster and one of Africa’s fastest-growing satellite TV platforms, is poised for a new phase of expansion. The company has renewed and expanded its satellite capacity requirements from Stellar, a German play-out centre and satellite uplink facility, that leases high-power capacity on the Eutelsat 7B satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has welcomed a court ruling that paves the way for more top sports events to be made available for the first time to viewers of BT’s YouView TV service. The Competition Appeal Tribunal has published an interim ruling that Sky Sports 1 and 2 should be made available on BT’s YouView […]
Research from Nielsen has found that social media ‘reminds’ people to watch an episode after the live airing. It’s no secret that audiences today are using more than one screen while watching TV, and recent research from the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) and FOX, Viacom and other industry sources has explored the benefits of this […]
21st Century Fox is considering an array online initiatives to attract younger viewers and consumers who don’t subscribe to traditional pay TV services. New digital platforms are “the most exciting and important opportunity for future growth,” Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey told an earnings conference. The traditional cable TV bundle “is fraying at the edge” […]