José Manuel Penalosa, a board member at RTVE and very close to the government, has become an acting president of the public TV group following Leopoldo González-Echenique’s exit, taking effect immediately. His mandate at RTVE may be temporary, though, as the government plans to appoint a new president after the local and regional elections in […]
Modern Times Group issued a formal notice that its subsidiary business in Russia, CTC Media, could fall foul of Russia’s proposed new media law which passed its first reading in Russia’s parliament on September 23rd. The new rules propose limited foreign ownership of media within Russia to 20 per cent. MTG owns 38 per cent […]
3net, the all-3D channel backed by Discovery, Sony and IMAX, has closed. Highly-regarded CEO Tom Cosgrove has already switched responsibilities within the Discovery family and is now GM at Discovery Family Channel (DFC), a rebranded channel formed out of Hub Network, and which will concentrate on family-skewing material from Discovery’s output plus content from 40 […]
Digital radio sales have hit a six-year low according to Ofcom, with a period of consecutive growth in digital’s share of listening coming to a halt. Despite a cross-industry marketing campaign,1.7 million digital audio broadcasting (DAB) sets were sold in the year to the end of June this year, down 9.1 per cent on the […]
Dailymotion Advertising has confirmed the launch of Dailymotion Exchange (DMX), a new private video marketplace dedicated to the automated purchasing of advertising space on Dailymotion, in all territories. Based on real-time bidding (RTB), DMX allows buyers to bid on Dailymotion’s video advertising inventory as well as the ability to purchase guaranteed volumes. “With four years […]
Ruth Vitale, Executive Director of Creative Future, the grass-roots coalition which unites those who value American creativity and innovation in the fight against content theft, has welcomed publication of a study from KPMG – Film and TV Title Availability in the Digital Age – which reveals that the vast majority of the most popular films […]
Amazon has confirmed that all 10 episodes of the critically-acclaimed dark comedy series Transparent are now available for Prime Instant Video customers in the UK, US and Germany. From creator Jill Soloway (Afternoon Delight, Six Feet Under) and starring Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), Judith Light (Dallas), Gaby Hoffmann (Girls), Amy Landecker (Louie) and Jay Duplass […]
Trace has announced that its flagship entertainment channel for sport and celebrity fans, Trace Sport Stars, will be made available Africa when it moves to the DStv Extra, Compact and Family packages. With this new deal, Trace Sport Stars will significantly increase its reach in the African market, while broadening its appeal to advertisers and […]
Getting a licence to fly an unmanned aerial ‘drone’ during a TV or film production has been a real challenge for US production houses, and those in Europe. On September 25th the USA’s Federal Aviation Administration ruled that they do not need certificates of airworthiness, and announced that six well-known specialists would be granted a […]
Easel TV, the multi-screen video software company, is launching an Ad Engagement Platform tool that enables brands to create micro-channels for their ad campaigns in three weeks. The Ad Engagement Tool is built using Easel TV’s Suggested TV platform- a cloud-based software-as-a-service solution for multi-screen content delivery with a televisual user experience. The product is […]