YouView has launched a new marketing campaign highlighting the breadth and choice of TV programmes and films now available on the service. The ‘Unwrap box sets all year long’ creative demonstrates YouView’s market-leading offering of on demand players, including recent additions Netflix, Quest OD from Discovery and the re-launched UKTV Play. Alongside new BBC iPlayer, […]
Deluxe has announced key capabilities and feature enhancements to its cloud-based content supply and VoD management solution, Deluxe OnDemand. These key features enable service providers to launch 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD) services immediately—and without additional infrastructure investment or workflow costs. Deluxe OnDemand also mitigates the risk of investing in new technologies emerging in the 4K market, […]
Eutelsat Communications and nc+, a driving force in pay-TV services in Poland, have confirmed the signature of a major contract for the renewal of nine transponders at Eutelsat’s Hot Bird video neighbourhood. The agreement equips nc+ to pursue the expansion of its platform of digital services that broadcasts to 2.2 million subscriber homes equipped for […]
Thierry Henry has announced his retirement from football and will join Sky Sports as a football expert and ambassador from the start of 2015. The global sporting icon will work across Sky Sports’ schedule of live international, European and domestic football. Henry said: “After 20 years in the game I have decided to retire from […]
ND SatCom today announced that their flagship technology, the SKYWAN 7000 product family, has received the FIPS certification for the SKYWAN Cryptographic Module. The FIPS certification is awarded by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) in the USA. The awarded FIPS certificate # 2277 documents that the Cryptographic Module SKYWAN-SE (Security Engine) meets […]
Wyplay, creator of software solutions for leading pay-TV operators, and SIGFOX, a pioneer in cost-effective, energy-efficient IoT connectivity, has revealed a joint technology collaboration that yields significant benefits to pay-TV operators and enhanced customer experience. The system, which will be showcased at 2015 International CES in Las Vegas, Nev., integrates SIGFOX’s IoT cellular connectivity solution […]
UK telco BT has announced that, further to its statement on November 24th 2014, it has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Deutsche Telekom and Orange in relation to BT’s possible acquisition of all of their UK mobile business, EE, a move that significantly enhances its ability to provide a quad-play offering. The period of […]
The English Premier League has issued Invitations to Tender (ITT) for its UK audiovisual broadcasting rights for seasons 2016/17 to 2018/19 which include a package that will see live coverage of Friday night football for the first time since the League’s inception in 1992. It has made available to interested parties two separate ITTs inviting […]
The commercial benefits of ITV’s Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) licence significantly outweigh the costs, providing ITV with a net benefit of between £87 million (€110m) and £221 million per year, according to an independent report commissioned by the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) – the trade body for digital, cable and satellite services in the UK’s […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has published a consultation on its third review of public service broadcasting against a backdrop of what it suggests is reduced viewing of and investment in such services. The latest review examines how the BBC, ITV, STV, UTV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C have fulfilled the purposes of public service […]