Mexican broadcaster and media giant Grupo Televisa has lost its 18-point series of appeals against an earlier decision that it held a dominant position in Mexican media. Back in March the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) ruled that Televisa was in breach of the 50 per cent market share threshold, and needed to curb its […]
Former Sony executive Ziad Kebbi has launched a Middle East-focused production company branded ‘Maximum Media’. Kebbi will be CEO of the new Dubai-based company, which will bring international formats to the Middle East as well as develop ideas originating in the region. “Non-scripted will be the focus at the beginning, scripted is a longer-term process […]
Sky Sports will this year offer more Ryder Cup coverage than ever before, including a dedicated channel broadcasting over 300 hours of programming. Sky Sports 4 has become ‘Sky Sports Ryder Cup’ for two weeks during The Ryder Cup. In addition to exclusively live coverage, the Sky Sports Ryder Cup channel will offer round-the-clock golf […]
PeerTV, the TV over the OTT technology solutions provider, has received the first order for its latest quad core High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard set top boxes from Russian specialist pay per view TV operator Kartina in a deal expected to be worth approximately $1.2 million. The new technology will mean content can be […]
Fox International Channels (FIC) has closed a deal with Malaysian IPTV service HyppTV for carriage of SCM, FIC’s flagship Chinese movies channel. This marks the channel’s entry into Malaysia and joins a portfolio of FIC channels already carried on HyppTV. SCM will available as part of HyppTV’s Mega Pack, Ruby Pack and also on a […]
SyQic, an OTT provider of live TV and on-demand paid video content across mobile and Internet enabled consumer devices, has confirmed the receipt of the February 2014 payment (approx £280,000) from PT Nextnation Prisma (PTNP), the completion of its acquisition of Maaduu and the activation of a mobile phone payment service for its Yoonic OTT […]
Horse & Country TV will broadcast live coverage of The Arena UK Ultimate Showjumping Championship Grand Prix at this year’s Arena UK Festival of Showjumping. Horse & Country TV will broadcast the event on September 27th from the Lincolnshire showground. It will be the channel’s first live broadcast from the UK and will be presented […]
QuickPlay Media, a provider of cloud-based managed service solutions for the distribution of premium media to IP-connected devices, has opened its delivery centre in Chennai, India. The launch is part of QuickPlay’s effort to support new devices, networks and features with its end-to-end managed service solution by bolstering its service delivery capabilities for customers globally […]
Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, told the CTAM cable marketing summit it will decide in 2015 which European territories will be next in its five year plan to expand globally. Hastings, in Europe to promote Netflix’s latest six European launches, said moving to more territories will help it to monetise and do “more original content.” “Our […]
The Spanish Government will pay the bill for readjusting DTT aerials on around one million buildings. The retuning must take place before the end of the year as a result of the allocation of the digital dividend to 4G operators. The Government estimates that the total cost to readjust the aerials will be €286 million […]