A Cairo-based satellite TV channel says it will file a lawsuit against Qatar-based Al Jazeera and accuse the news channel of “violating its broadcast rights as the exclusive holder,” according to BBC Monitoring. The allegation is that the Sada al-Balad channel held the exclusive rights to cover and transmit the retrial hearing of former president […]
South Africa’s broadcasting regulator ICASA defended its decision to grant licenses for three adult TV channels to TopTV (now being taken over by Star Times). Speaking at a Western Cape High Court hearing in Cape Town, an ICASA lawyer, Paul Kennedy said the licensed channels were in accordance with the X18 rating of the Films […]
BoxNation and Premier Sports are joining the TalkTalk TV platform on August 22nd. The move means TalkTalk TV viewers can choose from all six Sky Sports channels, as well as add boxing channel, BoxNation, and international sports channel, Premier Sports, to their TV package. BoxNation is Britain’s only 24 hour boxing channel, and will be […]
The new chairman and CEO at Cairo-based Nilesat is Ahmed Anis. Anis was a former chairman of Nilesat from 2009-2011 following which he was the nation’s Minister of Information (until mid-2012). He returns to Nilesat with a new CTO in the form of Hamdy Mounir, who replaces the retiring Salah Hamza.
BT Sport will show exclusive live matches from the new European Rugby Champions Cup, the successor to the Heineken Cup, as well as the new European Rugby Challenge Cup. In the European Rugby Champions Cup, BT Sport will show at least five matches exclusively live from each of the opening rounds of the tournament, plus […]
French pay-TV operator Canal+ is to televise live coverage of all races in the new all-electric FIA Formula E Championship for the next three seasons. In a deal brokered by international media company MP & Silva, Canal+ will have exclusive broadcasting rights for live races covering the entire French region, along with Andorra and Monaco. […]
Vadio, the full-scale distribution platform for music video content and ads online, has closed a $2 million seed funding round with backing from music, entertainment and technology investors including Ed Wilson, former President of NBC Enterprises; Robin Richards, former CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA; Marc Geiger, Co-Founder of Lollapalooza and Partner at William Morris […]
Leichtman Research Group has found that the seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the US — representing about 93 per cent of the market — acquired nearly 385,000 net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the second quarter of 2014. These top broadband providers now account for over 85.9 million subscribers — with top cable […]
LatAm Market Briefing 2014 Advanced-Television’s Latin America market briefing special, featuring an overview of ABTA 2014, an interview with Hispasat CEO Carlos Espinós and more.
TiVo has announced that the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has awarded both TiVo and subsidiary Digitalsmiths an Emmy Award for their role in shaping the next generation of home entertainment. TiVo was recognised for Television Enhancement Devices and Digitalsmiths for Personalised Recommendation Engines for Video Discovery for Multichannel Video Programming Distributors […]