Vodafone has filed a lawsuit against KPN for alleged anticompetitive behaviour, declaring it is seeking €115 million in damages from the Dutch company. Vodafone said in a statement that its roll-out of a combined package including television services in the Netherlands had been delayed by three years as KPN, the former Dutch telecoms monopoly, failed […]
Data from Kantar Media reveal sthat music awards shows and reality TV competitions have driven some of the biggest moments of Twitter engagement by television viewers since the Kantar Twitter TV Ratings launched in October 2014. The results, taken from the first 12 months of the Kantar Twitter TV Ratings, show that a combination of […]
Global satellite operator Intelsat’s share price slide continued December 8th, falling a further 5.67 per cent to finish the day at just $3.83. December 9th saw it recover by almost the same amount, but the past 5 days have seen trading in Intelsat stock fluctuate between $4.48 and down to the current $4.05, and pushing […]
US President Barack Obama last week signed a bill to revive the country’s Export-Import Bank after being overwhelmingly approved by the Senate. The move comes more than five months after the bank was forced to shut its doors amid political pressure over its support for major US businesses such as Boeing. The bank underwrites and […]
Online TV provider Zattoo has launched a free VoD service in Germany. At launch the service offers content from Spiegel TV, Studio Hamburg and Fashion TV with additional partners, including ProSiebenSat.1, to be added in the coming weeks. The ad-supported service is available through the Zattoo website and within the Windows 10 app. Zattoo intends […]
Last weekend on December 5th a Russian Soyuz rocket failed correctly to deploy a military satellite. Russia’s TASS news agency said December 9th that a planned Proton-M launch of a military satellite, scheduled for December 10th, has now been postponed. The pause will permit the Proton team to carry out extra checks on the system […]
Vibrant TV Network has launched on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, bringing the channel’s 24/7 schedule of programming as well as VoD episodes to Amazon’s digital media players. “We are delighted to have Vibrant TV’s unique all-English international programming line-up accessible via Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, which has set a […]
Channel 5 has won the UK rights for the new six-part series of The X-Files which it will broadcast early in 2016. The resurrected TV series will see most of the original cast, including Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, return some 14 years after Season Nine aired. “Securing the UK premiere of the hugely anticipated […]
Ericsson’s and Vodafone Portugal have announced the selection and integration of Ericsson’s Media Delivery Network solution to create media-centric added value services that will enable an improved consumer video experience while reducing operational expenditure. This latest solution deployment in Portugal complements the Ericsson Media portfolio deployed in Portugal and other countries, enabling tighter integration of […]
Motors TV, the motorsport television channel, has signed a new partnership with DISH Network’s OTT service Sling International, which will host the channel in the US effective immediately. Sling, Motors TV’s second broadcast carrier in the US, shows the channel as part of its existing World Sports Package, which includes five other channels and costs […]