Popular Franco-German culture channel Arte is to add English and German language programming thanks to help from the European Commission. The EC is funding the extra costs in order to produce about 12 hours of quad-lingual content per week. High on Arte’s targets are to add these multi-language audio tracks to its high-end ‘Tracks’, ‘Arte […]
Ericsson has announced the launch of its first end-to-end subscription VoD content service, NuVu. The service will be marketed in close collaboration with service providers in Nigeria. With this solution, subscribers will have access to around 3,000 local and international TV programmes and movies for a small monthly fee. They will be able to download […]
Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and VoD server, has announced that Discover Digital, a South African digital entertainment company, has selected Broadpeak’s video delivery solution for powering its complete OTT transactional VoD and SVoD platform for B2C and B2B applications. Utilising a combination of Broadpeak’s CDN manager and streaming […]
Starting this month, owners of LG Smart TVs will be able to access thousands of movies and TV shows through “Google Play Movies & TV” in more than 100 countries. Compatible with LG’s webOS Smart TV platform (as well as its earlier NetCast 4.0 and 4.5), Google Play Movies & TV will offer timeless classics, […]
Satellite operator SES has announced that Canal Holdings, a media production company based in Benin, has signed a multi-year contract to distribute Canal 3 TV channels across West Africa. Under the agreement, SES will be providing broadcast capacity to deliver a Canal 3 pay TV channels bouquet in Hausa, Savanna, Wolof and French languages across […]
SES Techcom Services, a subsidiary of satellite operator SES, will be expanding its Astra Connect broadband service in Africa for the Enterprise and Oil & Gas markets via the Newtec Dialog multiservice platform on SES’s ASTRA 2G satellite. SES is extending its current relationship with long-term partner Newtec – a specialist in designing, developing and […]
John Malone’s Liberty Global is acquiring Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $5.3 billion (€4.9bn). The purchase extends Malone’s cable empire deeper into Latin America, where he created a tracking stock in July called LiLAC for Liberty Global’s assets in Chile and Puerto Rico. Malone, who spent more than $50 billion […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group suggest that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 190,000 net video subscribers in 3Q 2015, compared to a loss of about 155,000 subscribers in 3Q 2014. The top pay-TV providers account for 94.0 million subscribers — […]
blinkx has written down its flagship product by more than $30 million, sending shares down 6 per cent. Earlier this year the company rolled together several of its brands into RhythmOne, which offers advertising targeted both mobile and conected devices in an effort to tap into increased use of tablets and smartphones to consume content. […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM has complained formally to the FCC that T-Mobile’s adoption of new terrestrial frequencies is corrupting SiriusXM’s own radio repeaters. T-Mobile has started using additional frequencies it bought in the FCC-authorised AWS (Additional Wireless Spectrum-3) auctions. SiriusXM claims that the T-Mobile signals, plus its own transmissions, are resulting in a third signal created […]