World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has launched its OTT service, WWE Network, in the UK and Ireland, with the channel now also available through Roku devices. The WWE Network allows fans to sign up for the first-ever 24/7 streaming network featuring all 12 WWE Network live pay-per-view events – including WrestleMania – as well as original […]
Goldman Sachs is busy buying up stakes in India’s cable industry. It has already bought into DEN Networks having paid $110 million. Now it has acquired 4.8 per cent of Hathway Cable & Datacom, paying $8.5 million (Rupees 526 million) for the holding, which represents 8.1 million shares. Goldman Sachs already holds a 17.8 stake […]
Sky Sports will provide unprecedented coverage of Super Bowl XLIX next week, including for the first time, broadcasting seven days of non-stop NFL programming on a single channel. Super Bowl week on Sky Sports 3 kicks off on January 26th and will offer viewers over 160 hours of build-up to the climax of the NFL […]
January 28th will see 633,825 digital ‘vouchers’ issued to Thailand’s population. Each voucher permits the holder a discount on a digital set-top box or new digital-ready TV set. The issue represents some 63,000 households in five of Thailand’s rural provinces. Thailand’s National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has also reported that some 821,000 previously issued […]
Australia’s Seven Network has launched its coverage of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne with the choice of live coverage of the tournament across two channels – Channel 7 and 7TWO – with the Channel 7 coverage switching to 7mate at 6pm for the hour of news and public affairs. The launch of the […]
Spacecom, the operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has been selected for the third consecutive time to provide broadcast services on AMOS-5 at 17°E for the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) Orange Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Africa’s bi-annual football championship competition. The competition is being hosted by Equatorial Guinea and is taking place from […]
Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) has signed a deal with Arkena France to acquire a digital delivery solution. The deal is part of DMI’s drive towards a fully automated tapeless content acquisition workflow. The contract will allow DMI to rapidly send and receive digital content on a highly secure professional platform. The Cloud4Media solution will be […]
Cires21, a Spanish leading Live Streaming technology solutions company, has partnered with Olympusat Telecom, one of the key leading players in the broadcasting industry, to launch together new products in both North and Latin American markets, an strategic collaboration for the Spanish Company international expansion.
Vodafone-Ono is putting pressure on the Spanish competition watchdog CNMC to stop Telefonica’s acquisition of the pay-TV operator Canal Plus from becoming a reality. Vodafone Spain’s director of legal and regulatory affairs, Pedro Peña, has said that CNMC should prohibit or at least subject the operation to stricter conditions to guarantee free competition in the […]
Telecom Italia Media (TIMedia) has judged the bids for its 70 per cent stake in DTT network operator Persidera ((formerly Telecom Italia Media Broadcasting) as “unsatisfactory”, adding that the sale of assets is not feasible at this stage. The Board of TIMedia also said that developments at Persidera are “not in line with expectations” and, […]