Italy’s TIM has signed content deals with NBC Universal and Twentieth Century Fox for its on demand streaming service TIMvision. The multi-year agreement with NBC Universal will enable the telco to offer its subscribers numerous movie titles produced by Hollywood majors, including box office hits such as Fifty Shades of Grey, Fast & Furious, upcoming […]
July 17th was a tough day for Intelsat shareholders, with the satellite operator’s Common share price falling to a 52-week ‘low’ touching just $8.69. It finished the day at $8.71 a share, but this is down dramatically over the past month or so. Back three months and the share price was at $12.59, but confidence […]
Uganda has about 4 million TV households, and less than 1 million of them subscribe to pay TV. On Monday June 15, just over a month ago, the main analogue transmitter in the capital Kampala was switched off. Since then consumers have clearly joined the digital revolution. On July 31st another batch of analogue regional […]
In a further sign of the importance of multi-channel networks to established entertainment groups, MTG has acquired 51 per cent of Zoomin.TV, the online video entertainment network, content production and advertising sales house. This follows MTG’s announced investments in ESL (the world’s largest esports company) and Splay (Scandinavia’s number one MCN and digital content creator) […]
Netflix’s impressive recent quarterly results pointed to continued subscriber growth, driven in particular by further international expansion. In addition, Netflix spoke of its desire to move consumers up to higher pricing tiers. Analysis from Futuresource Consulting points
Motive Television, the technology provider to broadcasters and pay television operators, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with MTN (Maritime Telecommunications Network) Satellite Communications of Miramar, FL. Under the MOU, the Company will provide Motive’s BYOD TV technology and paid engineering support to assist MTN in developing new services to be marketed by MTN to its […]
NetRange, the global leader of white label Smart TV solutions, announced it has finalised a cooperation with Vonetize, a fully managed VoD services company bringing top-tier content to millions of users worldwide. Users of NetRange’s Smart TV Portals all over the world can now choose from a broad range of Vonetize’s high quality content portfolio, […]
Cloud services for video specialist Brightcove has confirmed the general availability of the new Brightcove Video Cloud, the company’s flagship solution re-architected to simplify the complexity of next-generation online video distribution and publishing. The new Video Cloud incorporates a new HTML5 user interface, faster upload and playback, mobile publishing, and new custom analytics to scale […]
The UK government has launched a consultation on plans to increase the maximum sentence for commercial-scale online copyright infringement from two to 10 years imprisonment. Proposals set out in the consultation will bring penalties for online offences into line with equivalent offences relating to the copyright infringement of physical goods. The proposed new measures will […]
The preliminary decision from District Court Judge George Wu issued finding that online video service FilmOn is entitled to a compulsory copyright licence has been applauded by US public interest group Public Knowledge, which has long advocated for regulatory parity for online video services. John Bergmayer, Senior Staff Attorney at Public Knowledge said that if […]