Following last weekend’s British GP at Silverstone, Yorkshire-based broadband and telephone provider Plusnet has announced a multi-year sponsorship deal with GP2 and Manor F1 Development Driver Jordan King. King, who served his apprenticeship in national, European and World Championship karting, won the prestigious British Formula 3 Championship in 2013 before making his GP2 debut this […]
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer Division has called on UK comms regulator Ofcom to broaden the scope of its Digital Communications Review (DCR) to include pay-TV, citing high prices and poor outcomes for consumers arising from a lack of competition in pay-TV. Speaking to the Broadcasting Press Guild, Petter compared the falling prices, rising […]
According to research from TDG, the use of legacy pay-TV services among Netflix Streamers has declined only three points in the last three years, from 87 per cent to 84 per cent, within the margin of error. At the same time, the use of Netflix streaming among pay-TV users has increased 33 per cent, up […]
In a deal that will see the tournament remain on terrestrial free-to-air channels, the BBC and ITV are to share the rights to broadcast rugby union’s Six Nations Championship for the next six years. Sky – which briefly held certain rights in the 1990s – was reported to be a favoured bidder. Wales, Scotland and […]
Paramount Pictures is altering the normal TV release windows for – at least – some of its movies. The core deal covers two major US cinema chains, AMC Entertainment and Cineplex. The scheme says that just two Paramount films will be available for online purchase just 17 days after the US distribution of those movies […]
Digital TV Research forecasts 68.83 million SVoD [subscription video on demand] homes by 2020, quadruple the 2014 total and up from only 1.47 million in 2010. The Asia Pacific OTT TV & Video Forecasts report maintains that Japan will remain the largest SVoD country. China will overtake South Korea to become the second largest country […]
Samsung Electronics has been awarded a patent for a flexible display for foldable TVs or computer tablets. The patent was published by the US Patent & Trademark Office on July 8th. Reportedly the patent also applies to LCD as well as OLED panels. Speciality publication Patently Apple, which normally praises Apple’s ‘spirit of invention’, stated: […]
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in IMS Internet Media Services (IMS), one of Latin America’s largest ad sales and media buying firms in the digital space. “Gaston and his team are experts in the digital space and they have created a fantastic business across Latin America,” said Andy Kaplan, president of worldwide networks for SPT. “With the sector growing exponentially and evolving […]
Mediaset Premium and Vodafone Italia have launched a joint offer of pay-TV and mobile telephony services.Subscribers to the joint offer will receive a package of mobile (400 minutes, 100 SMS and 1 GB) and pay-TV services (including live Italian and European football, sports coverage on Eurosport, over 1,000 episodes of TV series per week, documentaries, […]
Vodafone has revamped its convergent package Vodafone Ono with higher speeds, more mobile data volume and pay-TV channels free Of charge to subscribers Of Vodafone’s One L service. Vodafone One will include four fixed broadband speed options – 300Mbps, 120Mbps, 50Mbps and up to 30Mbps, with the lower-speed option available only to VDSL customers rather […]