ATEME has announced that Aldea Solutions, provider of high-quality video networking services has chosen the Kyrion CM5000 encoders to stream the Pan American Games to their customers throughout the Americas. The Kyrion encoder has been designed for low latency streaming over fiber, OTT and satellite networks, with ultra-fast-boot, main screen and ABR outputs, and integrated […]
Mediaset Premium S.p.A. and SmarDTV, a Kudelski Group company (SIX:KUD.S), today announced the successful commercial launch of the first CI Plus Wi-Fi CAM offering both Mediaset Premium broadcast services and Mediaset Premium Play broadband services in one single module. The innovative Wi-Fi enabled Premium SMART CAM enables CI Plus and certified DVB-CI TVs to become […]
New Entertainment channel &TV is now available for all to enjoy. The channel will be the first South Asian channel to delight viewers with HD entertainment for free on Sky. &TV HD is now the first and only South Asian entertainment channel to offer its full range of shows in full HD at no […]
German media group ProSiebenSat.1 and publisher Axel Springer are reportedly in merger discussions. If the talks continue, it could lead to a united operation worth around €14.5 billion. The Wall Street Journal broke the news late on Monday, saying that any final conclusion would need regulatory and anti-trust approvals, and which might be tough to […]
Spain’s Supreme Court has closed the file on the possible shutdown of eight DTT channels, a few weeks after broadcasters reached a deal with broadcast services company Infraestructuras y Gestión 2002 to withdraw the case. The private TV stations agreed to pay around €20 million to the company to prevent the closures. Now with the […]
A survey exploring the shift in behaviours towards sustained viewing of content over a short time has found that unavailable episodes – defined as either impossible to find, or delivered within a sub-par playback experience – prompt nearly half of all OTT binge-watchers to give up on a series, with half of them neutral-to-unlikely ever […]
Vivendi has decided to raise the price of its public tender offer from €7.60 to €8 to reinforce the attractiveness of its proposed public tender offer to the shareholders of the Société d’Édition de Canal Plus (SECP). The French media group announced in mid-May an offer of €495 million for a controlling stake in pay-TV […]
In a majority of US family households with tablets and smartphones, TV is no longer the kids’ first choice for entertainment, according to a study by strategic research, marketing brand consultants Miner & Co Studio. The firm found 57 per cent of kids prefer watching video on portable devices like smartphones and tablets as opposed […]
Research by Ampere Analysis into Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) has found that the business model of MCNs is a good fit for many traditional media companies, which understand advertising business models. The firm notes that Zoella, Minecraft, Ed Sheeran and political documentaries all have their own YouTube channels that are part of the Multi-Channel Networks owned […]
The European Commission is seeking the views of all interested parties on how to make Europe’s audiovisual media landscape fit for purpose in the digital age. In a public consultation, the Commission will get feedback on the current framework regulating Europe’s audiovisual media landscape (the so-called Audiovisual Media Services Directive – AVMSD), on issues such […]