Global Broadcast News (via its TV18 operation) and CNN-Turner Broadcasting have been partners in supplying India with local and international news, as CNN-IBN, for ten years since 2005. But from January 2016 they will operate independently – and will likely be rivals. “Network18 has grown from 2 news channels in 2005 to 17 news channels […]
Motive Television, the digital television technology group, has reported an increase in losses for 2014. Full-year revenues declined 2.4 per cent to £1.14 million (€1.6m) and losses before tax jumped to £12.5 million from £3 million the year before. The company said sales levels were flat as it focused on development activity, while costs increased […]
Virgin Media has confirmed the appointment of David Bouchier as its first Chief Digital Entertainment Officer. In this newly created role, Bouchier will bring together and lead the Content, Programming and Digital Entertainment teams at Virgin Media as the cable operator seeks to further develop its entertainment proposition. Bouchier spent six years helping to develop […]
BBC Monitoring is reporting that the broadcasting of all Iranian satellite TV channels over Africa has been suspended. Iran blamed satellite operator Arabsat, and used the main evening’s nightly news bulletin to say that Arabsat was behind the move. However, Iran’s own Ambassador to Tunisia said the real reason was that “the cost of renting […]
The golden halo surrounding SpaceX is a little tarnished this week. It isn’t that the launch company has been without problems but somehow or other the passion – and transparency – of founder Elon Musk and his wish to ‘get things right’ have smoothed over any rough edges SpaceX might have had. But inevitably the […]
Sunday’s SpaceX launch explosion last weekend caused significant falls in the share prices of European and US satellite operators as the market reacted to lower revenue forecasts for the operators. Paris-based Eutelsat fell back 2.82 per cent to €29.97 but at one stage was down at €29.75, while Luxembourg-based SES finished the day at €31.12, […]
Uganda’s digital switch-over is underway. Kampala city is already all-digital and its suburbs will go dark as far as analogue TV is concerned on July 31st. A final and absolute switch-off of analogue transmissions would take place on August 31st. Uganda’s Communications Commission and its Director for Broadcasting Fred Otunnu said the July 31st switch-over […]
Scandinavian Cloudncoder.com has announced a partnership with Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, to secure linear TV content that is transcoded in the cloud before delivery to a CDN of choice. As a result of the collaboration, joint customers will now be able to […]
British Muslim TV has partnered with Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, to launch a new VoD service as part of its TV Everywhere offering. This extends the existing relationship with the broadcaster to now deliver a service covering satellite capacity, VoD and content monetisation. This includes live and on-demand content streaming, content and […]
FreeWheel, a provider of video ad management and monetisation solutions for the television industry, continues its European expansion having relocated to a larger office in Soho to accommodate the company’s growing commercial, marketing and support teams. This includes the appointments of ad and media industry veterans Jamie Caras, as Commercial Director for the UK and […]