Spanish private TV stations will pay around €20 million to the company Infraestructuras y Gestión 2002 to prevent the closure of 8 DTT channels which the Supreme Court was going to rule on next week. In exchange for the money, the company has decided to withdraw the case just a few days before the Court […]
The French Conseil d’Etat has cancelled TV regulatory body CSA’s decision which outlawing the transfer of news and entertainment pay TV channels LCI (TF1) and Paris Première (M6) to free DTT. The CSA argued the arrival of both channels could weaken the free DTT advertising ecosystem and lead to the closure of other channels. The […]
Samsung Electronics America has agreed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Pearl TV, a partnership of nine leading TV broadcast companies, and Sinclair Broadcast Group with combined reach over 88 million TV households throughout the US. The companies will work collaboratively to support the development and the implementation of the new Advanced Television Systems […]
Al Jazeera’s beIN Sports is bidding up to €250 million to broadcast football matches in Spain every week featuring either Real Madrid or Barcelona. The figure has emerged in the run-up to the bidding war for the new TV rights packages. beIN Sports, owned by Qatari news network Al Jazeera, are set to make a […]
Building on a technology partnership that has existed since 1990, IT consultancy and technology expert IBM and the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) have revealed a number of innovations for the Championships to mark the next step in the Club’s digital strategy for the Wimbledon tournament. Making use of its latest technology advancements in […]
According to research from TDG, Latin America is poised to become a significant market for OTT video, with use especially prominent among younger adults. By 2025, TDG forecasts that consumers between the ages of 18 and 34 will account for 65 per cent of all OTT viewing. “Much is said about the rise of US […]
Entertainment company IM Global’s founder and CEO Stuart Ford told a conference in Shanghai, China that the country’s digital and pay-TV revenues, already significant, could become the biggest driver of the global movie market within 5 years. IM global is active in the Chinese market, buying and selling content from and to China. Ford was […]
Jesse Norman, Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, has been elected by fellow MPs to chair the UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. He takes over from John Whittingdale, who held the role in the last parliament, and was appointed Secretary of State Culture, Media and Sport in May 2015 under […]
According to Parks Associates research, there were 721 million broadband households worldwide in 2014, and that number will reach 972 million by 2019. The prevalence of high-speed connections will drive the expansion of the Internet of Things in the European connected home. Among European broadband households,
JeanDavid Blanc, founder of AlloCiné, France’s first online cinema and entertainment information service, and Pierre Lescure, founder of Canal+ the French premium television channel, have teamed up to create an innovative service for the distribution programmes and channels : Molotov. Announced with few details following the application with the French broadcasting regulatory authority (CSA), Molotov […]