South Africa’s Communications Minister Faith Muthambi says that the country’s TV viewers will not face broadcasting disruption despite the nation not having adopted digital transmission in time for the June 17th digital deadline. “As we have indicated before, our country is not in a position to migrate to the digital platform by this date,” Muthambi […]
Japan broadcaster Fuji Television Network has confirmed it will create original programmes for distribution by Netflix as the streaming streaming service makes its first foray into the Japanese market this autumn. The move will allow the unit of Fuji Media Holdings to distribute its content internationally using the streaming outlet, which boasts some 62 million […]
Small, independent telecommunications providers in the US continue to make significant progress in providing high-speed broadband to rural Americans with advancements being made in fibre deployment and speed offerings, according to a survey by NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association. The NTCA 2014 Broadband/Internet Availability Survey Report found that 45 per cent of survey respondents currently deploying […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has been chosen as the content delivery service provider for Premier Sports HD, the new HD channel from Setanta Sports’ UK operation Premier Sports. The channel will launch on the Sky platform on July 20TH. Globecast has a longstanding relationship with the broadcaster and already provides uplink and […]
NBCUniversal’s Syfy is using Watchwith to extend the reach of their Syfy Sync digital product to the next generation of connected TVs. NBCUniversal has selected LG as their premiere launch partner and Watchwith as their interactive content platform for Advanced TV. As part of the partnership, Syfy Sync is now available on LG Smart TVs […]
Peer5 has launched what it claims is the first WebRTC based Live CDN that enables scalable, cost effective live video streaming for video publishers. Live streaming video is exploding, but the underlying technology has not caught up yet. This situation has created a suboptimal user experience and increased costs for the content providers. The new […]
With the International Yoga Day around the corner, the ZEE Group’s Media & Entertainment Companies are gearing up to actively participate, making it a huge success. The companies which are lending support to this initiative are Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited, Zee Media Corporation Limited, Z Living, Zee Learn Limited and Zee Digital Convergence. Last year, […]
Following reports which emerged on June 11th, the Board of 21st Century Fox has announced a series of senior management changes, which will take effect July 1st. Rupert Murdoch, the Company’s founder and Chairman and CEO, together with Lachlan Murdoch, currently Co-Chairman, will become Executive Co-Chairmen. Chase Carey, the Company’s Deputy Chairman, President and COO […]
Some people think that doing nothing, saying nothing, in the face of hard problems or trenchant criticism isn’t much of a choice. But, of course, it is. Keeping quiet, making no move, is as much a proactive choice as the alternatives. Rupert Murdoch has understood this well. Not an introvert, nor afraid of sharing his […]
Digitalsmiths, a TiVo company, has released its Q1 2015 Video Trends Report covering key topics across pay-TV, VoD, PPV, OTT, TV Everywhere, connected devices, and content discovery. Based on an analysis of survey results from over