According to reports from BBC Monitoring, some of Nilesat’s channels are being deliberately jammed. Syria’s General Authority for Radio & Television, Bashar Sabsub, is quoted as saying that Syria’s state-backed satellite channel Syria TV is being jammed. He said that viewers could switch to Syria Drama which would carry the main channel’s output. Sabsub told […]
French telco Orange has announced that the Spanish Securities Commission (the “CNMV”) has authorised the voluntary cash tender offer for the acquisition of Jazztel, listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange. The offer, which will be open from May 28th 2015 to June 24th 2015, covers 100 per cent of Jazztel’s shares. This offer will enable […]
Russian DTH broadcaster Tricolor TV says it now has more than 5 million of its subscribers viewing in HD. Moreover, Tricolor says that it expects the HD-enabled subscriber count to reach 50 per cent of the overall total during this year. Analysts at J’son & Partners say that Tricolor’s HDTV subs now account for 39.6 […]
Fast solutions to network faults are urgently required due to the rising number of Fibre to the Home subscribers across the APAC region, Frank Kaufhold, Managing Director of leading research and development company UTEL has warned ahead of CommunicAsia. “Today, there are over 100 million FTTH subscribers across Asia and that number is continuing to […]
This summer, Sky will launch a major initiative to bring the best of the arts to its 21 million customers across Italy, Germany, Austria, Ireland and the UK. The broad commitment by the company is one of the first major international content initiatives since the creation of the new Sky in November 2014. It signals […]
Beamly, the social discovery network for TV, has announced the results of the live ‘Votelys’ (polls) it ran during this year’s Eurovision competition. By the end of the Grand Final, the viewing public from across Europe had used Beamly’s social network to cast 9,077,194 votes in total, significantly beating Twitter’s engagement figure around the show […]
Ooyala, an expert in video publishing, analytics and monetisation, has introduced a new feature in its video ad campaign management workflow that enables clients to book campaigns based on ad completion, in addition to traditional CPMs. In a move to better align the interests of video publishers with video advertisers, customers of Ooyala’s Videoplaza ad […]
Akamai Technologies, a global player in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, has formed a strategic partnership agreement with China Unicom’s cloud division – CU Cloud. CU Cloud is one of the largest cloud computing service providers in China. As part of the strategic partnership, CU Cloud has agreed to complement its own Cloud services for […]
TVbeat, the next generation TV analytics SaaS company, has announced a strategic partnership with Metrological, a TV application solution company. The agreement means that both companies can identify avenues of mutual benefit and complement each other’s proposition to support TV platforms around the world in accelerating their path to monetising data by better understanding cross […]
TV Connect, the connected entertainment event, has revealed that the eleventh edition of the show (that ran April 28th – 300th)has seen a 4 per cent attendee increase from 83 countries, transforming it into a centralised platform for discussion and innovation in the digital TV and connected entertainment market. Joanna Jones, Events Director at Informa […]