The offices of Mediaset and Sky Italia have been raided by police probing last year’s €1 billion sale of Serie A football rights. The investigation was launched in parallel with the arrest of 50 people, including footballers and club presidents, on charges of rigging 28 matches. Italy’s antitrust authority said it had opened an investigation […]
Liberty Global’s chairman John Malone has boosted the chances of a tie-up with Vodafone in Western Europe, saying it would be a “great fit”. “We’ve looked at that from our side and there would be very substantial synergies if we could find a way to work together or combine the companies,” he told Bloomberg. Malone […]
BT says it will take Ofcom to a court over the watchdog’s decision to introduce restrictions on the wholesale price of superfast broadband. The telco has lodged an appeal with the Competition Appeals Tribunal against Ofcom’s new ‘margin squeeze’ test, which is designed to ensure that rivals Sky and TalkTalk, who rely on the BT […]
Figures from Decipher’s bi-annual media consumption report Mediabug have shown how growth in usage of subscription VoD services like Netflix and Amazon Prime has been solely due to those over the age of 35. Mediabug Wave 6 reports that
TF1 replay service MyTF1 will launch a new version of its VoD multiscreen service on May 25th making more content available from the group’s four free TV channels (TF1, HD1, NT1 and TMC). Three original digital channels will also be embedded and the service will be compatible with the 4K standard. While the pay-VoD service […]
The fallout from the May 16th Proton rocket explosion and the total loss of a Mexican satellite continues to reverberate throughout the industry. SES on May 19th told a banker’s conference in New York that it was very much focusing on using rival launch specialists to Proton (and specifically mentioned Arianespace and SpaceX). SES told […]
Based on forecasts for 138 countries, the number of digital TV homes will increase by more than 1 billion between 2010 and 2020 to 1.65 billion – or up by 180 per cent, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The total will climb by 134 million homes in 2015 alone. According to the […]
Hollywood movie studio 20th Century Fox will release all of its new movies in Ultra HD and using High Dynamic Range (HDR) for home entertainment viewing. HDR delivers a much wider range of density and luminosity in the image. In very simple terms it means whites are whiter and the range of shadows in dark […]
FreeWheel concluded 2014 reporting strong growth and evolution in the digital TV market. The company’s Q1 2015 report shows those trend are continuing.Another quarter of growth and maturity is being led by “the new living room.” The same high-quality TV content that was traditionally consumed in the living room is today being experienced by the […]
Akamai Technologies, a specialist in content delivery network (CDN) services, has released its Q1 2015 State of the Internet – Security Report. “In the Q1 2015 report, we’ve analysed thousands of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks observed across the PLXrouted network as well as nearly millions of web application attack triggers across the Akamai […]