BT has made its formal submission to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, about the proposed acquisition of EE. The company has said the acquisition will be good for competition, investment and innovation in the UK – and that consumers and businesses will benefit as a result. Central to BT’s argument is the fact the […]
Nearly 70 per cent of Ultra HD (UHD) TVs will support new technologies like high dynamic range (HDR), wider colour gamut, high frame rates, and immersive audio by 2020, says ABI Research. “Higher resolution content is
Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable operator, has reported net profit of €239 million for the fiscal year ended March 31st 2015, compared to a net loss of €68 million in the previous fiscal year. EBITDA amounted to €939 million compared to €910 million one year earlier; an increase of 3.3 per cent. The Group reported […]
Woody Allen regrets at agreeing to create exclusive programming for Amazon Prime TV. Speaking at a Cannes Film Festival event for his new movie, Irrational Man, Allen shared his misgivings for the six episode deal. “It was a catastrophic mistake for me,” Allen said. “I’m struggling with it at home. I never should have gotten […]
Shooting starts this week on Sky Italia’s latest 3D production. Last year Sky Italia beamed its Vatican Museums in 3D to subscribers but also to 2000 cinema screens in 60 countries in 3D. This latest documentary is focussed on Florence and its stupendous Uffizi Gallery, where the crew will take a 6K look at the gallery’s […]
Channels Television, one of Africa’s leading television broadcasters, has officially launched its news and current affairs station, Channels 24, in the UK. Viewers can find the new station on Sky Channel 575. Airing on Virgin Media and Freesat will soon follow. Channels 24 brings African and international news and current affairs content – politics, business, […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 94 per cent of the market – acquired nearly 1.2 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the first quarter of 2015. These top broadband providers now account for over 88.5 million subscribers – with […]
Scandinavian company Norigin Media has launched Cloudncoder.com, a platform for capturing, encoding and hosted Origin-server services for linear TV. The private cloud is launched with a pay-as-you-go business model to make online live-TV management affordable. Cloudncoder.com is a live-TV capture and transcoding platform, which is offered to broadcasting companies, news agencies, ad agencies, live content producers […]
BT Sport will show all 15 matches exclusively live from this summer’s UEFA European Under-21 Championship in June. The 2015 tournament takes place in the Czech Republic from June 17th to June 30th, With only eight teams competing, beginning with two group stages featuring four teams each, viewers will be able to watch England doing […]
In an exact repeat of last season’s ratings success, Sky has shown the most viewed matches from the 2014/15 Barclays Premier League. All 20 teams are featured in the 49 matches screened, underlining the importance to viewers of Sky Sports’ coverage of clubs at both ends of the table. Sky Sports viewers can still enjoy […]