BT Sport subscribers can watch all the drama of this season’s Scottish Premiership play-offs after the SPFL announced that the channel will broadcast all six games live. BT Sport’s coverage will begin with the quarter-finals on May 9th and 17th, followed by the semi-final on May 20th and 23rd and the two-legged final on May […]
African Movie Channel Series (AMC Series) has launched on the StarTimes DTT and StarSat DTH African television platforms. AMC Series is an African entertainment channel showcasing the best and award-winning TV soaps, comedy and drama from Nigeria, peppered with some of the best series from all over Africa, 24 hours a day for the whole […]
ContentBridge Systems, a provider of digital content supply chain solutions to major studios, aggregators, independent distributors, has revealed a partnership agreement with Microsoft Azure. “Since its inception, ContentBridge has sought to change the way content companies address their digital supply chains,” says ContentBridge COO Doug Reinart. “Much attention is focused on the final delivery of […]
Technicolor has announced an end-to-end solution set for Network Service Providers that enables delivery of rich entertainment experiences across wired and wireless infrastructures. “We know that delivering high-quality content in a seamless viewing experience to consumers in their homes is a significant growth opportunity for NSPs,” said Michel Rahier, President of Connected Home, Technicolor. “From […]
GVIDI has announced a partnership with Popyoular. The Popyoular platform accumulates, structures and stores data about hundreds of thousands of trusted, editorial reviews from various sources in the US and Europe. These reviews will be matched within the GVIDI database to linear TV, VoD and over-the-top content of the TV operator. This enrichment will make it possible […]
Nielsen and Roku have announced an agreement that enables Nielsen to measure video advertising delivered to Roku players and Roku-powered smart TVs. Initially Nielsen and Roku will enable OTT measurement through Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings. Content providers who sign up will have the ability to measure their audience according to Nielsen demographics and Digital Ad […]
Lobbying group Broadcast Network Europe (BNE), under the banner of the Wider Spectrum Group, has sent a Letter to President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, as well as to Vice-President Andrus Ansip and Commissioner Günther Oettinger in order to call for recognition in the upcoming Digital Single Market communication of the crucial role spectrum […]
Time Warner has reported a profitable Q1 boosted by higher advertising and subscription revenue at its Turner division and HBO network. Revenue at Turner, which owns channels such as CNN and Cartoon Network, rose 4.5 per cent in the quarter. Advertising revenue grew 4 per cent, while subscription revenue rose 3 per cent. Revenue at […]
Parks Associates research shows 27 per cent of US broadband households now own a streaming media device and nearly 90 per cent of these households have these devices connected to the Internet. The firm’s Q1 2015 consumer survey reveals more consumers bought a streaming media device than a Blu-ray player in the last 12 months […]
Luxembourg-based SES’s Q1 results were revealed on April 30th with CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh saying the satellite operator had made a “productive start” to 2015. He said that SES was now serving 312 million homes worldwide, up 7 per cent on a year ago. SES was now transmitting 6526 channels, up 5 per cent y-o-y, […]