Digital migration equipment worth $9.5 million has been delivered to Zambia, and will be used by contract winner Star Times Group to start the nation’s analogue to digital conversion. Godfrey Malama, Minister of Information & Broadcasting Services, said: “What we have come to view here is equipment that will be used in the first phase […]
Sometimes an April Fool joke can be so convincing and well detailed that a complete nation is taken in. Such was yesterday’s April 1st story on South Africa’s plans to abandon its digital TV adoption plan and carried by Advanced-Television.com. The story, which told of South Africa’s continuing commitment to analogue TV, managed to fool […]
Fox International Channels has expanded its UK rights agreements with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution for 2015 and beyond. American Horror Story: Hotelon , the fifth season of the horror anthology series, will open its doors Fox later this year. Fox will continue to air UK Premiere episodes of American Dad before any other UK […]
Intelsat has confirmed the promotion of two seasoned executives. The moves come as Stephen Spengler officially assumes the role of Chief Executive Officer from Intelsat’s now executive chairman, Dave McGlade. Kurt Riegelman has been named Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, assuming leadership of Intelsat’s product management and marketing functions in addition to the company’s […]
As the 2014/15 Premier League season heads towards its finale, Sky Sports will once again be the only place to see the title race with Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United live every weekend in the lead up to the last day of the season. Sky Sports has added 13 fixtures in May to […]
Telestream, a provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, hasa announced availability of a new product built on its Vantage media processing platform. VoD Producer DAI is a software-based system that provides a proven Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) solution for content owners and cable TV multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) of all sizes seeking to realise the revenue […]
In a move that will see it become the second largest cable operator in the US as the consolidation of the broadband cable sector continues, Charter Communications and Advance/Newhouse Partnership (the parent company of Bright House Networks) have agreed a deal that will see Charter acquire Bright House Networks for $10.4 billion. Bright House is […]
The workforce at Dutch cable company Ziggo is set to be cut by 450 over the next three years, following the merger with UPC. In addition, a number of temporary contracts will not be renewed, the company confirmed. Most jobs will go in the departments which focus on new product development, innovation and infrastructure as […]
After the opposition of Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance and public broadcaster RAI to the sale of the controlling interest (51 per cent) of the company that manages the TV transmission towers, it is now the turn of the Antitrust Authority. The competition watchdog said that the €1.2 billion bid by EI Towers, controlled […]
Annual revenues from apps accessed via mobile handsets and tablets are expected to reach $99 billion by 2019, research from Juniper Research has found. While games will continue to account for