Ofcom has published its annual reports into the consumer experience of the fixed and mobile, Internet and digital broadcasting markets. Around half of all UK adults access multichannel television at home through Freeview, with 34 per cent only using Freeview. This compares to 30 per cent only using satellite and 14 per cent only using […]
Ed Vaizey, Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, has stressed the importance for the creative industries of being able to monetise their efforts. Delivering a Keynote address at the Let’s Go Connected event in London, Vaizey noted that the creative industries were a UK success story, with the digital landscape “unrecognisable” from […]
Senior representatives from broadcasting, network infrastructure, trade unions and professional organisations have called on EU decision-makers to shape an ambitious industrial strategy for Europe’s creative and cultural industries. They suggest that Europe’s unique radio and audiovisual model is a huge asset for the continent’s competitive position in the digital world, cultural diversity and media pluralism, […]
Messaging app Snapchat has introduced Discover, which it describes as a new way to explore stories from different editorial teams. In a Blog Post, the Snapchat Team describes the initiative as the result of collaboration with world-class leaders in media to build a storytelling format that puts the narrative first. “This is not social media,” […]
Advertising provides £187 (€251) worth of media, culture and sport to each UK household every year, according to a report commissioned by the Advertising Association. The research, conducted by Deloitte, claims that without advertising, much of the UK’s media, culture and sport would be “unsustainable”. The report examined advertising on television, radio, online services, newspapers […]
WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) has revealed that its WWE Network has surpassed 1 million subscribers just 11 months after launch. These results represent a 37 per cent increase (24 per cent domestically) in subscribers since last reported at the end of third quarter 2014, driven primarily by a successful free November promotion, the launch of […]
The cellular telephone industry is looking enviously at C-band frequencies for terrestrial use. A major international conference in Nigeria heard from Eutelsat’s CEO Michael de Rosen argue passionately that terrestrial operators should leave C-band exclusively for satellite transmission. “Opening the C-band to mobile operators would not herald the expansion of its use for new services. […]
Lord Hall, the Director General of the BBC, has said the watershed was unlikely to still be in effect in decades to come, admitting he “suspects” it may no longer be as relevant. Lord Hall told the Radio Times: “The watershed is still a useful way of judging the content and sensitivities, and taste and […]
Delivering video to any screen is one of the ‘primacy objectives’ for AT&T in its proposed acquisition of DirecTV, a strategy that will run alongside AT&T’s pursuit of OTT services with U-verse, Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chairman and CEO, said discussing the company’s Q4 results. “When we did this deal [for DirecTV] our customers are demanding […]
One in eight Australian households now have a Smart TV – almost a sixfold increase over the last four years, data from Roy Morgan Research shows. 1.125 million homes now contain at least one television with an inbuilt Internet connection, from brands including Panasonic, LG, Sony and Samsung. But as well as Smart TVs, there […]