French telco Orange’s CEO Stephane Richard has given a wide-ranging interview in French business newspaper Les Echos, saying clearly that a closer co-operation with pay-TV operator Canal Plus makes sense. According to a report on his comments from equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNP-Paribas, Richard’s comments lead the bank to expect announcement(s) to be made […]
Over 60 civil society and trade associations – representing publishers, journalists, libraries, scientific and research institutions, consumers, digital rights groups, start-ups, technology businesses, educational institutions and creator representatives – have sent an open letter to the Ministers attending the Competitiveness Council and European Parliament Rapporteur MEP Therese Comodini Cachia and her colleagues, asking them to […]
Investors and bond-holders in Intelsat have less than two days left, until midnight (New York-time) May 31st, to decide whether to accept the revised terms on offer from Japanese media conglomerate SoftBank in its proposed merger between Jersey-based OneWeb and Intelsat. The deadline was established back on May 17th, and was the fourth time that […]
UK transmission and facilities company Arqiva is expected to start its ‘far sale’ process this week with the issue of a Prospectus for potential buyers. The Daily Telegraph newspaper, in a detailed report, says that bankers for Arqiva will issue the Prospectus in the next few days. Arqiva is responsible for transmitting much of the […]
Italian thematic TV channel producer Giglio Group has partnered with local food and wine guide Gambero Rosso to launch a global English language channel. The TV channel will be devoted to top-quality food and promotion of the Italian regions. It will be initially distributed on the platforms on which Giglio Group already has a presence […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has announced the appointment of Noel Curran to succeed Ingrid Deltenre as its new Director General. Curran is expected to take up the position at the beginning of September. Curran is the former DG, Managing Director of Television and Editor of Current Affairs of RTÉ, Ireland’s national television and radio […]
Leveraging its inherent strengths in high performance and high reliability, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance is set to introduce MoCA Access; a new broadband access specification based on the MoCA 2.5 standard which is capable of 2.5 Gbps actual data rates and leverages the existing in-building coaxial cabling. Expected availability is mid-June 2017. MoCA Access […]
Broadcast satellite services provider Media Broadcast Satellite is to provide uplink services for all transponders on Eutelsat 9B at 9° East for the European pay-TV provider M7 Group from July 2017 onwards. M7 uses this satellite position for the distribution of both local, thematic and international TV packages to cable and IPTV networks in the […]
Telco entertainment solution provider Netgem, has launched its CloudTV product tailored for the German cable and IPTV market with purtel.com, a wholesale IP services provider becoming the first customer. The purTV service will be distributed by purtel.com to its cable and Internet service provider client base to enable them to upgrade their TV propositions. Consumers […]
Société burkinabè de télédiffusion (SBT) is using Eutelsat’s 3B satellite to help transition the nation to DTT. Eutelsat has secured a multi-year agreement with SBT, which is the public agency responsible for the development of DTT. Announced at Discop Abidjan, the capacity will add to the existing distribution deal in place which delivers about 20 […]