Netflix show The Get Down, a musical drama exploring the birth of hip-hop and directed by Baz Luhrmann, has been axed after just one season. The show had a production cost of $120 million – the largest ever for Netflix – but metrics from Variety suggest that it was only attracting around one-fifth of the audience […]
Kazakhstan’s Information & Communications Minister, Dauren Abeyev says that the state’s public broadcasting channels – terrestrial and satellite – are not competitors to each other. BBC Monitoring has reported that the country has recently modernised the portfolio of channels. “We have modernised state media assets and launched a first Kazakh Yel Arna cinema channel, which […]
Channel 4 has commissioned a new Gogglebox-style review show for 16-24 year-olds featuring online viral content and a regular cast of young reviewers, exploring the content they consume beyond their television sets. Produced by Studio Lambert, a first series of 6 x 60 minute episodes of Vlogglebox will launch on E4 on June 18th. Vlogglebox […]
SPI International / FilmBox is launching FightBox HD channel with Discover Digital, a digital media company in South Africa. FightBox HD is a 24/7 combat sports channel which presents multiple martial arts disciplines as well as live MMA and kickboxing events from Europe and the US. Discover Digital offers the channel on its IPTV service […]
BBC Worldwide has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chinese media company, Shanghai Media Group Pictures (SMG) that will see expansion of the Doctor Who brand in China. The agreement will see BBC Worldwide working with SMG to increase the Doctor Who fan base in China, exploring future opportunities as well as exchanging expertise between […]
AccuWeather, a global player in weather information and digital media, has announced the launch of the new AccuWeather app for Android TV. The highly customisable app delivers a unique, interactive weather experience to Android TV viewers and further expands AccuWeather’s cross-platform reach, as users rely on AccuWeather’s Superior Accuracy across devices and locations worldwide. The […]
Broadcast Products, a division of Broadcast Solutions, has recently added FileCatalyst, an Emmy award-winning expert in managed file transfers and a leading accelerated file transfer solution, to its products portfolio. Both companies have announced today that they have developed a new channel distribution partnership with Broadcast Products to distribute FileCatalyst products in the DACH, CIS, […]
The European Council has signed off the proposal for a revised directive on audiovisual media services (AVMS). At the heart is a 30 per cent content quota for European SVoD services. The Council says aim of the proposal is to respond to the unprecedented technological and market changes of digital shift and to boost the […]
According to Jonathan Broughton, Senior Analyst at research firm IHS Markit, and Tim Westcott, Senior Principal Analyst, the launch by Amazon of Amazon Channels, an offering of subscription channels and apps available to Amazon Prime customers, in the UK and Germany, should not be seen as offering an alternative to the Sky packages available in […]
Customer satisfaction with subscription television is down 1.5 per cent to 64, tied with Internet Service providers for last place among 43 industries tracked by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). New ACSI results show that wireless service is the only telecom industry to improve. Internet service providers, fixed-line telephone and cell phones are unchanged, […]