Frontier Silicon, a provider of smart audio and digital radio solutions, announces that it is working on technologies which will allow its smart radios and wireless speakers to be controlled via Amazon’s Echo and Echo Dot devices. By incorporating Amazon Alexa’s new Connected Speaker API, this solution will enable Alexa devices such as the Echo, […]
Propagate has teamed with Nitro Circus to handle international distribution of the high-octane, jaw-dropping series and specials from the leading action sports entertainment brand. Propagate will debut the Nitro Circus catalogue at MIPCOM. “Travis Pastrana and the Nitro Circus team have produced a collection of high-energy content featuring action sports stars from across the globe,” […]
Discovery Communications is to develop premium mid-form shows for Watch, a new platform for shows on Facebook. Discovery will produce shows both inspired by leading Discovery Communications’ properties and created exclusively for Facebook. The first Discovery show to launch on Watch is Animal Planet’s Celebrity Animal Encounters, which will be available during the first week in September. […]
UK subscription-free satellite TV platform Freesat is seeking proposals from manufacturers to develop a set-top box for its next generation consumer product. The new product will give manufacturers a significant opportunity to develop a new range of innovative set-top-boxes at scale for subscription-free satellite TV customers across the UK. The product requirements will be based […]
An RTL study has revealed that linear TV still dominates TV consumption in Germany, accounting for 80 per cent of Germans’ daily time spent watching TV and film content, but this drops to 60 per cent for 14-25 year-olds. Online content accounts for
Deutsche Telekom’s Ultra HD-ready MR 401 media receiver will provide EntertainTV customers with direct access to Netflix following its launch this October. DT, which already has exclusive sports rights, is now buying exclusive territory rights to TV series including MGM’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Deutsche Telekom has also secured the German launch rights to Fox Networks […]
Apple is considering moving its content unit to The Culver Studios where films from including Gone With The Wind and The Matrix were made. Former owners include RKO, Howard Hughes and Cecil B DeMille. The Studios would give Apple room to expand as it hires top Hollywood talent, according to three people familiar with the […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel and cinema chain Dendy are launching a new route to market for Australian and international film content by combining theatrical and premium on demand channels of distribution. They say the new model will create a more sustainable distribution strategy for niche feature and documentary films. This route to market provides a […]
French telco Iliad has reported H1 revenues are up 7.3 per cent year-on-year to €2,464 million. The Group continued its FTTH rollout drive during the first six months of 2017, with 900,000 new connectible sockets installed, bringing the total to 5.3 million at June 30th 2017, and some 110,000 additional subscribers connected to fibre during […]
Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe and Africa has announced FOX+ will be making its debut in Germany on October 4th, with European Telco Deutsche Telekom being the first partner in country to launch the new non-linear platform. Offering full series and seasons on-demand, FOX+ provides access to the vast TV content library from 21st Century […]