PT Telkom’s Telkom-1 satellite which suffered problems on August 25th is now considered totally lost. Specialist space debris tracking company ExoAnalytic Solutions has observed several large pieces which have been tracked individually, separate to the actual satellite. ExoAnalytic can track objects down to as 0.4 metres in size, and carried out similar work back in […]
APT Satellite will on September 4th be included in the Hong Kong stock exchange’s Hang Seng Global Composite Index. The news emerged along with the operator’s 6-month results to June 30th which showed flat revenues and a lowering of its all-important fill-rate. Of its 181 available transponders in the fleet they were 68.4 per cent […]
BBC Studioworks, a commercial subsidiary of the BBC, has re-opened the studio doors to the ‘home of British television’ at the Television Centre site in Central London. Television Centre, originally opened in 1960 and the biggest TV production facility of its kind in the world at the time, has been undergoing major redevelopment works since […]
Subscription, billing and customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Paywizard has formed a new strategic partnership with targeted user experiences for multiscreen video services expert Massive Interactive. The collaboration will enable operators to use rich data insight and predictive analytics to more effectively target subscribers and tailor the UI at the eight key ‘Decision Moments’ in […]
The Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) has announced the appointment of Agnieszka Horak as its new Director of Legal and Public Affairs, succeeding Emilie Anthonis who has accepted another position in Brussels. Horak brings extensive direct experience of the policy issues facing commercial broadcasters. She joins ACT from the Permanent Representation of Poland […]
FremantleMedia has announced that Nico Hofmann will take on the role of sole CEO of German film and television production company UFA Group with immediate effect. This move follows a two-year transition-period, announced back in September 2015, in which Wolf Bauer and Hofmann have headed UFA as Co-CEOs. Hofmann will assume overall management responsibilities for […]
According to the latest Dataxis’ quarter research, in the first half of the year 2017, total online music services for 11.2 million paid accounts. Spotify leads the market with 79 per cent of subscribers followed by Deezer with 13.2 per cent. Dataxis monitors on a quarterly basis paid accounts for premium online music services in […]
OTT video services provider Easel TV has recently added SVoD with membership on Curzon’s Home Cinema service. Easel TV has combined the use of TVoD and SVoD, as well as linking SVoD with cinema membership, giving Curzon multiple ways to market and monetise its Home Cinema service. The service – CURZON12 – is curated and […]
Samsung Electronics America has announced an exclusive US marketing and retail partnership with Xbox to utilise Samsung’s lineup of QLED TVs as the official 4K TV partner for the Xbox One X. The partnership kicked off at E3 2017 in June as attendees experienced, for the first time ever, true 4K HDR gaming on Xbox […]
Nordic major SF Studios, with head offices in Stockholm and subsidiaries in Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki, has opened an international production office in London. Kate Myers will, in the role as VP Development UK and International Production, head SF Studios’ international film development out of the London office. Myers, who most recently served as co-founder […]