Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully landed its 1st stage rocket following the launch of Formosat-5, a science satellite, on August 24th. The rocket’s powerful first stage was landed on SpaceX’s “Just Read the Instructions” floating barge, situated off the coast of southern California. In what is fast becoming a routine event this was the 15th successful […]
BT Media and Broadcast, the digital media and broadcast solutions arm of the telco, is to broadcast live coverage of two Aviva Rugby Union Championship matches in UHD at broadcast technology show IBC over the weekend of September 16-17, using the latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) equipment from NTT Electronics, supplied by its UK […]
Facebook has struck a deal with digital sports network Stadium that will see the social networking company live-stream 15 US College Football games this season starting next week. The agreement gives Facebook exclusive rights to show six Mountain West games and nine Conference USA games. The games will not be televised. Facebook also recently reached […]
Globecast , the global solutions provider for media, has been chosen to broadcast the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the 29th Summer Universiade Taipei 2017, being held in Taipei, Taiwan. The signals, being broadcast in 4K HEVC format , are available in Asia via AsiaSat 5 , Europe via Eutelsat, and North & South America […]
ESPN Player will bring coverage of the 2017 NCAA College Football season to fans across the EMEA region, anytime, anywhere. The live and on-demand sports streaming service will give viewers the opportunity to watch more than 600 college football games on their desktops, iPads and mobile phones. The College Football Season kicks off on August […]
Social media app Snapchat will add scripted content to its service “before the end of year”. Nick Bell, head of content for the photo-sharing platform, said that the company was not seeking to take-on traditional broadcasters, but rather complement them. “Instead, it can help bolster them,” he said, speaking at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. […]
Two London licensees have been found guilty of four offences each of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Timothy Sheahan and Seamus Fogarty of Greenes in Neasden, were found guilty in their absence of four offences and were each fined £2,500 (€2,715) per […]
Findings from Parks Associates indicate that Roku is increasing its lead in the streaming media player landscape. As of Q1 2017, 37 per cent of streaming media players owned by US broadband households are Roku devices, up from one-third in Q1 2016. The firm’s latest industry report – Reinventing CE: Transforming Devices to Service Platforms […]
The European Commission has given its go-ahead to Italy’s De Agostini Editore and Viacom International Media Networks Italia for the joint control of DeA Broadcast. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns because DeA Broadcast has negligible actual and foreseen activities within the EEA. Moreover, there are only very limited […]
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) will not oppose Birketu Pty Ltd (Birketu) and Illyria Nominees Television Pty Ltd’s (Illyria) proposed joint bid to acquire Ten Network Holdings Limited (Ten). Birketu, owned by Bruce Gordon, and Illyria, owned by Lachlan Murdoch, propose to each acquire a 50 per cent interest in Ten, and to […]