According to Chase Carey, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Formula One Group, the sport faces a major challenge as it plans the way races are viewed in the future. Motorsport Network Formula One expert Adam Cooper says that Carey acknowledges that generating income from fans who are willing to pay for a […]
UK OTT service EE TV has become one of the first operators to offer a skill for Amazon Alexa via its set-top box. EE TV will support Alexa voice control through Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, meaning customers can just ask for information on what’s on, or to record their favourite shows. Customers can ask: […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel and premium channel Fox Sports are to be merged into a single company that could be listed on the stock exchange, owners News Corp and Telstra have announced. Fox Sports is completely owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, while Telstra and Foxtel currently share ownership of Foxtel. The pair say the […]
Turner and UEFA, the governing body of European football, have agreed a three-year multi-platform deal for the exclusive presentation of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League in the US beginning with the 2018-19 season. Timed to this multi-year rights agreement, Turner has also announced plans to launch a new standalone premium sports streaming […]
Sky is to broadcast Queens Park Rangers’ charity football match on September 2nd in aid of the West London community affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. The match, branded #Game4Grenfell, will see former football professionals, celebrities and special guests play a 90-minute match at QPR’s 18,000-capacity Loftus Road stadium in Shepherd’s Bush, the closest league ground […]
Virtual Reality (VR) is often viewed through the lens of consumer-driven gaming, but in a recent B2B technology survey of 455 US-based companies across nine vertical markets, ABI Research finds that while only 4 per cent of respondents have VR in operation, 85 per cent are at least in the stages of early investigation. In […]
Russian news service Interfax is reporting that the upcoming launch of Spanish satellite Amazonas-5, built by Space Systems/Loral, and originally expected to launch on September 9th, may now slip to later in September. Amazonas-5, owned by Hispasat of Madrid, is needed in orbit to replace capacity lost on Amazonas-4 when it suffered power problems in […]
Connected entertainment specialist VIZIO has added Google Play Movies & TV to its line of VIZIO Internet Apps Plus Smart TVs. The newly-added app brings a new dimension to the VIZIO Internet Apps Plus Smart TV experience by granting viewers access to tens of thousands of new release movies and next day TV shows, along […]
Deutsche Telekom is to present Thirty Seconds to Mars – the band comprised of Oscar winning actor and musician Jared Leto, Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic – live to a global audience in a 360° concert experience on September 2nd. The band will perform an exclusive show during the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) at the Telekom […]
Thailand’s Bangkok Post newspaper is reporting that the country’s government is seeking – at least – partial control of the upcoming Thaicom-9 craft. Thaicom-9 is due for launch in 2019 to the 119.5 degrees East orbital slot. “State telecom enterprise CAT Telecom will probably be assigned to partly operate and manage the state satellite,” Deputy […]