Sports fans in China can watch some of the best European football with Tencent Sports’ securing the live streaming rights for the Ligue 1 Conforama, Serie A TIM, FA Cup and the Scottish Premiership from sports media rights agency MP & Silva. The non-exclusive new media rights cover mainland China for season 2017/18. The new […]
It doesn’t much matter how the numbers are dressed up, the net result of the USA’s second-largest DTH operator, DISH Network, during its second-quarter reported a decline of 196,000 subscribers in its results announcement on August 3rd. DISH Network also had to report Q2 net income also fell a thumping 91 per cent (at $3,64 […]
Viacom posted higher earnings in the third quarter, boosted by the sale of its share of Epix. Earnings rose to $683 million, from $432 million (€581m) a year ago. The results include a $285 million gain on the sale of Epix. Adjusted net earnings were up 12 per cent. Revenue rose 8 per cent to […]
Aerospace giant Lockheed-Martin (L-M) is to invest $350 million into a factory dedicated to building “futuristic” satellites. The cash is being spent at L-M’s Waterton Canyon campus, near Denver, where L-M says it will now build “next generation” satellites “infused with innovation to provide future missions at reduced cost and cycle time”. The new building […]
GINX Esports TV, the world’s largest esports tv channel, has secured global TV rights to The International Dota 2 Championships 2017. The International Dota 2 Championships 2017 will run from August 7th through August 12th and will be held at the KeyArena in Seattle. Six teams have direct invites, while another 12 come in via […]
Social media giant Facebook is increasing its efforts to battle fake news by sending more suspected hoax stories to fact-checkers and publishing their findings online. It follows mounting criticism of the social media service for not doing enough to identify fake news on its platform. Facebook has also rolled out a new feature in four […]
World licensing leader MPEG LA has announced a call for patents essential to ATSC 3.0 standards in order to facilitate, for the convenience of the market, creation of a joint licence to the intellectual property of leading ATSC 3.0 developers on which those standards are based. ATSC 3.0 is a set of next generation TV […]
After 13 straight quarters of year-on-year tablet shipment declines, Apple posted a huge increase in Q2 2017 of +15 per cent. Meanwhile, Huawei has thrilled the industry for the last two years with sustained growth through a proven strategy of partnering with carriers and a good portfolio mix, tacking on another 42 per cent growth […]
The UK has become a nation of binge viewers, Ofcom research reveals, with eight in ten adults now watching multiple episodes of their favourite shows in a single sitting. The findings are part of Ofcom’s annual Communications Market Report 2017, which reveals stark differences in how older and younger people watch television. Eight in ten […]
Having revealed in its Full Year results that on a 12-month rolling basis churn was 11.5 per cent, Sky has taken steps to address the problem, with the introduction of Sky VIP, which it describes as the first tenure-based loyalty programme in the TV and Broadband sector. Sky foreshadowed the initiative in its results announcement, […]