Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has awarded a contract worth over €160,000 to Leadership Business Consulting for a study on expanding DTT in the country. The contract was signed after a restricted tender and based on prior qualification. According to the document, published on Portugal’s public procurement portal, the study must “take into account the […]
Orange Spain has launched a new set-top-box compatible with 4K and Netflix in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The new STB, branded WHD81, also allows subscribers to access to YouTube, the streaming service Rakuten TV and 4K content. The STB has a new interface with two USB ports to watch TV content with DTT functionality.
With an additional nine TV operators joining SES’s Ultra HD trials, a total of 30 US pay-TV providers, with a combined audience of more than 10 million subscribers, are now testing SES’s 4K content delivery platform across their distribution networks. The latest wave of pay-TV system operators to ink Ultra HD trial agreements with SES […]
The past few days have seen some extraordinary valuations put on Netflix by Wall Street investors and their advisers following on from a surprisingly good set of results from the streaming company on July 17th. Morgan Stanley, for example, is happy to place a target price of $210 per share, while other investment banks talk […]
Police in the UK Midlands city of Derby have executed a warrant as part of a crackdown on devices that illegally stream subscription services, in a joint investigation with intellectual property protection organisation FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft). The warrant took place on Tuesday July 18th as part of ongoing work to stop the use […]
French broadcaster TF1 has reported a H1 current operating profit reached €107.6 million, an increase of €50.1 million year-on-year, including €30.7 million of savings arising from the lack of any major sporting events during the first half of 2017. The effects of the multi-channel strategy adopted from the back to school period in 2016 and […]
Indian business giant Mukesh Ambani who is chairman & MD of Reliance Industries, itself India’s second largest business, and India’s richest individual, used the company’s AGM to showcase a new smartphone, the advanced JioPhone which he says will permit users to view JioTV and Jio Cinema as well as make calls, and in the process, […]
MTG has completed the previously announced acquisition of 100 per cent of US games publisher and developer Kongregate Inc. for an Enterprise Value of $55 million (€47.2m). Jørgen Madsen Lindemann, MTG President and CEO: “Consumers now spend almost a third of their mobile device time playing games, and Kongregate is a great fit with our […]
MVNA (Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator) x-Mobility has agreed a partnership with TVPlayer. The deal means that x-Mobility has added TV streaming to its voice, text and data services for brands that wish to become mobile providers. TVPlayer enables viewers to watch the best free-to-air UK TV channels including BBC One, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 […]
Scripps Networks Interactive has announced the continued expansion of global home and lifestyle channel HGTV in South Korea. Immediately available, HGTV has launched in HD on KT olleh tv as the first-ever regional channel dedicated exclusively to the growing home and lifestyle category in Korea. “HGTV is highly regarded as the preeminent destination for home-related […]