BT Sport is to become the home of the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup in the UK and Ireland, having secured the rights to broadcast all of the tournaments’ matches live. The new deal, starting from the 2018/19 season, will see BT Sport showing all of the best European Club […]
June 28th saw Inmarsat’s S-EAN (European Aviation Network) satellite launched by an Arianespace rocket. The satellite’s launch is controversial and Eutelsat, ViaSat of California and in-flight communications company Panasonic Aviation have lodged objections to the European Court of Justice and asking for an injunction to be issued to stop Inmarsat’s satellite opening for business. The […]
Amazon will pay US viewers $10 to watch one of its Prime shows or movies through their TV set. All Prime members need to do is sign into the Prime Video app on a device such as a smart TV, gaming console of Fire TV and watch a video. In return, they’ll get a $10 […]
A worker at LG Display, at its Paju, South Korea, factory lost his life in an industrial accident at the site last week. Local reports say that all LCD production output has ceased at the facility, with inspectors and officials making an investigation into the matter. South Korean news sources say that the plant closure […]
London-based speciality satellite operator Avanti Communications issued a trading update early on July 4th, and following on from its July 3rd confirmation of its recent debt and financial restructuring. Avanti says that revenues for the full financial year were “about $62 million”, and adds that “a number of projects to sell spectrum are progressing well […]
Ad verification vendor Meetrics and video ad serving platform SpotX have joined forces to provide additional inventory verification and audience behaviour data for video advertisers in Europe and around the globe. The integration makes Meetrics’ data available in SpotX’s platform for publishers to report back to advertisers, increasing the depth of viewability, verification and audience […]
Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of Prime Focus, is pleased to announce their continuing expansion with a new office in Sydney, Australia, to provide an increased level of local support for customers in the region. The company is also announcing the appointment of Graeme Whineray to be the Director of Sales for ANZ […]
The 100 leading television services in the informitv Multiscreen Index gained 3.46 million subscribers between them in the first quarter of 2017, an increase of 0.79 per cent. In the same period in 2016 the increase was 6.90 million, or 1.68 per cent. • There were modest gains across the board, with the Americas up by 0.85 million, Europe, Middle East and Africa up […]
The digitisation of content and networks is resulting in rapid and profound changes in audiovisual consumption patterns, characterised by a disaffection for linear programming, rapid adoption of streaming and on-demand consumption, the arrival of new players and internationalisation of content and services. One of the only certainties in this restructuring and still unstable market is […]
Service providers and content owners from the APAC region participating in the Pay-TV Innovation Forum 2017 have agreed that the pay-TV industry in the region is entering a transitional period during which operators will need to adapt their business models and technology platforms in order to thrive in the changing environment. The Forum is a […]