Altice’s new entertainment cookery channel and 360° media brand My Cuisine will launch on June 12th in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Michel Combes, CEO of Altice-subsidary SFR, calls it “the first real global project” from the group. My Cuisine will be available to SFR subscribers, and via OTT on SVoD platform SFR Play. My […]
Arianespace’s sixth successful launch this year also set a record in terms of weight lifted into orbit when it placed two satellites, owned by Eutelsat of Paris and ViaSat of California into a geostationary transfer orbit. The launch took place at 8.45pm local time in French Guiana on June 1st (01.45am June 2nd, Paris time). […]
ChyronHego’s flagship LyricX graphics creation and playout solution and HX graphics platform will be deployed by BT Sport in its live Ultra-HD coverage of the 2017 UEFA Champions League final match on June 3rd. MOOV, a UK sports and live-event graphics provider, has teamed up with BT Sport to present the UHD broadcast between Juventus […]
Netflix has cancelled sci-fi drama Sense8 after two seasons. The news comes just a week after the axing of another high-profile show – Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down. Sense8, a high-concept drama from the Wachowskis siblings – creators of The Matrix – was launched in 2015. A second season was launched on the streaming service […]
BBC One and BBC Music have announced broadcast plans for One Love Manchester, the special concert to be held on June 4th at Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground to honour and raise funds for the victims and families who were affected by the Manchester attack after Ariana Grande’s show last week. ITV had originally planned […]
Net Insight, a provider of media transport and resource scheduling, has partnered with Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC), Lagardère and Storyfire to provide an immersive racing viewing experience on mobile devices. The solution will be streamed and available for all fans at the premier of the STCC event at Solvalla, June 17th. “We are very excited […]
Ahead of the premiere of new season three episodes of “Fear the Walking Dead” on June 5th, AMC announced today that it has teamed up with Snapchat to create an exclusive “Fear the Walking Dead” zombie themed sponsored lens. The lens will allow fans of the series to paint their faces with blood, the technique […]
As anticipated, the proposed merger between Intelsat and Jersey-based satellite constellation OneWeb has been pulled. Intelsat, in a statement issued early on June 1st, said that not enough of its bond-holders had agreed the terms of the SoftBank-enabled financial restructuring to make the scheme work. Intelsat needed an 85 per cent acceptance level of the […]
Interviewed on CNBC to coincide with the seasonal launch of House of Cards, Netflix Founder and CEO Reed Hastings has described the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of the FCC’s ‘Open Internet’ network neutrality rules as “unfortunate”, accepting that it was probably going to happen, but that it wouldn’t be a big deal. Responding to suggestions […]
Atresmedia, operator of Antena 3 and La Sexta among others, will broadcast the final of the Champions League between Real Madrid and Juventus in 4K and free-to-air via streaming and DTT. The company has reached an agreement with Cellnex to broadcast the match in three Spanish cities – Madrid, Barcelona and Seville – with a […]