BT Sport has agreed a commercial partnership with Snapchat to offer the 10 million+ daily Snapchatters in the UK a new way to experience the climax of this season’s UEFA Champions League. The partnership saw Snapchat produce Our Stories for the semi-finals between AS Monaco and Juventus, and Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, and will […]
Gravitas Ventures, a rights distributors of independent films, has announced the launch of a new channel and partnership with Pluto TV, the free Internet TV service in the US. The digital platform further expands its channel offering with “Gravitas Movies” an exclusive channel on Pluto TV showcasing the best of Gravitas content. Under the terms […]
SkyVision Global Networks, a global telecom engineering, satellite communication service provider and managed service supplier, has been awarded a contract by Global IP to supply, build and maintain the ground infrastructure of 11 Ka-band gateway stations in different European teleports for Global IP’s GiSat-1 satellite network. Construction of the turn-key gateway stations will begin in […]
DoCoMo Pacific is partnering with ARRIS International to offer an advanced whole home TV service – featuring live, on demand, and streaming capabilities – for its customers in Guam and the Mariana Islands. DoCoMoPacific selected ARRIS’s MG1 video gateway to enable the new services. The MG1 lets subscribers stream the same content to multiple IP […]
Bloomberg Media Distribution has announced a partnership with The Economist to distribute their authoritative insight and opinion videos on international news, politics, business, finance, science, and technology to global audiences. Bloomberg Media Distribution will distribute video content from The Economist, alongside the best of Bloomberg’s multi-platform content offerings and joining partners The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, […]
Kantar Millward Brown has partnered with Samba TV in the US to launch a single-source measurement solution for television advertising effectiveness. The partnership combines Samba’s TV dataset with Kantar Millward Brown’s Ignite Network, a brand marketing analytics platform, to provide marketers with precision and granularity in TV effectiveness measurement. The joint initiative matches Kantar Millward […]
Next month, ADB will showcase vuTyme 4.4, a robust In-Room Entertainment System packed with scalable features supporting all hotel tiers, from economy to luxury. vuTyme 4.4 is fully customisable and contains three choices of User Interface, enabling hoteliers to apply their unique branding guidelines to unify the look and feel for guests. Each feature-set contains […]
Mixed martial arts drama, Kingdom, has returned to the UK for the third series, exclusive to Virgin TV customers. The first episode premieres on June 1st on Virgin TV on demand, to coincide with the US launch date. A new episode will be available each following week for a total of ten episodes. The show […]
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of de facto control over Telecom Italia by Vivendi. The decision is conditional on the divestment of Telecom Italia’s stake in Persidera. Telecom Italia is also active, through its subsidiary Persidera (a joint venture with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso), in the market for the wholesale access to digital terrestrial […]
According to Dataxis research, 314 million of TV households now receive TV signals via Free-to-Air satellite, which represents 18 per cent of the worldwide TV households. FTA satellite distribution is becoming more and more important and Dataxis forecasts that this ratio will reach 20 per cent in 2021. The penetration rate for FTA DTH varies […]