Mediaset Spain, operator of Tele 5 and Cuatro, has acquired the TV rights to the Football World Cup 2018 to broadcast all 64 matches FTA in the country. Mediaset also aired matches from the previous World Cups in 2010 and 2014. Mediaset made a bid for all the 64 matches – not just the 27 […]
Orange is making software that turns smartphones into remote controls open source as it looks to make the technology available to other operators. The operator’s OCast software can be added to set-top boxes to enable consumers to use a smartphone to play videos, control playback and browse content libraries on their TVs. It said the […]
The contribution of mobile services to the growth of the global telecommunications services market over the 2016-2021 period is predited to be 80.4 per cent (+€ 64.1 billion in 5 years out of a total of + €79.7 billion) by iDate. In the wireline segment, internet revenue is being largely offset by the rapid and […]
Australia’s Federal Government has formally directed the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to commence an inquiry into digital platform providers such as Facebook and Google. The ACCC’s inquiry will look at the effect that digital search engines, social media platforms and other digital content aggregation platforms are having on competition in media and advertising […]
The launch date of SpaceX’s latest ‘Falcon Heavy’ rocket has been delayed. Frequently promised for 2017, that expectation has now formally been delayed into the New Year. However, SpaceX (and Tesla electric car) founder Elon Musk says he wants to use the debut flight to launch his own “midnight cherry red” Tesla Roadster into space. […]
Facebook is opening a new London office that will allow it to create 800 new UK jobs in 2018. By the end of next year about 2,300 people will work for the social media giant in the UK. The office will be Facebook’s biggest engineering hub outside the US, and opens during its tenth year […]
UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky showed a hard-hitting sexually explicit movie at 21.00 immediately after having screened 5 back-to-back episodes of The Simpsons. Broadcasting regulator Ofcom, in its report on a complaint received regarding strong language and sex scenes within an 18-rated action-thriller movie ‘Wanted’, said: “The complainant said that her 11-year-old son was watching and […]
Insight TV, one of the world’s largest UHD broadcasters and producer of native UHD HDR content, has announced two key appointments in a continued effort of growth and expansion. Newly hired Robert Gold has been appointed Vice President of Distribution for the Americas and Jonathan Shrank, has been promoted to Vice President, Distribution, EMEA, effective […]
BuyDRM and Bitmovin have partnered with sports-first streaming TV service fuboTV. As part of the deployment, Bitmovin will provide fuboTV with cloud-based encoding and encryption via the Bitmovin Encoding platform integrated with BuyDRM’s KeyOS Encryption Key API. BuyDRM will in-turn provide DRM licensing services to fuboTV’s end users around the world via the KeyOS MultiKey […]
Immedia Group has announced its DreamStream X radio platform which allow brands to combine live audio and visual streaming through its own in-house entertainment platform direct to customer’s mobile phones. DreamStream X works by streaming live broadcasts from Immedia’s own studios onto an app integrated within a brand’s platform and delivered to people’s mobile phones. […]