Nautical Channel has teamed up with WOW, a leading operator in Bermuda, to provide all the top watersports content from around the world on the island of Bermuda a week before the start of the 35th America’s Cup. During the America’s Cup in Bermuda, Nautical Channel will provide the following programs to its global audience: […]
Blackmagic Design has 14 exciting announcements this Broadcast Asia. The king of the hill is definitely DaVinci Resolve 14. With parallel workflows, an editor, a colourist, and a sound engineer would be able to produce film at least 3 times as fast. They no longer have to “pass” the film on to the next guy. […]
Vibrant TV has selected Tulix Systems to serve as the streaming platform for delivery of the linear channel to its US broadcast and cable affiliates as well as online portals including Opera and Yip-TV. Vibrant TV is a multi-platform entertainment destination offering Comedy, Drama, Sports, Reality, Travel, Lifestyle, and Family programming originating from prestigious production […]
EU citizens with subscriptions for online films and TV will soon be able to access their content while temporarily in another EU country, following a vote in the European Parliament. The new rules approved by the Parliament – and previously agreed with Council negotiators in February 2017 – will remove restrictions so that EU citizens […]
The Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) has welcomed the European Parliament’s adoption of the proposal for a regulation on cross-border portability. Once in effect, the regulation will ensure that online content service subscribers in the Union, which are delivered on a portable basis, can receive these services when temporarily present in another Member […]
The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections alleging that multinational telecommunications company Altice breached the EU Merger Regulation by implementing its acquisition of telecommunications operator PT Portugal before notification or approval by the Commission. Altice does not agree with the Commission’s preliminary conclusions, and will submit a full response to the statement of […]
Fox has announced that Roger Ailes founder, and until recently chairman and CEO of Fox News, has died at the age of 77. Ailes resigned from Fox in summer 2016 in the wake of former Fox News Channel Host Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment lawsuit against him. Ailes had denied the allegations. In a statement to […]
The Conservative Party election manifesto says its government would punish digital companies, social media platforms and content providers that fail to take down content from the internet which breaks the law. “We will introduce a sanctions regime to ensure compliance, giving regulators the ability to fine or prosecute those companies that fail in their legal […]
Facebook has been fined €110 million by the EU for providing “incorrect or misleading” information on its purchase of WhatsApp in 2014. The European Commission said Facebook had promised it could not automatically match user accounts on its own platform and WhatsApp. But two years later it launched a service that did exactly that. The […]
Vodafone Spain has reached a deal with Sony Pictures and Paramount to broadcast their latest blockbuster movies in 4K. Subscribers to Vodafone will be able to watch the 4K movies on VoD, with the first available titles including Passengers, Trainspotting 2 and Smurfs: The Lost Village, among others. The Sony Pictures catalogue is composed of […]