Ukraine football team FC Shakhtar Donetsk has partnered with online video specialist StreamAMG to launch its new online video service. The new platform, branded FCSD.tv Live, will broadcast live and on-demand all home Ukrainian league games of FC Shakhtar Donetsk, as well the club’s friendly games. The initial three-year contract represents a major European deal […]
According to Russia’s InterFax news agency, the much-delayed launch of EchoStar’s E-21 satellite has again been postponed, probably to January 31st. The launch was originally scheduled to take place from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in mid-December, but was then delayed so that further tests could be carried out on the giant Proton/BrizM rocket. A […]
ZDF Enterprises (ZDF-E) says that sales to broadcasters of The Celts: Blood, Iron & Sacrifice, a specialist factual programme produced by ZDF and BBC in association with Arte and ZDF Enterprises, are going very well. ZDF-E has the rights to worldwide sales of the series outside the UK. To date, the three-part mini-series has been […]
Sky Sports Mix has added another extreme sport to its schedule with Tough Mudder – a sporting event that sees contestants take on a series of hardcore obstacle courses. Sky Sports Mix will broadcast this year’s World’s Toughest Mudder adding to the schedule that has seen 33 different sports since the new channel launched to […]
In December 2016, SBS, a privately owned broadcasting company in South Korea, aired its first broadcast in the ATSC 3.0 UHD standard. The sporting event – a world cup short track speed skating race – was terrestrially broadcast from the transmitter station on Kwanak Mountain where Rohde & Schwarz installed a liquid-cooled R&S THU9 transmitter […]
Netflix has reported 7.05 million net new members globally in Q4 2016 against its forecast of 5.2 million and 2016’s Q4 performance of 5.59 million. This represents the largest quarter of net additions in its history and was driven by strong acquisition trends in both its US and International segments. As the streaming giant revealed […]
The impressive subscriber numbers from Netflix should worry traditional broadcasters, says one analyst. Adding around 7 million net subscribers (5.1 million international) during its Q4 suggests that sometime this Spring, Netflix will pass the 100 million subscriber mark. Currently the subscriber base is 93.8 million. US ARPU grew a massive 14.9 per cent, while International […]
Talks between China’s Beijing Xinwei Technology Group and Spacecom of Israel have broken down. Some five months of dialogue, and not helped by the September 1st loss of the AMOS-6 satellite, have scuppered the prospects of a sale by Spacecom. Spacecom, which operates the Amos fleet of satellites, simply says that the talks ended without […]
The BBC iPlayer has been ranked third on YouGov BrandIndex’s list of the UK’s top brands, with SVoD service Netflix a new entry into the top ten in sixth position. YouTube also made the top ten in ninth. For the third year in a row, discount supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl fill the two top […]
Italian broadcaster Mediaset expects an EBIT improvement on the Italian TV activities of €468 million by 2020. According to the development guidelines and business/financial goals presented to financial analysts in London, market share on the total advertising market in Italy should go up from the current 37.4 per cent to more than 39 per cent […]