Jo Johnson MP, the UK’s Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation in the Department for Education, has added Intellectual Property to his portfolio of responsibilities. The role will be shared with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He takes over from previous incumbent Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, who was appointed Commercial […]
Hathway Cable & Datacom says it is spinning off its cable TV business into a separate wholly-owned subsidiary. The parent company will retain the profitable broadband business, and this is a reverse of an expected position from Hathway. Hathway says that broadband is the primary growth driver of the business. Spinning off the cable TV […]
Digi-Capital has released a market report on the future of mobile AR and is predicting big things after a mixed first year: “VR will be big, AR will be bigger and take longer.” What sounded revolutionary when we first said
Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) is leasing a complete Ku-band transponder from SES on its AMC-3 satellite to supply ‘direct to seat’ entertainment and broadband to aircraft passengers over North America, the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico regions. SES will rename the capacity ‘Eagle 1’ for GEE. AMC-3 is in inclined orbit. The deal was initially […]
Starz Play, the on-demand video streaming service available in 19 countries across the MENA region, has announced an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to provide its movies and series to the service’s subscribers. Khaled Benchouche, SVP of Programming & Acquisition at Starz Play, commented: “We are delighted to be working with 20th Century […]
AptoVision, Aquantia, Christie Digital, NETGEAR, Sony and ZeeVee announced that they have formed the SDVoE Alliance to standardise the adoption of Ethernet to transport AV signals in professional AV environments, and to create an ecosystem around SDVoE technology that allows software to define AV applications. All AV distribution and processing applications that demand zero-latency, uncompromised […]
Viacom International Media Networks,the entertainment conglomerate, has taken a minority stake in Israeli channels provider Ananey Communications Group. The deal sees the two companies build on their current relationship: Ananey already licenses Viacom brands such as Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV in Israel. Financial details were not disclosed. “This deal will deepen our partnership with […]
Struggling music streaming service Pandora is laying off 7 per cent of its staff. The decision to downsize is said to be direct result of the failure of a buy-out of Pandora by pay-radio broadcaster SiriusXM. “Making workforce reductions is always a difficult decision,” Pandora CEO Tim Westergren said. “But the commitment to cost discipline […]
Scripps Networks Interactive has announced that Chairman, President & CEO Kenneth W. Lowe will be appointed to the role of Chair of the Supervisory Board of TVN, the Warsaw-based, multi-platform media company that was acquired by Scripps Networks in July 2015. In a parallel move, President of Scripps Networks International Jim Samples, who has been […]
Shaw Communications has unveiled Shaw BlueSky TV, a new premium television product for Canadians. “Powered by Comcast’s next generation X1 platform, Shaw BlueSky TV leverages the strength of our network to make this new television experience possible for Shaw customers,” said Brad Shaw, CEO of Shaw Communications. “We are proud to be the first in […]