The Board of Directors of Terragon Group has announced the appointment of Andrew Bing, former Chief Financial Officer of MTN Nigeria, as an independent non-executive director (NED) at the last board meeting which was held in London. This appointment comes against the backdrop of the company’s recent transition into a data and marketing technology business, […]
Revenues lost to online piracy will nearly double between 2016 and 2022 to $51.6 billion (€44.5bn), according to the Online TV Piracy Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Covering 138 countries, these forecasts include revenues lost to TV episodes and movies – but not other sectors such as sports or pay-TV. “Piracy will never be […]
Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the head of beIN Sports Media, spent a reported eight hours talking to Swiss prosecutors on October 26th over alleged corruption and bribery claims between Qatar-based beIN and FIFA’s officials over TV rights to the 2022 football World Cup tournament scheduled to be held in Qatar. Al-Khelaifi faces charges that allege links with […]
International TV and broadband company Liberty Global has announced that Balan Nair, currently Chief Technology & Innovation Officer for the company, will assume the position of President and CEO of its Latin American and Caribbean operation once the split-off from Liberty Global occurs, which is expected around the end of 2017. Nair brings to his […]
Sky Italia is planning to boost investments in new content and state-of-the-art technologies to continue to grow, earmarking around €1.4 billion per year. Speaking to Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore, CEO Andrea Zappia said that profitability has started to grow again over the last two years, thanks to efficient cost management and the search […]
Asia Broadcast Satellite’s co-founder and CEO Tom Choi has stepped down from the company. Choi said it was time for him to step and move on to other interesting projects, but that he would continue to sit on the company’s Board of Directors and he remains a significant investor in the company. Choi initially released […]
The EBU has secured the rights to the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games thanks to a new deal with the International Paralympics Committee (IPC). The EBU has managed the rights to the Paralympic Games for a number of years, working with the Organising Committees until 2012 and with the IPC […]
To mark 100 days to go until the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, Discovery Communications and Eurosport have unveiled their plans to transform the Olympic Winter Games viewing experience. First fully digital Games for Europe Eurosport says it will deliver the “first fully digital Games for Europe”, live and on-demand coverage across all screens in […]
Spot X talks about how it has evolved from a facilitator of programmatic TV to focus on the economics of the advertising market working with content owners to develop portfolios of markets and with brands to dynamically engage with those markets. Watch the interview with Randy Cooke, VP Enterprise Solutions HERE
India’s DTH operators are beginning to make some appealing offers to subscribers to Reliance’s DTH customers. Reliance is closing its DTH service on November 18th following on from the ending of its transmissions. TataSky and Dish TV are both pitching offers to Reliance Big TV customers, in essence swapping out Reliance set-top boxes and dishes […]