This week at the SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo, KAON, a global leader for pay TV and broadband technology solutions, will unveil its leading portfolio of set-tops and broadband solutions that continue to define the new era of cable telecommunications, both in the home and in the network. KAON will be at booth #2175 at the Expo, […]
VeEX, a global player in Telecom, CaTV, Fibre, Transport and Broadband Access and Nimble This, a provider of commercial PNM solutions, have entered into a partnership agreement bringing Nimble This PNM to VeEX VeSion Monitoring platform. Proactive Network Maintenance, PNM, is a technology that uses DOCSIS pre-equalization and Full Band Capture data from cable modems […]
Insight TV, a UHD HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content covering action sports, entertainment and lifestyle, has announced a major production partnership with CJ E&M, South Korea’s largest media conglomerate. Insight TV and CJ E&M are co-producing two unique one-hour films that will examine how athletes in PyeongChang use technology to maximise their […]
Netflix added a Q3-record 5.3 million memberships globally (up 49 per cent year-over-year) as it continued to benefit from strong appetite for its original series and films, as well as the adoption of Internet entertainment across the world.In a Letter to Shareholders, the streaming giant said that relative to its guidance of 4.4 million net […]
Gary Davey, MD Content Europe for Sky, told delegates attending his keynote speech in the Sony UHD Theatre at MIPCOM that Ultra HD has been a big success in the UK, and that Germany and Italy will follow with a Sky Q proposition in the next year. Davey said UHD was in the top three reasons […]
More than 30 per cent of Europe’s mobile connections will be running on 5G networks by 2025, according to a new GSMA study. The 2017 Europe edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Economy series, forecasts that there will be 214 million 5G connections in Europe by 2025, establishing the region as one of the largest 5G […]
According to Dataxis research for the second quarter of 2017, SVoD subscribers in SAARC countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan) have reached 2.8 million at a quarter on quarter rate of 89 per cent, compared to 1.5 million in the second quarter of 2016. Among the SAARC countries, India is by far […]
NBCUniversal and Snap have joined forces to create a new digital content studio. Based in Santa Monica, California, the joint venture will make made-for-mobile programming to debut primarily on multimedia mobile application Snapchat. The initial focus will be to develop and produce shows, including scripted and other genres, for the platform. NBCUniversal and Snap have equal […]
BBC Worldwide has premiered the Corporation’s Natural History Unit’s latest landmark series Blue Planet II at MIPCOM in Cannes, and in Ultra HD. Julian Hector, Head of the Natural History Unit, and Executive Producer James Honeyborne introduced the series to MIPCOM delegates in the Sony UHD Theatre. The seven-parter, presented by Sir David Attenborough, has been […]
A white paper from business information provider IHS Markit has revealed that scripted TV production in the US — excluding online content — declined in 2016, largely due to lower origination by the cable networks. Meanwhile, output by the US broadcast networks remained mostly unchanged. The white paper, Boom or Bubble? The Rise of Scripted […]