UK Commercial broadcaster ITV has reported its full year results to December 31st 2017, with total external revenue up 2 per cent to £3.1 billion (€2.4bn), driven by double digit growth in non-NAR. Total ITV Studios revenue were up 13 per cent to £1.5 billion, with 7 per cent organic revenue growth, excluding currency. The […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, licensees of four premises in the northeast and northwest of England have been found to be infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports without having the required commercial agreements. As a result of civil proceedings in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, Martin Adamson of The Bay Horse Hotel, […]
Following Dataxis research, 34 mobile operators have already deployed OTT as added value to their clients. Moreover, some of the operators are keen to add third party platforms to empower their offer like América Móvil and Telefónica. There are also 11 cases of mobile networks only offering third party OTT, most of the actors are […]
The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, said the FCC was working on plans on the next steps needed to make the 3.7 – 4.2 GHz (C-band) available for commercial terrestrial use in the coming months. The positive news helped propel shares in Intelsat, which first proposed […]
The smart speaker market took a giant step towards mainstream acceptance in Q4 2017 as aggressive discounting tactics and a wider choice of models, price points and country availability resulted in millions of first time buyers, reports Strategy Analytics. Full year shipments hit 32 million units, up over 300 per cent year-on-year, with Google and […]
South Africa’s Communications Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has confirmed that the country’s shift to digital TV broadcasting will not mean an enforced encryption on DTT set-top boxes reported the Business Day newssite. “The current government policy is non-encryption. Thus far, 1.5-million set-top boxes have been ordered and approximately 850,000 were delivered,” said a spokeswoman speaking on […]
Amazon and global content provider Lionsgate have signed an exclusive multiyear agreement under which Lionsgate will deliver a diverse line-up of Hollywood blockbusters to Amazon Prime Video customers across Mexico, Brazil and the rest of Latin America. The agreement provides for Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment label films to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video following […]
Movie writer and director M. Night Shyamalan is the latest big name to head over to Apple’s TV studio. The mid behind movies including The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Happening, Split and Unbreakable will produce a thriller TV series exclusively for Apple’s new streaming service. There are no plot details revealed yet, but the series will […]
The launch of Hispasat’s latest satellite (its 30W-6/1F craft) has been delayed by launch company SpaceX because of “fairing pressurisation” concerns on the rocket’s nose cone. Hispasat says SpaceX needs to conduct additional testing on the payload fairing’s pressurisation system, which protects the rocket’s cargo as it travels through the earth’s atmosphere. The launch will […]
A bizarre-looking aircraft was rolled out February 26th on a test at the Mojave Air & Space Port. The Stratolaunch project is backed by billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, and undertook some reasonably high-speed – but ground-based – tests. The tests were designed to ensure that the aircraft’s key flight-control surfaces were working nominally. […]