New Zealand digital service Freeview has just launched its first Live TV streaming platform, the latest in a range of recent Freeview innovations. In collaboration with Dish TV and Google, the first Freeview streaming device – the Dish TV SmartVU X – is now available. The Freeview streaming device provides Kiwis access to live TV […]
Mirada, a leading provider of cutting-edge products and services for Digital TV Operators and Broadcasters, is delighted to announce a new contract win for its Iris multiscreen solution with Skytel, one of the leading mobile and IPTV service providers in Mongolia, for their subsidiary SkyMedia. Skytel has chosen Mirada’s Iris multiscreen technology to power their […]
Malaysian pay-TV operator Astro is undertaking a Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) that will allow the Group to further simplify the organisation, enhance operational efficiency and reduce annual operating expenses in what it describes as a “challenging overall economic landscape”. In announcing the move, Astro notes that the media and entertainment industry is currently operating in […]
Americans are excited about the future of 5G-enabled entertainment and are willing to pay more, but there is still much the industry needs to do to create anticipation and close the 5G knowledge gap, according to a new study from Intel. The latest
German free-to-air broadcasters ARD and ZDF have expanded their existing partnerships with electric street racing series Formula E, showing more live races in season five across their networks. With the start of the new season only days away, fans across Germany will now have greater access and live viewing opportunities – with ZDF providing coverage […]
UK-based NSSL Global has bought SES’s ‘Station 711’ business unit, which was part of the SES-owned MX1 play-out and content management division. Station 711 itself is a fully-fledged Inmarsat Tier 1 Distribution Partner and Value-Added Reseller for Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband and Global Xpress satellite operations. Station 711 has been servicing maritime customers for the last twenty […]
Mediaset’s Spanish business (Mediaset España Comunicación) is of the view that traditional broadcast TV is far from dead in Spain. A report from investment bank Berenberg on Mediaset Spain, following the company’s presentation at the bank’s European Conference, stressed that the broadcaster’s key message was that, while TV may not be growing, it is certainly […]
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) and its channels are back on the TataSky DTH portfolio of channels. Local reports says that despite the two month blackout of Sony’s channels the carriage dispute with TataSky has been mutually resolved, although the financial terms between the two were not revealed. Sky’s channels went dark on Oct 1st […]
More than £20 million (€22.5m) is being pumped into the UK’s thriving creative industries to help inspire and attract new talent, scale up existing businesses, boost skills and provide education. The package of support, announced by Creative Industries Minister Margot James during a visit to Dudley Technical College in the West Midlands, will help to […]
Maxar Technologies, which owns the Space Systems-Loral satellite facility in Palo Alto, in Silicon Valley, California, has sold one of its key buildings at the site for $70 million. The building, complete with some 4.5 acres of land, represents just 14 per cent of the Palo Alto complex of buildings. Maxar/SS-L owns another 24 acres […]