Globecomm, a global connectivity and managed services provider, has been awarded a five-year contract by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in support of the Middle East Broadcasting Network (MBN). Globecomm will provide satellite transponder, teleport, and terrestrial fiber services for transmitting MBN’s Alhurra TV HD and SD video and Radio Sawa audio content to […]
Insys Video Technologies has announced that the company’s comprehensive InsysPLAY platform was chosen by Austrian television provider ORS to power a significantly enhanced OTT video service for ORS subsidiary simpliTV. The InsysPLAY platform provides simpliTV viewers with a richer, distinctive user experience and expanded selection of content across a broader range of consumer devices, all […]
The Royal Television Society today announced that Bob Bakish, Chief Executive Officer of Viacom Inc., will deliver the International Keynote at the RTS London Conference 2018 on Tuesday 18 September 2018 at Kings Place. As leader of one of the world’s largest media and entertainment companies, Bakish will share his views on global media trends, […]
Reports suggest that US media giant Comcast is planning an all-cash bid of $60 billion (€50bn) for most of 21st Century Fox’s assets, dependent on whether the US administration approves AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. Any such deal would also see Comcast acquire 100 per cent of Sky. Comcast made a $31 billion bid for […]
The BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are reportedly in talks to create a joint streaming service to take on the increasing dominance that Netflix and Amazon Prime Video hold in the UK. The early-stage talks, which
Far from being seen as a replacement for pay-TV, both multichannel and non-multichannel TV households in Europe are adopting online SVoD services, primarily as supplemental video entertainment, according to findings from Kagan, the TMT research arm of S&P Global Market Intelligence. According to analyst Keith Nissen, while a number of cord cutters are adopting SVoD, […]
Spanish TV group Mediapro is reportedly planning to pull out of buying football TV rights after the forthcoming tender for La Liga rights 2020-2023. The acquisition of football TV rights as an intermediary to resell them in the market is causing the group an increasing amoount of problems with the country’s telco operators. They have […]
Research from consulting firm Parks Associates shows that 27 per cent of US pay-TV households agree that sports programming is the primary reason they subscribe to their pay-TV service, although OTT streaming options are having an impact. “While broadcast and pay-TV remain
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, speaking at last week’s Series Mania festival and conference in Lille, France, said that he will spend €1 billion this year in boosting European production and to start meeting the planned European 30 per cent quota on local content output. The EU ruling come in three years from now. Hastings told […]
DTT in Spain is increasingly losing audience numbers to pay-TV. In 2017, DTT had an average audience share of 77.1 per cent, down 2 per cent on one year earlier. Last month, its reach fell even more to 75.9 per cent. By contrast, pay-TV, with 6.6 million subscribers, had an average audience share of 22.3 […]