Advanced Television

GINX Esports TV expands in Finland

GINX Esports TV is expanding its distribution footprint in Europe with the launch of its 24/7 linear channel on Elisa Viihde, a digital entertainment service in Finland. GINX Esports TV is a leading eSports TV network in the world featuring prestigious eSports tournaments together with news, documentary and live entertainment shows produced at its London […]

April 18, 2018

uCast platform powered by Microsoft Azure

uCast a media platform for distribution and monetisation of content globally, has selected Microsoft Azure as an exclusive cloud provider to offer a worldwide cloud infrastructure for next generation media monetisation platform. Azure provides a highly-scalable, global platform leveraging key technologies such as Media Services, Serverless computing, AI, and a host of real-time analytics and […]

April 18, 2018

Travelxp expands 4K content

Travelxp, the 4K global travel channel reaching over 75 million homes, has launched a new food-driven show and added three new destinations to its globally popular ongoing series. Nisha Chothani, Director – Travelxp, said, “I am delighted to announce the launch of a unique new show, Thali – The Great Indian Meal, celebrating different, unusual […]

April 18, 2018

NAGRA and University of Southern California partner on Fandom Genomics for myCinema,

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company and the leading provider of digital content distribution and content protection, and the Entertainment Technology Center, a think tank and research center within the USC School of Cinematic Arts (ETC@USC), have partnered to map Fandom Genomics. This data science study is being conducted to support the launch of myCinema, […]

April 18, 2018

dataxu announces TotalTV for media companies

dataxu, a software provider for marketing professionals, has announced its new solution for media companies, TotalTV. This solution enables owners of high-quality TV content to offer audience-based targeting and unify disparate distribution channels and consumer devices – including connected, addressable, and/or linear TV – into a single source of inventory. TotalTV improves yield for media […]

April 18, 2018

Netflix goes mobile

Netflix’s Q1 numbers show that the OTT operator is growing as fast as ever. It added a net 7.4 million global subs during the quarter, only slightly down on the previous quarter’s record-breaking 8.33 million. US new additions were also healthy at 1.96 million. Overall, this latest quarter year were the second-biggest ever, and the […]

April 17, 2018By Chris Forrester

Netflix: High stakes all round

Netflix has posted more stunning results; growth all round – subscribers, revenue, stock price and, yes, debt. The stock market, indeed business in general, is meant to be a gamble. Netflix personifies this, and its shareholders are backing its great big bet. In the relatively Wild West that is the disrupter territory of OTT, Netflix […]

April 17, 2018

Sky Italia blocks football TV rights tender

Sky Italia has revealed that a Milan court has suspended the tender for national TV rights to the Italian Serie A for the seasons 2018-2021. The satellite broadcaster requested checks on whether the process that awarded the football rights to Spain’s MediaPro was in line with Italian laws. According to Sky Italia, the tender “rises […]

April 17, 2018From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Fox attorney: Sky bid ‘political war’

Gerson Zweifach, group general counsel of 21st Century Fox, has suggested that certain UK politicians have a political agenda in respect of the company’s bid to acquire the 61 per cent of Sky it does not already own, accusing them of seeking to enlist regulators in a political war. Writing an opinion piece in the […]

April 17, 2018By Colin Mann

UHD “two years behind” in US

Ultra-HD is making significant progress around the world (channel count up 27 per cent) in particular over the past six months, according to data from Eutelsat presented at last week’s MIPTV programming market in Cannes. Claudia Vaccarone (Eutelsat’s Director of Global Market Research) told delegates that Eutelsat was carrying about 33 per cent of the […]

April 17, 2018By Chris Forrester