BBC Studios has announced a deal with Orient International that will see the Asia premiere of Oceans: Our Blue Planet, a Giant Screen film version of Blue Planet II, in China. This deal includes the exclusive distribution rights to both 2D Dome and 3D Giant Screen formats of the film in China. The Asia premiere […]
Retro Music TV has begun programmatic sales of ad space on HbbTV in Czech Republic. Purchases and sales can be made via the digital ad network R2B2 Multiscreen. So now there is another TV channel where advertisers can place HbbTV ads using any of the switch-in ad formats, including TV Banners, Push 2 Play, XXL […]
Comcast and Netflix have agreed an expansion of their partnership that will provide Comcast the ability to include a Netflix subscription in new and existing Xfinity packages. In November 2016, Comcast launched Netflix on the X1 platform, offering customers a fully-integrated entertainment experience featuring voice control and seamless access to the Netflix service. Netflix has […]
Premier motor sport category Formula 1 will launch F1 TV in May 2018, ahead of the Formula 1 2018 Gran Premio De España. Until that time, Formula 1 will continue to run a closed beta version of the service to a small subset of fans for viewing and testing during the upcoming Formula 1 2018 […]
Viacom Italia closed 2017 with total revenues of €67.9 million (+20.6% on 2016) and profits of €4.7 million (€2.5 million in 2016). Contributing to the positive result were the broadcaster’s free-to-air channels, and Paramount Channel in particular, distributed via DTT in Italy, reports daily Italia Oggi. In fact, during the financial year 2017 (which ended […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has published the final outcome of its auction to release more airwaves for 4G mobile and future 5G services. On April 5th, Ofcom announced which companies had won the right to use spectrum in two bands through the ‘principal’ stage of the auction, and the amounts they would pay. It has […]
Paul Gray, Research Director at IHS Markit, expects modest global sales of 8K displays initially, and with China taking the largest portion of potential interest. He says next year, despite the launch of 8K transmissions this coming December from Japan’s NHK public broadcaster, to be less than 1 million units globally. By 2020, and perhaps
Australian cricket fans will have access to more cricket coverage than ever following what is described as a “landmark” partnership with FOX SPORTS and Seven West Media, announced by the sport’s governing body Cricket Australia (CA). The deal sees long-time broadcaster Channel 9 lose the coverage rights. The new six-year broadcast and digital partnership, which […]
Airbus has flown its largest-ever all-electric satellite to Cape Canaveral in readiness for launch by a SpaceX rocket. SES-12 is the largest and most powerful all electric satellite ever produced, says Airbus. It is based on its Eurostar platform in its E3000e variant, which uses electric propulsion for orbit raising. The related mass saving enables […]
Digital content distribution and content protection specialist NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company, has unveiled myCinema, a service designed to transform the cinema experience, and plans to introduce the initiative at CinemaCon 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 23rd-26th, 2018. “myCinema will drive the digital transformation of the cinema experience,” declared André Kudelski, Chairman of the […]