Reports out of India suggest that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has held talks with India’s fast-growing 4G cellular network operator Reliance Jio. The reports suggest that Netflix is targeting a potential 100 million subscribers in India, and that Reliance Jio’s existing 160+ million subscribers could fast-track that ambition. A deal has not been done, but […]
John-Paul Hemingway has been appointed as CEO of SES Networks with immediate effect, succeeding Steve Collar who officially takes on his new position as President & CEO of SES. In his new function, Hemingway will join the Executive Committee of SES which then comprises Steve Collar (President & CEO), Andrew Browne (Chief Financial Officer), Ferdinand […]
According to Dataxis estimates, Fox Sports and ESPN respectively reach a global penetration of 34 per cent and 31 per cent over the total number of TV households in Latin America for 2017. In all the countries studied, except in Brazil and Venezuela, ESPN and Fox Sports have the highest penetration rates among all sport […]
Star India has won India International and Domestic media rights for the period from April 15th, 2018 until March 31st, 2023 following an online auction process that lasted three days. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI had invited bids for Global Television Rights plus Rest of the World Digital Rights Package Indian […]
New consumer research from Parks Associates shows that US broadband households report their average monthly expenditure on video entertainment outside of a pay-TV subscription has dropped from $29 in the past two years to $23 in the last half of 2017. The research firm notes spending on Internet video has held steady at roughly $9 […]
The EBU, in close collaboration with network equipment vendors ATEME and NEVION, has updated its royalty-free and interoperable stream protection standard (BISS) with a conditional access extension, BISS-CA, which enables real-time entitlement management for content streams over any network. The BISS-CA mode (EBU Tech3292s1) is based on state-of-the-art symmetric AES and asymmetric RSA cryptography and […]
The much-delayed launch of Avanti Communications’ Hylas 4 satellite took place under flawless conditions at 21.34 GMT on April 5th aboard an Arianespace rocket. A Japanese satellite (JSAT’s Superbird-8) was also carried aloft in the launch, the third of the year for Arianspace. There were pre-launch anxieties because the previous Ariane flight had not performed […]
A report from Northern Sky Research (NSR) pointedly asks where is the flow of business that was expected in terms of ‘connected vehicles’. Specifically addressing its study to the prospects for valuable flat-plate antennas, the devices needed to connect up vehicles to satellite-delivered services, it admits that business is “elusive, and still many years away […]
Content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS has launched an ASiD Watermarking Partner Programme to accelerate the adoption of its widely-used video watermarking service for premium sports and entertainment providers. The first technology partners to join the programme are OTT video player solution providers VisualOn, NexPlayer and Bitmovin. “With the growing menace of streaming piracy, […]
BuyDRM, a specialist in Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Content Security Services, has announced that the UK’s BBC has deployed the KeyOS MultiKey DRM service as part of its BBC iPlayer App. As part of BuyDRM’s ‘Widevine Everywhere’ programme, this new offering powers the BBC iPlayer app which allows users to download or view offline […]