English Premier League football clubs make up 10 of the top 20 highest revenue generating clubs in world football, according to the 21st edition of the Deloitte Football Money League from the Sports Business Group of Deloitte UK. Published just eight months after the end of the 2016/17 season, the Money League is the most […]
Passengers on airlines travelling over North America on jets equipped with Global Eagle Entertainment’s in-flight equipment will shortly get an even better experience. Global Eagle has tripled its Ku-band capacity on the SES-15 satellite and in particular the craft’s high-throughput beams to enable the delivery of high-speed broadband and a wide range of inflight communications […]
HomePod, the wireless speaker from Apple, arrives in stores from February 9th and is available to order online this from January 26th in the US, UK and Australia. HomePod will arrive in France and Germany in the spring. Apple says its HomePod delivers “stunning audio quality wherever it’s placed — in any room in the […]
DISH has released Hopper Duo in the US, a dual-tuner HD set-top solution for one and two-TV households. Hopper Duo packages the most essential features of DISH’s Hopper 3 for customers with smaller-scale entertainment setups. “The average US home has about two TVs connected to a pay-TV service,” said Niraj Desai vice DISH vice president […]
According to Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, and clearly an avid Worldspace fan, the long-defunct Afristar satellite has been shifted from its nominal position at 20 degrees East “and seems to be raising its orbit, probably for retirement”. McDowell’s “retirement” news for Afristar might be a little premature, as the […]
Jim O’Neill, Principal Analyst at Ooyala, has offered his predictions for the online video industry in 2018. “If you haven’t already buckled your seatbelt for all the changes in the competitive 2018 digital media and entertainment landscape, do so now. Expect to see more OTT services launching, merging and, alas, even folding … Here’s my […]
Spectra Logic has announced that ITV, the UK’s largest commercial television network, has selected two Spectra BlackPearl Converged Storage Systems and two Spectra T950 Tape Libraries to protect and preserve the organisation’s digital assets long-term. The solution enables ITV to send digital assets to dispersed data centre locations on differing media types, to assure the […]
The UK’s Vaudeville Productions have agreed an SVOD worldwide distribution deal with Netflix to screen three Derren Brown specials, kicking off on Feb 27 2018 with DERREN BROWN: THE PUSH, Brown’s controversial experiment in which he exposes the psychological secrets of obedience and social compliance. The other two specials are a televised version of his […]
dotstudioPRO, an online video platform that directly delivers streaming video to multi-platforms, is offering clients the ability to quickly launch channels for the RokuÒ platform through Roku Direct Publisher. “The dotstudioPRO platform offering for Roku Direct Publisher is an ideal opportunity for content owners to capitalise on their existing video libraries,” says Joe Pascual, CEO […]
Video ad serving platform SpotX is further expanding its operations in Europe with the appointment of Merouane Saadi as Director, Platform Services. Based in Belgium, Saadi will build a team to help publishers and broadcasters in Belgium with their programmatic video advertising activities. This will include programmatic techniques such as private marketplaces and Curated Marketplaces […]