BritBox, the streaming service from BBC Worldwide and ITV offering a library British TV in the US, has announced its 2018 programming slate featuring its first original drama series: The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, produced by Omnifilm Entertainment in association with BritBox and World Productions. The series, a follow up to The Bletchley Circle, follows […]
Isle of Media Limited – the public, private partnership launched to market globally the Isle of Man’s media cluster and guide media ventures locating on the Isle of Man – has appointed former Sky and ITV senior executive Michael Wilson as the new Chief Executive Officer. Wilson was until recently the Managing Director of Northern […]
Singapore pay-TV operators Singtel and StarHub have teamed up with Fox Networks Group and the English Premier League to take two Android TV box sellers to court, alleging that they “wilfully infringed” copyright to a significant extent by helping people access pirated content via media streaming boxes, charging them under Section 136 (3A) of the […]
Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) has bought 90 4K video camcorders for its news-gatherers from Panasonic Business. Panasonic initially provided RTS with its AJ-PX 270 Micro P2 units to test along with models from competing brands, to replace their ageing equipment. The field reporters on the RTS editorial team had been using the same camcorders for […]
India’s giant MSO Hathway Digital Cable TV is involved in a carriage fee dispute with Times Networks, and has taken down access to 10 channels across its major distribution system in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Local sources say about 10 million households are directly affected. Hathway is saying that it has an agreement in […]
Freesat, the UK’s subscription-free satellite TV platform, has added Motorsport.tv, the broadcaster of live racing and automotive content, to its News & Sport genre. Available on channel number 253, the addition of Freesat represents Motorsport.tv’s first foray into subscription-free television in the UK, although its predecessor, Motors TV, was briefly available free-to-air firstly as a […]
David Frear, CFO and SEVP at pay-radio operator SiriusXM, says the business now has more than 100 million vehicles on the road, and is targeting 185 million within the next 8 years. “We’re just a cashflow machine,” he said. SiriusXM had earlier reported that it added 1.56 million gross subs last year (net additions of […]
ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP World Tour carried out a live 4K v 1080p HDR test at the Nitto ATP Finals, the season ending finale held in November 2017 at The O2, London. The test was designed to see side-by-side, the two production formats in a live tennis environment, as part of […]
Brazilian airline GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes has announced that they are the launch airline for Gogo TV, an IPTV service powered by in-flight entertainment specialists Gogo’s 2Ku Wi-Fi system installed on all GOL aircraft. The live programming offers six TV channels that can be viewed by passengers on their own devices such as smartphones, tablets […]
Pico Interactive, maker of ultra-portable VR headsets, has teamed up with The Dream VR, a VR technology and multi-device distribution platform, to bring The Dream VR’s premium original content to the Pico Goblin and Pico Neo all-in-one VR headsets. This partnership grows The Dream VR’s distribution channels and adds over 150 channels of video content […]