O2 UK is closing its smart home service after a disappointing response from customers. The Telefónica group MNO said in it had required “category-leading take-up” of the service in order to invest in it properly. O2 Smart Home allowed customers to control devices through a dedicated management app. The operator will refund all payments made […]
The US Supreme Court has refused an appeal by Dish Network which objected to plans by Florida to implement a ‘satellite tax’ on users of DTH services from Dish and DirecTV. The State law can now be implemented. Cable users already have to pay a 4.92 per cent tax on their subscriptions. However, the satellite […]
NBC Olympics has revealed it will provide more than 50 hours of live virtual reality coverage powered by Intel True VR during the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from PyeongChang, South Korea, to authenticated users with Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Samsung Gear VR, and both Google Cardboard and Google Daydream, with compatible iOS or Android devices […]
To progress its global multichannel strategy, TF1 Group is rebranding its French DTT channels NT1 and HD1 to TFX and TF1 Séries Films respectively, with the new design going live on January 29th and 30th. TFX targets the 15-34 demographic with entertainment shows while TF1 Séries Films is specifically aimed at 25 to 59 year-old […]
Steve Bannon, formerly Donald Trump’s chief strategist, didn’t have the best of days on January 9th. He lost his job as executive chairman of the controversial Breitbart News when its backers pulled their funding, reportedly extremely unhappy at his disparaging comments about the president and his family. Then, pay-radio operator SiriusXM dropped him from their […]
BT Sport will be broadcasting the NBA London Game between the Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics via Facebook, the BT Sport app, on TV or on BTSport.com. The NBA London Game 2018, featuring the Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics, will be available live to fans across the UK on BT Sport’s Facebook page. Coverage of […]
Kazuo Hirai, Sony’s CEO, speaking at CES in Las Vegas, was an able and enthusiastic spokesman for his TV division stressing it was very much here to stay. “We have really shifted our product focus to more high-end [products] with 4K and OLED and from a profits point of view it is now a very […]
Viewers in Italy can watch more of the Olympic Games than ever before following a new partnership between Discovery Communications and RAI for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. The development sees Discovery Communications, the Home of the Olympics in Europe, sublicense to RAI free-to-air audio-visual rights for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 on […]
Intelsat will use Arianespace for a pair of high-profile satellite launches. One of the satellites, the snappily named Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-2) is the so-called ‘Space Tug’ being developed by builders Orbital-ATK and its Space Logistics subsidiary. MEV-2 will be owned by Space Logistics, and its first customer will be Intelsat. Intelsat will use MEV-2 […]
Irdeto has launched its next-generation Piracy Control solution. Providing rapid detection and enforcement for content owners and operators, the online piracy detection and enforcement solution now provides new data-driven web video discovery tools with expert analyst oversight, multi-language site searches, integrated social media and search engine discovery, as well as peer-to-peer (P2P) stream discovery such […]