Amazon Prime Video surprised fans by globally releasing the second season of action-thriller Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski, a day early. The announcement was made by Krasinski himself via social channels in which immediately following his posting the series went live on Prime Video. In the second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, after tracking a […]
Animal Planet chief and former Discovery UK and Ireland head Susanna Dinnage is set to leave the broadcast giant after 10 years. Dinnage’s departure comes as Animal Planet restructures under the guidance of Nancy Daniels, chief brand officer for Discovery and factual. Dinnage has headed the brand since 2017, when Animal Planet became the first […]
AMC Networks has announced that Charter Communications will launch its full suite of subscription VoD services as well as AMC Premiere, the company’s premium ad-free version of its AMC channel, to Charter’s Spectrum customers in the US. The launch of AMC Premiere, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now and UMC will bring Spectrum customers access to […]
David Pollack, CEO at Israeli satellite company Spacecom which operates the AMOS fleet of craft, is stepping down. A formal statement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange said that Spacecom and Pollack are in negotiations to end his term as CEO. Recent news has revealed that Spacecom’s major shareholder, telco Bezeq, is planning a shift […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – has achieved another major win when the operator of two giant sources of illegal, unauthorised content, agreed to cease all operations. Prior to this ACE action, Openload and Streamango were massive piracy […]
Giant screen operator IMAX enjoyed revenue increases for its Q3 trading period up 5.2 per cent and helped by a 9 per cent rise in income from its commercial theatre network. “We are on track for our best year ever at the global box office. In China our box office is up 27 per cent […]
Japanese broadcaster WOWOW has trialled a broadcast with MQA audio (Master Quality Authenticated) which is frequently used in streaming audio services. But this is said to be the first time it has been used in a TV broadcast. WOWOW says UK-developed MQA closes the quality gap between TV video and audio. WOWOW used a pre-recorded […]
Current model year OLED TVs from LG Electronics will receive a firmware update starting this week allowing for enhanced gameplay via NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible technology. NVIDIA G-Sync Compatibility will be available on LG’s 2019 OLED TV models E9 (65 and 55 inches), C9 (77, 65 and 55 inches) as well as B9 (65 and 55 […]
3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a provider of software solutions for STB and multiscreen digital entertainment, has been chosen by Uruguayan cable and OTT service provider TCC to help develop its next generation TV service to launch in 2020. TCC’s new service will be powered by 3READY Android TV + Multiscreen, 3SS’ front end and UI […]
Kinetic Content, a Red Arrow Studios company, has been commissioned by Discovery to produce major new unscripted series Man vs. Bear. For thousands of years, Grizzly Bears have stood at the top of the evolutionary food chain with unchallenged dominance. Now for the first time ever, humans will be entering the bears’ territory and take […]