beIN Media Group’s CEO, Yousef Al-Obaidly, has warned sports rights-holders, broadcasters and sponsors that “the glorious media rights bubble is about to burst [because] piracy has spread to every corner of the globe and every part of society”. Al-Obaidly, speaking at the Sport Business Summit in London, said that beIN Sports had been very badly […]
3Lettronica Industriale and Prima TV have teamed up to jointly manage a network of nearly 1,000 DTT transmitters in Italy. The two partners will offer interested broadcasters the possibility of transmitting their TV channels in the new DVB-T2 standard. Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development has already given its approval and assigned to the consortium one […]
Comcast’s NBCUniversal is naming new management roles as streaming becomes more of a priority. Comcast executive Matt Strauss is moving over to NBCU as chairman of Peacock. Strauss will also oversee the company’s digital enterprises and report to NBCU CEO Steve Burke. Veteran Bonnie Hammer, who had been overseeing the development of Peacock, was named […]
Orange France will start testing in Châtillon and Rennes following ARCEP’s approval to assign experimentation frequencies in the 26 GHz band. For Orange, this call for projects is an opportunity to assess, in an open innovation way, the performances of these new frequency bands as well as the technical and environmental conditions in which those […]
New satellites often slip with their launch dates a month or two and such delays are more usually because of the availability – or non-availability – of their rocket launch. However, Eutelsat’s latest satellite, its Eutelsat ‘Quantum’ craft is reportedly delayed significantly to later next year, and well over a year later than planned. Originally […]
South Africa’s government was due to make a special payment to the nation’s SABC public broadcaster on October 7th. The initial payment was expected to be a massive Rand 2.1 billion (about €126bn) in order to allay anxieties from staff and suppliers. There will be another R1.1 billion paid when SABC meets three remaining key […]
Oregan Networks, a British software company specialising in advanced pay-TV solutions, has announced its acquisition of the Zenterio assets, and assimilation of its engineering and delivery teams located in Linköping, Sweden and Guadalajara, Mexico. Oregan says the purchase boosts its ability to scale its multiscreen platform innovation and project delivery capabilities, as well as enabling […]
More information has emerged of a recent meeting between Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer and the Chairman and two Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and at which Belmer told Chairman Ajit Pai that Eutelsat was in favour of freeing up a slightly higher portion of C-band spectrum (around 25 per cent) and would consider […]
ESPN and Quibi have reached an agreement for daily sports programming on the mobile-first platform when it launches in April 2020. As part of the new deal, ESPN will be the exclusive US multi-sport content provider for Quibi’s curated news and information programming, Daily Essentials. The new ESPN show, available only on Quibi, will feature […]
Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE, operator of La 1 and La 2, among other channels, is set to launch two new HD channels in January 2020: Canal 24 Horas HD (a news channel) and TVE Internacional HD. The broadcaster called a public tender to award the technical contract. Telefónica is the most likely candidate to win […]