Findings from research firm Roy Morgan shows that Google Chromecast is Australia’s most popular digital television service, with 12.1 per cent owning the service. Uptake has more than doubled over the past three years. The proportion of Australians who own digital television services has shown significant growth across all brands in the past three years. […]
Broadcaster, writer and campaigner, June Sarpong MBE has been appointed as the BBC’s Director of Creative Diversity. The BBC says Sarpong will lead a renewed drive to further transform and modernise the BBC and its culture. She will work to increase representation and ensure that BBC content reflects the public it serves. She will take […]
A company registered in the Cayman Islands is again trying to get a satellite launched despite alleged links with backers from China. Global-IP (not to be confused with Global IP Solutions) wants to finance and build a satellite to provide sub-Saharan Africa with 150 Gb/s broadband. But the company has some history behind it. In […]
The BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, has announced that its BFI Player subscription service is now available to UK customers through Apple TV channels on the Apple TV app across iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and select Samsung smart TVs. Customers can subscribe directly to the service on the Apple TV app for £4.99 […]
International Launch Services (ILS) which handles the commercial side of the Russian Proton rocket sales activity, is to launch the delayed two-satellite mission for Eutelsat and Northrop Grumman on October 9th, weather permitting. The initial launch was planned for September 30th but delayed because of an electrical glitch. Eutelsat’s 5 WB craft is one ‘passenger’ […]
Amazon has confirmed that I Bought The Farm [working title] – an eight part series following The Grand Tour presenter Jeremy Clarkson as he attempts to run his very own 1000-acre working farm in the heart of the British countryside – is in production. Beginning in Autumn 2019 and filmed over the course of one […]
Looper Insights, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) VoD optimisation firm for film and television, has entered into an annual deal with A+E Networks, under which Looper will provide TVoD/EST management and optimisation services to the global media and entertainment company. Under the deal, A+E Networks is using Looper Insights’ tools to track, manage and optimise the sale […]
Netflix has ordered Human Resources, a new workplace comedy set in the world of the monsters from its Emmy nominated animated series Big Mouth. Big Mouth creators Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett signed an overall deal with Netflix back in June under their newly formed animation production company, Brutus Pink. In […]
FC Barcelona and Rakuten TV have announced the launch of Matchday – Inside FC Barcelona, an official FC Barcelona TV documentary series that follows the club through its 2018-2019 season, offering behind-the-scenes insights into what makes Barça “more than a club.” Matchday – Inside FC Barcelona is a creation of Barça Studios, FC Barcelona’s own […]
Connected TV (CTV) has established itself as a brand building essential that is clearly here to stay. It now accounts for a full 50 per cent of all video ad impressions – twice that of mobile – according to the latest Video Benchmarks report from Extreme Reach (ER), the asset management solution for TV