Advanced Television

Fincons leads Engagement and Monetization panel at Medientage München 2019

Fincons Group, an IT business consultancy, will be leading a key panel session during Medientage München 2019 entitled ‘Engage and Monetize in a competitive market: Experiences of Innovation Acceleration and Efficiency of Delivery’. The session will be moderated by media journalist Dr. Jörn Krieger. Medientage München is an international event that takes place once a […]

October 3, 2019

Sports Channel Network to show Head On rugby documentary

Sports Channel Network is the first UK platform to broadcast Head On, a new documentary which tackles the issue of head injuries in rugby. The programme is now live on channel 266 on Freeview and YouView. Head injuries in rugby are a major issue in the game at all levels and the increased number of […]

October 3, 2019

DocuBay partners with International Film Festival Shimla

DocuBay, the global membership video-on-demand streaming service by IN10 Media Network, designed to stream premium documentary films, has officially come on board as streaming partner for the 5th edition of International Film Festival Shimla (IFFS). IFFS 2019 will be held at the historic Gaiety Theatre, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, from 4th to 6th October. The festival […]

October 3, 2019

Survey: 88% limit at 2 streaming subscriptions

Research commissioned by OpenX, the independent advertising exchange, in partnership with The Harris Poll, demonstrates the UK’s changing viewing habits as the streaming wars continue to heat up in the months before Christmas. It’s no secret that

October 2, 2019

US Court: FCC can’t decide State neutrality rules

ISPs could face various state internet regulations after a US court ruled that the federal government cannot block states from passing their own net neutrality laws, though the court did while largely upholding the 2017 repeal of rules barring providers from blocking or throttling traffic. US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said […]

October 2, 2019

Spain: UHD TVs popular, but lack of content

Spaniards are increasingly buying Ultra-HD TV sets, but TV channels are conspicuous by their absence. According to SES Astra, around 45 per cent of all TV sets sold in Spain in 12 months from April 2018 to April 2019 were UHD-equipped, putting Spain roughly level with other European countries like France (50.1 per cent), Italy […]

October 2, 2019From David Del Valle in Madrid

Premier League appoints Guardian’s Pemsel

The English Premier League has as appointed Guardian Media Group boss David Pemsel as its new chief executive. Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, said Pemsel had been hired because of his “straightforward style and personal integrity”. Pemsel, 51, has been chief executive of GMG, since July 2015. The company’s main Guardian News & Media […]

October 2, 2019

ITV outlines programme participant protection guidelines

Following media, public and parliamentary scrutiny of its practices in the wake of the suicide of a participant in British tabloid talk show The Jeremy Kyle Show, UK commercial PSB ITV has outlined its guidelines on protecting participants in programmes made for broadcast on ITV, whether made by its own ITV Studios production house or […]

October 2, 2019

Confusion over new Court victory for TiVo

TiVo won another important patent victory over Comcast in a New York court on October 2nd. However, there is confusion over comments – and promises – made in the court. The verdict, made by the US District Court of the Southern District of New York (and concerning patent ref: 8,122,034 and which discloses technology related […]

October 2, 2019By Chris Forrester

StarHub TV completes fibre migration

Singapore multiplay operator StarHub has confirmed the completion of its cable-to-fibre migration for its TV and broadband services. “Over the past 10 months, StarHub assisted hundreds of thousands of customers to migrate from cable services to superior, high-speed fibre services,” advised Johan Buse, Chief of Consumer Business Group, StarHub. “Migrations of this scale are never […]

October 2, 2019By Colin Mann