Videa, an online buying and selling marketplace for automated television advertising, announced the availability of free, transparent, TIP-based API specifications helping to pave the way for programmatic transactions and software integrations as choice and flexibility become increasingly important for today’s buyers and sellers. “Videa strongly believes in a platform agnostic future and is proud to help […]
Blue Peter is launching its first ever music badge in collaboration with BBC Music Day on September 26th with lifelong Blue Peter fan and multi award-winning singer/songwriter, Ed Sheeran, designing the latest iconic shield. Sheeran, who received a Gold badge last year – the show’s highest accolade – has watched Blue Peter since he was […]
Continuing its leadership in next-generation network technologies, CommScope has announced three new breakthroughs that dramatically improve network scale, speed and latency. The advances – in architecture design, interface speed, and edge performance – create unprecedented choice and control for broadband network operators. All will become elements of the company’s Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) and 10G […]
SPI International announces its content production strategy for the coming years, which will include several movies and TV series. The first product of this strategy, the gangster comedy musical Mister Mayfair, will be screened for the first time at MipCOM on Monday October 14th, between 2:30 PM and 3:45 PM in Auditorium K, Palais des […]
Pay-TV subscribers increased by 26 million in 2018 across 138 countries, according to the Pay-TV Databook from analyst firm Digital TV Research. This took the number of pay-TV subscribers beyond 1 billion. “IPTV added 42 million subscribers in 2018 alone to take its total to 257 million,” noted Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV […]
Consumers residing in the US can now sign-up early for Disney+ and be among the first to start streaming on November 12th when the SVoD service makes its debut. Pre-order is now live for the general public through launch on Disneyplus.com with both monthly and annual subscriptions available for purchase at $6.99 (€6.38) and $69.99, […]
Eutelsat, in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing on September 19th, told the FCC that it might rejoin the C-Band Alliance (CBA). Eutelsat dramatically quit the CBA in earlier this month. Lawyers for Eutelsat met with FCC senior officials on September 17th. The CBA is looking to restructure and auction some of its C-band frequencies […]
The World Broadcast Unions (WBU) – in the light of initiatives by the FCC in the US, Ofcom in the UK, and other national administrations concerning potential C-Band Broadcast Spectrum (3.7 to 4.2 MHz) reassignment for 5G – is expressing their concerns over programme collection and distribution and the potential impact on hundreds of millions […]
From September 26th, Spaniards will be able to apply for a portion of the €145 million aid package to readjust their antennas to watch DTT, as the second digital migration prepares to take place in the country. Around 850,000 buildings with communal antennas will be affected due to the DTT migration to release the 700 […]
YouTube has reversed a decision that would have seen many of its popular video-streamers stripped of their ‘verified’ status badge. The proposed change was supposed to make the ID check more rigorous and help remove impersonators. Instead, the change was seen as stripping established YouTubers of their standing and hobbling their chances to prosper on […]