Disney CEO Bob Iger has quit Apple’s board, with a filing revealing he did so last week on the same day that the company unveiled the launch date and pricing for Apple TV+. Iger told The Hollywood Reporter: “I have the utmost respect for Tim Cook, his team at Apple and for my fellow board […]
Vodafone Spain more than tripled its losses in its last fiscal year, April 2018-March 2019, to €601 million from €180 million in the previous year. Total revenues fell to €4.6 billion, a 5.5 per cent decrease, with its EBITDA down €533 million, double the previous year. According to the company, these results are due to […]
UK multiplay telco BT took the opportunity of its IBC presence to demonstrate one of the world’s first live 8K sports broadcasts – an hour long broadcast into its outdoor stand. Working with a range of established partners, BT Sport and BT’s Media & Broadcast division delivered an hour-long, live broadcast in 8K, showcasing the […]
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, which is now transmitting 12 hours a day of 8K content on its satellite BS service, is working hard to make that content available to viewers at home. NHK sources speaking at IBC in Amsterdam said the major problem they had to overcome was that of digital compression. NHK’s ‘Super Hi-Vision’ […]
Netflix entered South Korea in January 2016 with few established partnerships and minimal local content. The streaming giant has since devoted significant investment to creating award-winning local original content that has disrupted the South Korean media ecosystem, reports Kagan, a research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence The parents of Pooq and Oksusu have decided […]
South Africa’s media regulator ICASA wants certain key sporting events to be classified as of significant public interest and made available to free-to-air broadcasters. However, the sporting rights-holders are not happy, arguing that the proposals extend beyond the current situation – where the national teams are involved – to non-international league games and perhaps to […]
The National Football League (NFL) and Facebook have announced a multi-year partnership extension which will see more NFL video content streamed globally through Facebook Watch. The move will expand on existing arrangements between the two which began in 2017. The NFL will continue distributing recaps from all 256 regular season games, as well as playoff […]
A new app that automatically cancels subscriptions at the end of the free trial period has launched in the UK. The app, called Free Trial Surfing was developed by Josh Browder, who once developed an algorithm to fight unfair parking fines. The app is not linked to a customer’s bank account or credit card, but […]
Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has announced that ViewMedia, the new commercial name of Viewsat the UK-based media content distributor, will launch a new digital broadcast platform on the AMOS-17 communication satellite located at the 17°E orbital position above Africa. ViewMedia’s platform on AMOS-17’s KU-Band frequency will provide DVBS-2 broadcast services to West […]
MediaKind, a global media technology player, has been selected by Síminn, the Icelandic broadcaster, to protect and deliver its live HD and UHD broadcasts of football matches from the English Premier League to fans across Iceland. The deployment will include MK RX1, a multi-codec, multi-service professional decoder that is designed to maintain the integrity of […]