Channel 4 has revealed it will be bringing coverage of the World Chase Tag to its viewers. The 2019 World Chase Tag Championships will be held in London later this month and Channel 4 will broadcast highlights of the event. The sport is based on the simple playground game of ‘tag’ but its reinvention has […]
SK Telecom has exceeded the 1 million 5G subscriber mark – and claims to be the first mobile operator in the world to achieve the feat. The milestone was achieved on August 21st and sees the South Korean telco’s 5G subscribers now take up more than 3.5 per cent of its total subscriber base of […]
Italian broadcasting giant Mediaset has been looking to merge with its Spanish arm, Mediaset Espana. The plan was that the merger would be a step forward in its wish to create a European media giant to rival the likes of Netflix. That merger now looks unlikely. Shareholder investor adviser ISS is telling stock-holders in the […]
Amazon has launched summer sale which features savings on its Echo and Fire TV devices. The online giant’s sales event is being classed its biggest ever, with nine solid days of price cuts. As per usual, all of Amazon’s own-brand devices are also included in the price cuts, with discounts on Echo models, the Fire […]
YouTube is in the process of remedying a site error after its algorithm falsely identified personal videos of robot battles – similar to the likes of those seen in BBC show Robot Wars – as ‘animal cruelty’ and ‘cock fighting’. Channels posting robot combat videos saw their content removed and received a notice from YouTube […]
Eminem’s publisher, Eight Mile Style, is suing music streaming giant Spotify. It claims the Spotify has failed to correctly copyright the popular rapper’s work. Eminem – real name Marshall Bruce Mathers – has never been properly paid for songs “streamed on Spotify billions of times”, court papers say. And Spotify, which has yet to respond […]
Eurofins Digital Testing, a global player in end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services, will offer software solutions to help studios, post-production companies, broadcasters and distributors adopt the Interoperable Mastering Format (IMF), aimed at streamlining associated workflows and reducing costs. IMF is a Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) standard for providing a […]
NFL Network has renewed its agreement with Sony Interactive Entertainment for national US distribution of NFL Network and NFL RedZone programming services on PlayStation Vue, the live streaming TV service. PlayStation Vue subscribers receiving NFL Network and NFL RedZone will also continue to have access to the services through NFL.com and the NFL and NFL […]
Sky Arts will broadcast live from this year’s The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival bringing viewers all the news and coverage from the famous literary event. A Sky original series, Cheltenham Literature Festival Live, will air daily from October 7th to 13th between 7pm-10pm. The series will also be available on streaming […]
Switch Media, a specialist in online video technology, has launched VOD2Live, a new solution that enables broadcasters and content owners to launch custom dynamic live linear channels in minutes. Using a content owners existing library of VoD assets, VOD2Live creates a broadcast-equivalent channel with no need for playout software, live video encoding or to re-ingest […]