Napster and Super Hi-Fi are now working together to allow music streaming services and leading consumer companies to easily create the next generation of personalized and branded music. The two pioneers in music technology allow companies across a variety of industries, where music is a critical component of their business offerings, to add a critical […]
USA Network has announced the hit docuseries, MIZ & MRS is set to return for Season 2 on January 29th 2020 at 10/9c, immediately following NXT. The series gives an exclusive glimpse into the A-List lifestyle of married WWE Superstars The Miz and Maryse. This hilarious ‘It’ family is moving from their quiet life in […]
The Israel Audience Research Board (IARB) has appointed Kantar to operate Israel’s TV trading currency for the next seven years, with the option of an extension until 2030. The existing TV audience measurement service will also be expanded to provide extended TV audience measurement from next year. The new service is based on a representative […]
On the heels of its Premier League streaming success, Amazon has acquired the rights to show selected matches from the Champions League to its subscribers in Germany, as the online giant continues to make strides into sports broadcasting in Europe. Amazon Prime Video will show ‘first-pick’ matches on Tuesday evenings of each game-week from the […]
Deloitte has revealed its predictions for the TMT sector in 2020. Among the predictions: Revenues from AVoD will break £500 million in the UK in 2020 Deloitte predicts that revenues from advertising supported video on demand (AVoD) will reach £500 million (€594.6m) in the UK in 2020, representing 10 per cent of all television advertising […]
Canal+ Group and beIN Sports are in talks with a view to an exclusive distribution and sublicensing deal in France. Under the proposed agreement, Canal+ would offer all beIN Sports premium sports channels and content within its Canal+ offers, while also being the exclusive distributor of beIN Sports to third-party providers across all platforms in […]
Analyst Roger Rusch, CEO at TelAstra, says in a report that the commercial satellite industry is facing 6 different and worrying crises. Rusch suggests that terrestrial growth from fibre and wireless is threatening future growth of the satellite sector, and this is his Crises Number 1. “The wireless and fibre providers are more agile at […]
As 2019 comes to a close, research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics’ thoughts are turning towards the coming year. In a new report – Media & Entertainment Predictions for 2020 – Strategy Analytics Television & Media Strategies (TMS) service highlights the trends and events that will shape the media & entertainment landscape in 2020. “As […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has announced that its shift to a new operating model has led to a reduction in its overall workforce. The personnel savings are expected to be approximately SEK 250 million (€23.6m), with the majority impacting in 2020. This will enable NENT Group to offset USD currency […]
Would-be mega constellation operator OneWeb is to launch its first major batch of satellites at the end of January. OneWeb will use a Russian Soyuz-2.1 rocket, but managed by Arianespace, to take 34 of its satellites into space from the cosmodrome at Baikonur in Kazakhstan on January 30th subject to last minute weather problems. Russian […]