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Australia: News, Reality most popular TV genres

Australia’s leading TV networks know the importance of the early evening TV news bulletin for setting up their evening programmes and the latest research from Roy Morgan confirms that News is the most watched TV genre in an average week seen by 61 per cent of Australians – the only TV genre seen by more […]

May 13, 2019

Thai TV licences returned

Thailand’s media regulator says that seven of the nation’s DTT broadcasting licences will be returned. Bright TV (Channel 20), Voice TV (Channel 21), MCOT Family (Channel 14), Spring News (Channel 19), Spring 26 or NOW 26 (Channel 26), Channel 3 Family (Channel 13) and Channel 3 SD (Channel 28) are said by the regulator to […]

May 13, 2019By Chris Forrester

Picard heads to Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video will be the exclusive streaming home of the new untitled Star Trek Jean-Luc Picard series in over 200 countries and territories, including the UK and Ireland. Under the multi-year agreement with CBS, each episode will be available on Prime Video within 24 hours of its US premiere. The new Star Trek series […]

May 13, 2019By Nik Roseveare

Maxar/SS-L sees revenues drop

Maxar Technologies, still better known by many as MDA for its ‘Canadarm’ robotic division or Space Systems/Loral for its satellite-building subsidiary, suffered a drop in its latest quarterly revenues to March 31st. Revenues were $504 million ($557.7 million for the same Q1 period last year). The main reason was the industry-wide slump in satellite orders. […]

May 13, 2019By Chris Forrester

Musk shows 60 satellites in rocket fairing

Elon Musk tweeted pictures on May 11th of his first batch of ‘Starlink’ satellites squeezed into its rocket’s fairing ahead of a planned launch on Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on conditions. Musk admitted they were a “tight fit” which is something of an understatement. Musk said that there were plenty of things which could go […]

May 13, 2019By Chris Forrester

Telesat will produce 20-25 satellites per month

Telesat’s Erwin Hudson (VP/Low Earth Orbiting broadband division) speaking at last week’s Washington Satellite 2019 conference, said that the successful bidder for the company’s planned LEO fleet of “quite large” craft would be producing satellites at a rate of 20-25 a month. Hudson told delegates that Ottawa-based Telesat was already working with several antenna suppliers […]

May 13, 2019

BBC tours UK libraries with VR

The BBC is taking its VR experiences out on tour this summer, bringing them to people in a number of libraries across the UK. From now until the end of July, people will be able to visit more than 40 local libraries throughout the UK to try out experiences from the BBC, like Congo VR, […]

May 13, 2019

Zing, &TV, Living Foodz to be digital-only channels in UK

ZEE has announced that three channels, &TV, Zing and Living Foodz will soon be available as digital-only channels on its digital platform ZEE5 in the UK. From June 1st, viewers can access ZEE5 to watch content shows from &TV, Zing and Living Foodz on ZEE5 across a range of devices anytime, anywhere. Viewers will further […]

May 13, 2019

Cellcom Israel adds Netflix

Cellcom Israel is adding Netflix to its Cellcom tv service. The company has announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Netflix, and that it will launch the streaming service within the next few weeks. At the same time, Cellcom will launch a new Android converter that will have a remote control with a […]

May 13, 2019

Cox adds Prime Video app to Contour

Cox Communications has announced that Contour customers in the US now have access to Amazon Prime Video. By simply saying “Prime Video” into their Contour voice remote, customers can watch Amazon Originals like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Hanna, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Guava Island, Homecoming, and The Man in the High Castle. “When it’s time […]

May 13, 2019