Virgin Media has renewed its sponsorship of Southampton Football Club until the end of the 2021/22 season. From next season, Virgin Media will be the sleeve sponsor of the first team shirt. It will also appear on the sleeve of Southampton’s under 18 and 23 men’s sides. As an extension to its sponsorship, Virgin Media […]
As part of the launch of Sunrise TV neo, Stoneroos is very proud to bring the tvOS application with Single Sign-on operator login to the Swiss market. Stoneroos is fully responsible for the design and development of the tvOS app, which is connected to the Huawei Envision platform. Sunrise TV neo is the modern way […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset is close to buying national DTT channels 45 and 55, currently used by Sony Pictures Television for its Pop and Cine Sony channels. According to daily Il Sole 24 Ore, the negotiations are in the final stages and if the deal goes through it would mean that Sony would no longer […]
Joyn, a joint venture of ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery, will launch a new streaming service in Germany offering live streams from over 50 TV channels. Additionally, the service will feature an extensive VoD catalogue of original series, shows, exclusive previews and local content. A range of content will be available seven days before TV broadcast and […]
The Walt Disney Company put more than $400 million (€356.2m) cash into Vice, but in investor filings this week Disney revealed it no longer thinks it will ever get any return on the digital publisher — a company that was supposedly worth $5.7 billion. Vice is still worth something to some; last week, a group […]
Spain’s broadcasting agency Cellnex is seeking an alliance with Vodafone and Orange and their shared networks. Cellnex has offered to manage the operators’ towers and networks to “monetise” the shared networks and boost the 5G take-up. Tobías Martínez, CEO of Cellnex, said that it would be the “necessary partner” for them to avoid duplication (in […]
UK telco BT has raised its build targets for Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) from 3 million to 4 million premises passed by March 2021, with the ambition increased from 10 million to 15 million by the mid-2020s, subject to favourable regulatory conditions and policy decisions. The news came as BT announced its results for […]
Ofcom has launched a formal investigation into an allegation that China Global Television Network (CGTN), the international news channel of China Central Television (CCTV), aired a confession forced from a British private investigator while imprisoned in China. Ofcom said it would probe whether CGTN had broken the UK broadcasting code. In the UK, CGTN airs […]
The Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant platforms will take an almost equal share of the global smart speaker market this year, according to the latest forecast from Strategy Analytics. Amazon Alexa had a 37.7 per cent share of sales in 2018, but this will decline to 31.7 per cent in 2019, while Google Assistant’s share […]
Sky has invested in You.i TV, a specialist in software tools for addressing cross-platform app development. The investment is part of the larger You.i TV Series C funding announced in November 2018, and displays Sky’s commitment to backing innovative companies that help connect consumers to content they want to watch, wherever they want to watch […]