Advanced Television

BBC to stream MLB London Series

The meeting between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox at London Stadium will be shown live on the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website. The games on June 29th and 30th are part of a two-year deal signed by Major League Baseball (MLB) and BBC Sport to stream the London Series in the […]

May 3, 2019

DISH Q1 revenue and subs dip

DISH Network, the US pay-TV broadcaster, has reported revenue totalling $3.19 billion for the quarter ending March 31st 2019, compared to $3.46 billion for the same period in 2018. Net income attributable to DISH Network totalled $340 million for the quarter, compared to net income of $368 million from the year-ago quarter. The company closed […]

May 3, 2019

Line Of Duty 2019’s most-watched programme

Episode one of police drama Line Of Duty series five is the most-watched programme on British television this year with an audience of 13.2 million viewers, 28-day four-screen data has revealed. The first four episodes have attracted larger audiences than any other programme on UK television this year, averaging 10.6 million viewers in seven-day four-screen consolidated […]

May 3, 2019

Thailand offers compensation to digital broadcasters

Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) on May 2nd outlined the regulations as to how it will compensate digital TV licence holders who want to return the licences to the country’s broadcasting watchdog. The NBTC will further expand its intentions on May 7th. In essence, broadcasters – some of whom have lost money on […]

May 3, 2019By Chris Forrester

Qualcomm outlines Apple licensing deal

Chipset giant Qualcomm, which last week said it had settled its long-standing dispute with Apple, further explained how the two players would be working in the future. Qualcomm’s CEO Steve Mollenkopf, speaking to analysts following the company’s Q2 results, said the agreement covered two long-term elements: “A global patent licence agreement and a multi-year chipset […]

May 3, 2019By Chris Forrester

SF Studios takes majority stake in FLX

SF Studios has acquired a majority share of the production company FLX, one of the most successful production companies in Sweden. In addition to recently released Netflix series Quicksand (pictured), FLX has produced TV Drama such as Bonus Family and box office hits like The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared and […]

May 3, 2019

Telesat Q1 revenues down 4%

Telesat has announced its financial results for the three-month period ended March 31st 2019. The Canadian satellite comms company reported consolidated revenues of C$222 million (€147.8m), a decrease of 4 per cent compared to the same period in 2018. The company said the decrease was primarily due to a decrease in short-term services provided to […]

May 3, 2019

C4 to air Rugby World Cup warm-ups

Channel 4 will broadcast live coverage of Grand Slam winners Wales when they take on England and Ireland this August. The three nations will face each other at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium as part of their preparation for the Rugby World Cup which begins on September 20th. The reigning Six Nations Champions play England on August […]

May 3, 2019

Inmarsat approves GetSAT Terminal for Global Xpress

GetSAT, a manufacturer of portable terminals that offer high data-rate communications for ground, air and maritime applications, and Inmarsat, the global player in global, mobile satellite communications, have announced that Inmarsat has type approved GetSAT’s MilliSAT-H-GX and MilliSAT-W-GX for use on its Global Xpress service. These new terminals are said to be the lightest and […]

May 3, 2019

Linius unveils self-service video widget

Linius Technologies Limited – the cloud-based solution that creates hyper-personalized video experiences with data-driven video assembly – has launched a self-service embeddable widget in partnership with systems integrator, Hemisphere. The Widget Suite application enables any organization to empower viewers to search the data within its video content, from across any number of sources, and assemble […]

May 3, 2019