India’s public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati is restructuring its guidelines for the allocation and sale of broadcasting slots on its Doordarshan DTH ‘Free Dish’ platform. The system has an estimated 30 million viewing homes. Doordarshan intends auctioning a batch of channel slots for transmission in MPEG-2, starting on February 11th. This will be the 38th e-Auction […]
The worldwide home audio market realised an increase of 21 per cent in units in 2018, whilst posting revenues of nearly $15 billion, according to year-end estimates from a new Futuresource Consulting report. “Smart speakers continue to attract consumer
Broadband Forum has launched a new project – Broadband Quality Experience Delivered (Broadband QED) – which will be led by Vodafone and Predictable Network Solutions (PNSol). The initiative brings together one of the Broadband Forum’s oldest members with one of its newest to create an “invisible” network that aims to greatly enhance the quality of […]
London-based Avanti Communications has a new sales and customer services executive, Libby Barr, as COO/Customer. Barr will also sit on Avanti’s Executive Committee, effective immediately. Barr joins from BT where she was MD/Customer Care. In a newly created role, Barr will report to Group CEO, Kyle Whitehill, and will be responsible for managing the execution […]
Discovery has announced the promotion of veteran lifestyle programmers Loren Ruch, Betsy Ayala and Lynn Sadofsky within its HGTV and Food Network brands. Ruch is promoted to Group SVP of Production & Development for HGTV based in New York, while Ayala is promoted to SVP of Production & Development for HGTV based in Knoxville, both […]
Wurl, a network for online video distribution and ad monetisation, has launched its AdSpring for Connected TVs solution. Developed to maximise advertising revenue, this cloud-based, turnkey server-side ad insertion (SSAI) solution allows video producers to insert mid-roll ads on linear and VoD programming for distribution to any video service or device, including Connected TVs. “As […]
Astranis Space Technologies, building the next generation of telecommunications satellites to bring the world online, and Pacific Dataport (PDI), a company created for Alaskans by Alaskans to bridge the state’s digital divide, have announced a signed agreement and commercial partnership to construct and launch the first-ever commercial Astranis satellite to dramatically increase bandwidth in Alaska […]
Universal Electronics, a global player in universal control and sensing technologies for the smart home, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to launch a new digital assistant platform for the home built on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform using AI and IoT services. Artificial intelligence is now playing a key role in improving access to […]
Roku has U-turned on its addition of InfoWars – the right-wing conspiracy channel of Alex Jones. YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and others had all banned the channel but Roku had defended its carriage claiming it did not censor legal content. But after facing widespread criticism Roku has responded by dropping the channel. The California-based company […]
The increasing number of pay-TV subscribers is driving DTT to record low levels of consumption in Spain. The latest CNMC report reveals that 76.4 per cent of Spaniards watch TV (an average of 3 hours and 40 minutes per person and day) via DTT, the lowest percentage ever. 20.9 per cent watch TV through cable […]