Channel 4 has announced that Pete Andrews will be its new Head of Sport. Andrews is a Royal Television Society award winner and has more than 20 years’ experience of working in sports production covering top sporting events. He will lead on all of Channel 4’s sports coverage which includes the 2020 Summer Paralympics from […]
Edgeware is to acquire Swedish subtitling expert Cavena Image Products. The deal broadens Edgeware’s offering to broadcasters and content owners by adding subtitling automation to its origin solution. Cavena has been supplying solutions to the broadcasting market for over 10 years and its customers include Sky, Canal+ and HBO Asia. Integrating subtitling technology into Edgeware’s […]
TV series are still a significant audience booster worldwide, especially during prime time, according to the latest edition of the Scripted Series Report by Eurodata TV Worldwide, which analysed the schedules of over 100 channels in 12 countries. “The dynamism of the series market is illustrated in particular by the significant proportion of new launches […]
ENENSYS, a designer and manufacturer of digital video delivery technologies, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Expway, a provider of LTE Broadcast infrastructure software and solutions. The acquisition strengthens ENENSYS and Expway’s ability to deploy its LTE Broadcast technology, while joining efforts to aggressively build and market the 5G broadcast solutions. Based in […]
Comscore, a currency for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, has announced a multi-year agreement with Nexstar Media Group. Comscore will now serve as a currency and measurement provider to all Nexstar markets, including the markets Nexstar acquired from Media General. As part of this expanded partnership, Comscore will deliver a new local cross-platform […]
The My-HD pay-TV platform in the MENA region will carry SPI International’s most popular channels for another three years after the companies extended their partnership. “SPI International and My-HD have been working together for three years and it is my pleasure to announce that we have renewed our channel distribution partnership in the MENA region […]
Spain’s Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), the National Commission of Markets and Competition, will sanction commercial broadcasters Mediaset and Atresmedia for an abuse of their dominant position, according to business daily El Economista. The fine can be up to 10 per cent of the sales of each of the two groups […]
Synamedia – which Sky acquired a stake in this week – has unveiled new artificial intelligence software at CES 2019, claiming it could bring an end to password sharing in the streaming industry. The system uses machine learning to analyse account activity and recognise unusual patterns, such as account details being used in two locations […]
The football TV war and the proliferation of low-cost packages is seeing Vodafone Spain drastically cut staff. The company has announced a redundancy plan that will affect 1,200 out of its total workforce in Spain of 5,000. Vodafone states that the layoffs, to take effect in February and March, are the result of the obligation to […]
Canal+ has denied that it plans to revamp its CanalPlay SVoD service, closed in the summer of 2018 after a dramatic loss of subscribers. In response to a story published by financial daily Les Echos, Canal+ chairman and CEO Maxime Saada tweeted January 10th: “There won’t be any revival of CanalPlay, but numerous new ideas […]