Amagi, a global player in cloud-based technology for TV and OTT broadcasters, has announced that it now supports 250+ channels for its global customers, all using next-generation cloud solutions. Amagi says the milestone catapults it into an elite league of technology partners with large deployments of channels primarily using a public cloud infrastructure. The company […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced that one of the most talked, written and tweeted about TV formats in recent times – Love Island – is coming to France, exclusively for Prime members. Based on a format owned by ITV Studios and Motion Content Group, Love Island, a new and unscripted French Amazon Original series, is […]
Virgin Media has announced a UK partnership with Square Enix in October and provided gamers with the first UK play of Marvel’s Avengers at their stand at EGX. It is now giving its customers and competition winners access to an exclusive gameplay experience of Marvel’s Avengers at B1, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London on November 21st. Virgin […]
BritBox, the SVoD service created by UK PSBs the BBC and ITV, has opened for business, bringing what it describes as the greatest collection of British boxsets with the finest homegrown talent to viewers for £5.99 (€6.95) a month in HD and across multiple devices. BritBox has signed a partnership deal with fellow PSB Channel […]
Spain’s largest telco Movistar has been fined €6 million for discriminatory actions against its rivals when repairing breakdown in its copper and FTTH networks used by third parties. The company took too much time and delayed without justified cause the provision of its services when repairing breakdowns in the networks used by its competitors. The […]
TV consumers who have discovered a new favourite show in the past year are almost twice as likely to watch it online than from a pay-TV set-top box, according to the latest Conquering Content study from Hub Entertainment Research which tracks how TV viewers discover and watch new TV shows. Highlights from the 2019 wave […]
The TV and film production sector is experiencing a period of phenomenal growth, driven by demand for British content from Netflix and Amazon Prime, according to data from Barclays Business Banking. The number of loans taken by SMEs to fund new TV series such as Top Boy, Sex Education and The Crown has increased by […]
According to the BBC, Disney’s SVoD service, Disney+, will launch in the UK in March 2020. During a BBC Breakfast segment unveiling the new Britbox streaming platform, broadcaster Charlie Stayt said that rival service Disney+ would be launching in the UK in March of next year. There has so far been no concrete word on […]
A report in the Science and Technology Daily, which is published by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology says ministries, telcos and tech companies have set up a working group to agree an approach to 6G. China’s three mobile operators launched 5G services this. Mobile Europe reports two organisations will be set up in China […]
US telco giant AT&T has proposed its own plan for a private C-band auction to reallocate satellite spectrum over the US. AT&T is almost certain to be a buyer of some of the released satellite spectrum. The AT&T ‘variation’ on the C-Band Alliance’s well-rehearsed scheme, suggests that the spectrum should be released extremely promptly and […]