Spain’s public broadcaster has inadvertently carried an interview with the exiled Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont after hackers broke into its online news stream with an interview from Russia’s state-backed RT network. The hack meant Spanish TV’s +24 channel showed RT’s interview between Puigdemont and the former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa. RT’s boss, Margarita Simonyan, […]
Altice Portugal has agreed to start the migration process of the DTT network on February 7th 2020 to the sub-700 MHz band, thus accepting the demand of the National Communications Authority (Anacom). However, the owner of DTT network operator Meo maintains July 24th as the end of the migration period and rejects “any non-compliance” with […]
Médiamétrie, the specialist in measuring media usage, has released its Yearly Sport Key Facts 2019 report. Yassine Berhoun, Glance’s Sports Director, commented: “In an odd-numbered year when there are no major sporting event apart from the Rugby World Cup, once again, sport has proven to be most capable genre at bringing millions of viewers around […]
A 2018 episode of Celebrity Big Brother was the most complained-about TV show of the decade, new figures from broadcast watchdog Ofcom reveal. As the 2010s draw to a close, Ofcom has published the ten television programmes that drew the most complaints from viewers over the last ten years. More than 25,000 people complained about […]
The second series of spy thriller Killing Eve has taken out the competition to become BBC iPlayer’s biggest series of the year. The Golden Globe-nominated continuing battle between Eve and Villanelle achieved 40.4 million requests on the iPlayer catch-up service, over 10 million requests more than the next closest series. Police thriller Line Of Duty’s […]
The past few weeks has seen the share prices of the two main satellite operators – Intelsat and SES – hammered by the market, anxious that an FCC-controlled auction of C-band spectrum is going to mean minimum revenue benefits for the operators. Bloomberg, in a report, says that a “catastrophic” November which led to Intelsat […]
Pluto TV, the AVoD service, has added six new channels to satisfy the tastes of all viewers in time for the holiday break. The service now boasts nearly 80 channels. All the new channels are available immediatlely across all common mobile and OTT devices. Joining the Pluto TV line-up are: Pluto TV Action Pluto TV […]
Jean-Marc Racine, Chief Product Officer, Synamedia has offered his 2020 industry predictions, forecasting that new ecosystems and partnerships will boost the demand for linear TV addressable advertising, and that cross-service TV bundles will become more commonplace. Racine’s predictions are: Bundling – The cross-service TV bundle will move centre stage as the perceived wisdom that cord […]
Sports fans across Germany, Austria and Russia will be able to watch world-class winter sports action in 4K following news that Eurosport has partnered with the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) and Infront to screen alpine skiing events from Bormio, Madonna di Campiglio and La Thuile in Ultra HD. The agreement will see Eurosport in […]
Net Insight has signed an agreement to divest its Sye consumer streaming business for SEK 350 million (€33.4m) in cash to a Fortune 500 company. The transaction is set to be completed in the coming weeks. The Sye technology solves fundamental issues for consumer live streaming, a complex ecosystem with large and powerful stakeholders. To […]