Liberty Global has expanded its relationship with Smart Home Services specialist Plume to give consumers more control over devices connected to their home network. Liberty Global will roll out Smart Home Services from Plume across its footprint during 2020. A first selection of these services were made available to Virgin Media customers in 2019 and […]
Tubi, the AVoD service, has reported record growth for 2019. In December alone, the company saw its Monthly Active Users (MAU) grow to 25 million and Total View Time (TVT) rocket to over 163 million hours watched – a year-over-year TVT increase of 160 per cent. In addition, the company will accelerate its content spending […]
BBC Studios has announced a drama content deal with Chinese streaming platform Youku at the Showcase 2020 event. The deal involves the extended licensing of the entire four seasons of Sherlock, and the agreement for over 80 hours of BBC Studios drama programming, which will strengthen Youku’s British drama offering in China. The deal includes […]
SES has announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Sandeep Jalan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of SES. He will assume the position from May 6th. Jalan has 30 years of experience in financial and operational leadership roles across Asia and Europe. He is most recently the CFO of Aperam, a global player in […]
Last week Jeff Bezos sold a total of 1.7 million shares of his Amazon stockholdings, worth some $3.45 billion. Overall, according to Bloomberg’s tally, Bezos has now disposed of stock worth more than $13 billion over the past 4 years. Much of this cash is being used to fund development work on his ‘Blue Origin’ […]
The 2020 Oscars earned 110,000 mentions from the UK audience on social media, compared to 115,000 in 2019. Mentions had been boostedlast year by British treasure Olivia Colman’s win for Lead Actress. This year, Korean film Parasite (pictured) was the darling, earning dramatically more buzz than any other contender in the UK with mentions of […]
Last week an Arianespace Soyuz rocket launched 34 satellites into orbit. OneWeb says its launch cadence will be a little slower this spring to allow for modifications to the satellites rolling off its Florida production line. Next month’s (March) launch will go ahead as planned and is expected to carry another 30+ satellites into orbit, […]
Judge Victor Marrero of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has rejected a lawsuit to block the merger of telcos T-Mobile and Sprint. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said he was pleased with the district court’s decision. “The T-Mobile-Sprint merger will help close the digital divide and secure United […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, Andrew Smith, the licensee of Lamb Inn in the UK Midland town of Stone has been found to be infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports without having the required commercial agreement. Smith was ordered to pay damages in the sum of £18,539.24 (€22,000) plus interest of £247.19 […]
Netflix and Alexander Woo have signed an overall deal for scripted series programming and other projects. Woo will work with Netflix to develop, write and produce content across drama and science fiction genres. Woo is a playwright, screenwriter, and writer/producer for television. He most recently served as co-creator, showrunner and executive producer of the AMC […]