Pluto TV, a ViacomCBS company and global AVoD service, has announced a multi-year global pact bringing Pluto TV’s platform of over 250 live, linear, thematically-curated and branded partner channels onto Hisense’s new Vidaa platform across the US, Europe and Latin America, for free. Beginning in the Spring of 2020, Pluto TV will be deeply integrated […]
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has been asked by the government’s Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Sanae Takaichi to make further cuts in the annual “viewing fee” which every home must pay. Last year Japan’s Supreme Court ruled that every home must pay irrespective of whether NHK is watched or not. The move was endorsed […]
The NoTa Conference, reviewing television trends and consumption around the world, has presented research that catch-up and preview viewing for television programmes can significantly add-up to the ratings. In terms of contents, “emotainment” represents a strong trend to unite the whole family around television. Fiction remains the key genre addressing both real events and supernatural […]
Portuguese FTA broadcaster TVI has acquired the rights to air 22 live matches from this summer’s Euro 2020 football tournament in a sublicensing deal with pay-TV network SportTV. TVI will broadcast all of Portugal’s matches, as well as nine group stage games, four round of 16 game, both semi-finals and the final. The network will […]
Communications company and sports and news-focused live TV streaming service fuboTV have agreed a video streaming distribution and technology partnership that they say advances how content can be delivered and consumed in-flight. The partnership claims to be the first to leverage technology standards from the global technical association, the Streaming Video Alliance, and apply them […]
Thaicom is suffering with revenue down 22.4 per cent for last year to THB 4,663 million (€136m) which it blamed on a decrease of revenues from satellite and related services due to customer churn. That churn, it says, mostly occurred in the first-half of 2019 and has since stabilized and been helped by new customers […]
Sky has reported interim results from its tracking of BAME inclusivity both on screen and behind the camera across its entertainment channels. In the 12 months to the end of September 2019, BAME representation on screen was 31 per cent, well ahead of the pay-TV broadcaster’s published target of 20 per cent. Progress is also […]
BT Sport has announced the integration of the BT Sport enhanced video player for UFC events. Viewers can now watch full event replays immediately after the live broadcast. Offering instant, spoiler-free replays and an interactive timeline to enjoy the fights as they happen, the enhanced video player is available on the BT Sport website and […]
beIN Sports has announced the addition of beIN Sports Xtra, the network’s free, 24/7 English-language live sports streaming channel, to Samsung TV Plus, channel 1062. beIN Sports Xtra joins the nearly 100 free TV channels already on the Samsung TV Plus service. Established in December of 2016 in the US, Samsung TV Plus is pre-installed […]
Signalling technology’s massive presence in sports, a record 26.42 terabytes of data was transferred within the stadium during Super Bowl LIV in Miami on February 2nd – an increase of 9.9 per cent from last year’s NFL championship game, despite being held at a smaller-capacity stadium with nearly 10,000 fewer fans Extreme Networks, the official […]