Celebrity Gogglebox USA starts on E4 on May 13th and will run for ten weeks. Episodes will also be available to stream on All 4. Produced by Studio Lambert, each hour-long episode will dive straight into the news and events on television, that are currently taking America by storm. The celebrities will share insightful, funny […]
IN10 Media Network has announced the launch of its first regional movie channel – Filamchi – Filman Ka Laalchi, a 24/7 linear broadcast channel for Bhojpuri cinema fans across the country. Targeted towards the Bhojpuri speaking markets in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh as well as metro cities in other regions, Filmachi aims to entertain and […]
ENENSYS Technologies, a provider of media delivery and public safety solutions, has announced that its eMBMS middleware can now be deployed in Bittium’s latest smartphone, Bittium Tough Mobile 2. This new version of Bittium’s highly secure and robust public safety smartphone makes it possible to enable LTE Broadcast features thanks to ENENSYS’ technology. Security and […]
Omnisperience the leading independent analyst and advisory firm focused on the B2B Telecoms Service Providers, their Vendors and Customers, has outlined a new cybersecurity category that focuses on the biggest risk that businesses have – the behaviour of their users. In its new green paper, ‘Introducing new cybersecurity category: User Isolation Protection’, the firm argues […]
A filing made by Telefónica to the Spanish media regulator May 4th confirms that its O2 cellular operator in the UK is in formal talks with Liberty Global-backed Virgin Media. As is usual in these cases, the filing stresses there is no certainty of the talks leading to a successful outcome: “The process started between […]
Although raising the possibility of such a move nearly a year ago, Paolo Pescatore, TMT Analyst at PP Foresight, has nevertheless described the possible merger of Liberty Global’s UK multiplay operator Virgin Media with Telefónica’s O2 mobile telco in the UK as “a bolt out of the blue” and an intriguing move that is more […]
Jeff Bezos’s Amazon is studying UK-headquartered satellite business OneWeb which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. The Sunday Telegraph reported that Bezos, who has his own Project Kuiper mega-constellation of satellites in the planning and development stage, had his lawyers inspecting OneWeb’s assets. Other due-diligence examinations of OneWeb’s financials include Elon Musk’s […]
Hub Entertainment Research’s latest Best Bundle study, which looks at how US consumers put together TV services to best meet their viewing needs, reveals big changes in the last year, driven by both Covid-inflicted, self-isolating behaviours and the introduction of Disney+ in November 2019. Highlights from the study: Streaming services have seen a jump in […]
Atresmedia’s OTT service, Atresplayer Premium, has seen its subscriber base increase by 88 per cent in the first quarter of the year, reach 235,000 customers as of the end of March. At the end of 2019, the service had 125,000 subscribers and 147,000 by the end of February, Now the Covid-19 crisis has boosted take-up […]
WarnerMedia and US streaming service Hulu have reached a distribution agreement that will make HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s streaming offering, available to Hulu subscribers when it launches on May 27th 2020. In a press statement, WarnerMedia said: “A valued distributor of our networks for a number of years, Hulu joins our growing roster of distribution partners […]