Advanced Television

Eleven Sports delivers Thai League football

In association with Zense Entertainment and the FA Thailand, Eleven Sports will work with Mycujoo to deliver coverage of the Thai League to fans in Thailand for the remainder of 2020. The streaming service will be in operation in the coming weeks and will offer supporters access to every game from the Thai League 1 […]

October 19, 2020

TBS enlists K7 Media

Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) is the latest media organisation to subscribe to K7 Media’s media intelligence services. One of Japan’s leading private broadcasters, TBS has hired K7 Media to work directly with its international team to provide expert insights surrounding the global TV format market, support with international growth and help the broadcaster connect […]

October 19, 2020

BBC NI launches Rewind online portal

A new website opening up access to footage from BBC Northern Ireland’s archive is now live. Rewind currently hosts a collection of more than 13,000 clips including news reports, documentaries and lifestyle programmes from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Work is also underway to open up more of the archive from the 1980s and 1990s […]

October 19, 2020

Widevine chooses SmartLabs as 3PL Partner

Widevine DRM has announced a new Third Party License (3PL) Programme to help scale device integrations and has chosen SmartLabs as one of four authorised partners to support the integration. The new partnership means SmartLabs will be able to conduct independent testing and compliance on behalf of Widevine with immediate effect. Widevine’s Digital Rights Management […]

October 19, 2020

UFC 254 live on BT Sport Box Office

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s hugely anticipated return to the Octagon on Fight Island, will be shown exclusively live on BT Sport Box Office on October 24th. The unbeaten UFC lightweight champion will defend his belt for the first time since September 2019 against interim champion Justin Gaethje. In Gaethje, Khabib will face an opponent whose fights have […]

October 19, 2020

MediaHub Australia’s FibreHub strengthens network operations with DataMiner

Skyline Communications, the leading global supplier of AI-powered, end-to-end, multi-vendor network management and orchestration software solutions for the broadband & media industry, proudly announces a new deployment for MediaHub Australia, a large-scale broadcast playout services provider based in Ingleburn, New South Wales. The goal of this project was to provide MediaHub Australia with a solution […]

October 19, 2020

DCMS ‘clarifies’ post Brexit rules

In a coordinated move with PM Boris Johnson’s statement on the state of Brexit negotiations on his ‘deal deadline’, DCMS has issued a clarification of where British broadcasters and VoD services will stand on January 1st 2021. As is traditional with Brexit, the deadline has now been moved. DCMS says the Audiovisual Media Services Directive […]

October 16, 2020

YouTube F1 stream attracts 1.7m views

Formula 1 fans watched online history being made as Lewis Hamilton equalled Michael Schumacher’s record number of 91 race wins at the Formula 1 Aramco Grosser Preis Der Eifel 2020 in Germany on October 11th. The race was broadcast on the Formula 1 YouTube Channel live and for free, in seven European markets: Germany, Switzerland, […]

October 16, 2020By Colin Mann

MP criticises UK’s OneWeb purchase

A UK opposition MP has savaged the UK government’s involvement in satellite company OneWeb, currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation. The UK is putting at least £400 million into the company (with India’s Bharti matching the investment). OneWeb is likely to emerge from bankruptcy before the end of this year. Chi Onwurah, a Labour party […]

October 16, 2020By Chris Forrester

DoJ thwarts Dish/DirecTV merger

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has ruled out any sort of merger between Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network and arch-rival AT&T’s DirecTV. The two pay-TV giants are both losing subscribers and a merger between them has long been mooted, not least by Ergen who has frequently said that a merger was inevitable. However, the New […]

October 16, 2020By Chris Forrester