The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and BFI have today announced the six industry mentors who will provide a year-long mentorship to the BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew 2020 mentees. Now in its sixth year, BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew is a partnership between BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, BAFTA and […]
Eurosport, Discovery’s multi-sports brand, has selected Grass Valley solutions as part of a major technology transformation to provide ‘true cloud’ architecture supporting playout across the network’s sports broadcasts. To help achieve their goal of a unified content delivery system, Eurosport chose GV AMPP Playout, Grass Valley’s newly launched application suite for its Agile Media Processing […]
3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a provider of software solutions for set-top boxes (STB) and multiscreen entertainment, and KAONMEDIA, a provider of STBs and broadband customer premises equipment, jointly announce that Allente, the new entity resulting from the recent merger between Viasat Consumer and Canal Digital AS, is to deploy KAON STBs and middleware alongside new […]
Technetix has announced its latest innovation with the launch of the DBT-1800C. It is no coincidence, says the company, that this announcement is made in the same week that the industry staple, the GainMaker, is discontinued. If you are concerned about replacement modules for existing GainMakers in your network, then Technetix has a solution and […]
Global pay-TV revenues peaked in 2016 at $202 billion (€171.2bn). Revenues will fall to $152 billion in 2025. This is lower than 2010’s $175 billion – despite the number of pay-TV subscribers rising by 345 million between 2010 and 2025. Revenues fell by $9 billion in both 2018 and 2019. The top five countries will […]
Netflix is moving into a new headquarters in London’s West End as it seeks to expand its UK productions. The streamer is taking over the lease on an 87,000 square-foot building on Berners Street from current occupant Capita, according to Bloomberg. Netflix, which has 269 employees in the UK, already rents some 30,000 square feet […]
TV subscription brands such as Amazon, Disney+, and Netflix are their own worst enemy when it comes to losing customers, according to a report launched by Singula Decisions, a specialist in subscriber intelligence. The findings highlight that while brands obsess about the problem of ‘churn’ they only have themselves to blame for customers cancelling their […]
The Premier League has confirmed that all fixtures until the end of October will continue to be made available for fans to watch live in the UK – but five games per game week will only be available to view on a pay-per-view basis. Under these new arrangements, the current live match selections will remain […]
Italy’s video entertainment market is poised for vigorous growth next year, despite a challenging 2020, according to a video insights report from Futuresource Consulting. This upsurge will be driven by SVoD entering a new growth phase, as only one in four Italian households will subscribe to an SVoD service by the end of 2020, providing […]
Apple is giving Apple TV+ subscribers an extra three free months of access that will last until February 2021. This free trial period will extend the year-long free trial periods of users who purchased a new Apple device in September 2019 and signed-up to the Apple TV+ service when it launched on November 1st 2019. […]