With the start of the delayed 2020/21 season days away, the English Premier League has launched anti-piracy media campaigns in Hong Kong and Malaysia. The ‘Boot Out Piracy’ advertising campaign aims to raise awareness of the compromised viewing quality and risks faced by fans watching matches via illegal streams. It will highlight the dangers illegal […]
Satelit Nusantara Tiga (SNT) and Thales Alenia Space, a joint-venture between Thales (67 per cent) and Leonardo (33 per cent), have signed an agreement to start the activities of the broadband telecoms satellite SATRIA. Thales Alenia Space, acting as prime contractor for this project, initially signed on July 2019 for a consortium led by Indonesia’s […]
Vevo, the music video platform, has confirmed that its catalogue of music videos will now be available on Telstra TV, the streaming service owned and operated by leading Australian telco, Telstra. Telstra TV users will be able to watch content from some of the biggest performers on the planet across all genres of music as […]
Watch4, the AVoD service featuring movies, TV series, documentaries, news, and sports, has completed a distribution agreement with Huawei. The Watch4 service is now accessible on Huawei Video in Germany. In addition, the Watch4’s UK service W4Free is also now available on Huawei Video throughout the K. Both services provide Huawei customers with access to […]
Tennis fans wanting to watch the action from the National Premier League Tennis (NPL) finals in London this week will be able to view tournament highlights online produced using an advanced form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The tournament is trialling a new AI system created by UK-based data science company Peak Indicators that automatically […]
The Kardashian family is dropping its fly-on-the-wall reality series after 14 years. Keeping Up with the Kardashians will be end with its final season airing in early 2021. The show has been a mainstay for NBCUniversal’s E! Network. “While it has been an absolute privilege and we will miss them wholeheartedly, we respect the family’s […]
Vizio, the #1 US-based TV brand, has announced that customers in the US and Canada can now access the Apple TV app on SmartCast TVs to enjoy Apple TV+, Apple TV channels, new and movies, and personalised and curated recommendations. For a limited time, eligible Vizio SmartCast customers in the US can sign up for […]
AMC has announced that the 11th season of The Walking Dead will be the final one. AMC revealed that the closing chapter of its flagship show will air over two years and consist of 24 episodes in total beginning in late 2021. The Season 10 finale, which was due to air in April, has yet […]
Zixi, a specialist in enabling live broadcast-quality video over any-IP, has announced that global media services provider Red Bee Media has adopted the SDVP and standardised services on Zixi and Zixi ZEN Master for the management of ‘Channel Store’, a global signal aggregation and distribution platform. Channel Store is a multi-format marketplace for content-owners and […]
US streaming service Peacock has ordered two seasons of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot. Original lead star Will Smith confirmed the news on his YouTube channel, commenting: “We have just officially closed the deal with Peacock with an unprecedented two-season-order from a pitch.” The series, with the title now shortened to just Bel-Air. will […]