A team of ten world-leading broadcasters, collaborating as part of IBC’s Accelerator Innovation Programme, has revealed plans for a ‘proof of concept’ demonstration of a series of 5G-enabled remote broadcast production use cases, live from Amsterdam on September 10th, 16.00pm BST/ 17.00pm CET. The project team, comprising of ten broadcasting ‘Champions’ led by the BBC, […]
Six-Time Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton has announced the creation of his very own race team, X44, which will make its debut in Extreme E, the groundbreaking new electric off-road racing series. Named with reference to Lewis’s own racing number, X44 will enter Season 1 of the Extreme E Championship, with its first X […]
Sky today announced the launch date for Brave New World, a Sky original, all episodes available from October 2nd on Sky One and streaming service NOW TV. Based on Aldous Huxley’s groundbreaking 1932 novel, Brave New World imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, […]
THEMA, Group Canal+ company, has announced the launch of Mezzo TV-channel on Skylink, a pay-TV platform of M7 Group, in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Subscribers will get access to the greatest international venues from all around the world: opera houses, concert halls, festivals, dance theaters and jazz clubs. With a history of more than […]
disguise’s response to the Covid-19 impact on the live events industry has earned the company a spot in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, marking the third consecutive year it has made it in the publication’s Fast Track league. The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 index ranks Britain’s 100 private tech companies with the fastest-growing […]
Asia Pacific will have 467 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025, up from 267 million in 2019, according to the Asia Pacific SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. China will contribute 279 million SVoD subscriptions in 2025 – or 60 per cent of the region’s total. India will supply a further 66 million […]
Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of pro-copyright lobbying body Copyright Alliance, has called on the US Congress to lead the way on tackling commercial streaming piracy. Writing an Opinion piece in political website The Hill, Kupferschmid notes that nowadays, three-quarters of American households subscribe to one of the major video streaming services, but when technologies grow this […]
Apple has hired Tim Connolly to work on its Apple TV+ service. According to The Telegraph, Connolly has joined Apple in an unspecified role within the company’s video services, but will likely be working on increasing the number of Apple TV channels, as well as creating more bundled deals. Connolly previously worked at Disney where […]
Mediapro is seeking to sell its European TV rights to La Liga in seven countries for the seasons 2021-2022 and 2025-2026. The rights include all matches from La Liga Santander (First Division) and La Liga Smart Bank (Second Division) and the play-off matches in countries including Austria, Belgium, Greece, France, Italy and Poland. Currently, in […]
New Zealand’s MediaWorks has confirmed it is selling its TV operations to Discovery. The deal includes TV channels Three and Bravo, streaming service ThreeNow, and multi-platform news and current affairs service Newshub, as well as the further channels Three+1, Bravo+1, The Edge TV and The Breeze TV. The company says the sale is subject to […]