South Africa’s much-delayed spectrum auction will see some progress by the end of September when regulator ICASA will issue two invitations to apply for interested parties. ICASA says the spectrum will then be issued at the end of the regulator’s financial year (March 2021) which is a further 3 months later than the promised December […]
ITV has announced Studio 55 Ventures – a new collaboration with Founders Intelligence that will seek to invest in new business ideas aimed at materially enhancing ITV’s reach amongst 16-34 year olds. Applications will open for teams of people, from both inside and outside ITV, to apply for the chance to create and scale a […]
NFL Media and YouTube TV have announced a new carriage agreement to bring the two NFL-based channels to YouTube TV subscribers in the US, ahead of the new season that kicks off on September 11th. NFL Network is available on YouTube TV’s base package. NFL RedZone is also available now, as part of YouTube TV’s […]
ChinaSat has reported a 3.9 per cent decline in revenues and 8 per cent decline in net profits for H1/2020 compared to H1/2019. Revenues for the half-year slid from RMB 1.31 billion (€162.2m) to RMB 1.26 billion, with profit dropping from RMB 208 million to RMB 191 million. The company says its highlights for the […]
ViacomCBS Networks UK has announced a new partnership between MTV Play and O2. As part of the deal, O2 customers will be offered the SVoD D2C streaming app free of charge for three months, as part of their existing mobile network subscriptions. O2 subscribers are now able to watch hundreds of hours’ worth of MTV […]
Most satellites that depend on chemical propulsion once in orbit are designed with an orbit lifetime of some 12-15 years. However, electrical propulsion can dramatically extend that life in orbit. Turksat is using Airbus Defence & Space to build its latest craft, Turksat 5A which is scheduled for launch in later this year by SpaceX. […]
Samsung Electronics has followed LG Display in offering an ultra short-throw projector. The design comes in two sizes 130” and 120” (LSP9T and LSP7T) which each generate laser-delivered 4K images. The 130” Premiere model comes with High Dynamic Range 10+ certification and utilises 3 laser devices and a peak brightness of up to 2800 lumens […]
Médiamétrie is taking over the daily SVoD barometer, which was previously operated by NPA Conseil in partnership with Harris Interactive. Harris Interactive will continue to collect reporting-based data from the public on a daily basis. At a time when SVoD platforms are firmly establishing themselves in the audiovisual landscape, with nearly 1 in 2 French […]
FTA Communication Technologies (Inverto), a provider of broadcast reception equipment, smart metering and monitoring solutions and advanced satellite and IP streaming solutions today announced the launch of Unifiber – a new product family addressing the increasing demand for reliable, high quality and cost effective solutions for distributing TV services over fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. As bandwidth […]
ODMedia Group, the Dutch content services company and specialist in media processing and aggregation for on-demand media, has signed a deal with German content distributor SchröderMedia that will bring their extensive library of titles to global digital exploitation. With a library of over 2200 titles, including classics and popular titles such as Anne Frank, Hexe […]