La Liga TV advertising revenues for this season are up 20 per cent on the previous season, as fans unable to attend live matches watch on TV, boosting audiences worldwide. La Liga has secured revenues from short ads and sponsorships worth €110 million for the 2020-2021 season, said Oscar Mayo, La Liga’s International Development Director, […]
The live-action remake of Mulan is now available on Disney+ after forgoing a cinema release in the UK and US, and other countries where the SVoD service in available. The movie was originally scheduled to be released in theatres in March before the pandemic kept pushing that date back. Despite cinemas reopening in many countries, […]
Elon Musk’s goal of getting a debut broadband-by-satellite service up and running this year achieved another milestone on September 3rd when an additional 60 of SpaceX’s Starlink craft were launched from the Kennedy Space Centre. The launch was the 12th mission for the Starlink fleet overall and the 10th this year and occurred at 08.46 […]
The average UK adult will spend nearly £1 million (€1.12m) in bills over their lifetime – and now spends more on tech, such as TV subscriptions, mobile phone contracts and music streaming services, than they do on utilities, according to a study conducted by multiplay telco O2 to celebrate the anniversary of its flexible custom […]
Earlier this week Giles Thorne, a media & telecoms analyst at investment bank Jefferies, gave Eutelsat a set of rosy expectations and a target share price of €18. A similar examination of prospects for satellite operator SES does not deliver the same optimistic forecasts… Indeed, the bank’s summary is pretty miserable, and despite a ‘Buy’ […]
Virgin Media has added YouTube Kids to its TV platform. The app, which is available to all Virgin Media customers with a V6 set top box, allows parents to customise the experience to suit their children’s needs and preferences. This includes different content settings for preschoolers, younger, or older kids, and the ability to block […]
The country of Monaco, famous for its Grand Prix, wants another satellite. Monaco’s population of some 39,000 is, like any other small country, entitled to exploit is orbital ITU permissions. It already has one craft, a joint-venture that was launched in 2015 (called TurkmenAlem-52E/MonacoSat) and serving Europe, MENA and Central Asia in Ku-band. The government […]
The new HBO Max Original documentary Class Action Park has been the #1 movie on the US streaming platform since it debuted on August 27th. It is also the most popular title across the entire HBO Max catalogue among new subscribers, and ranks #3 among all subscribers behind the hit HBO series Lovecraft Country and […]
Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform security, has announced the integration of Irdeto TraceMark for Distribution, a watermarking solution for content owners, post-production studios, and content aggregators, with IBM’s Aspera on Cloud, the file transfer solution. The companies say that the combined solution “offers the film industry a fast to market, easy to implement, and […]
Zack Snyder’s upcoming zombie action heist film Army of the Dead is already spawning a film prequel and anime series at Netflix. Shay Hatten, one of the writers of the screenplay for Army of the Dead, will write the prequel as well as the anime series. Hollywood director Snyder commented: “I’m incredibly excited for the […]