Intelsat’s bankruptcy court has been asked to approve bonus payments for the operator’s key staff. The court will decide on December 21st whether to grant the request. Intelsat, in its filing earlier this week, stressed that despite the reconstruction of the company under Chapter 11, the every day work has to continue. Consequently, the KEIP […]
South Africa is some ten years late in completing its digital switchover (DSO) from analogue TV. Now it seems the conversion will take even longer. Local reports say that the nation’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, and the country’s communications Minister, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, have now agreed to a new target date of March 2023 to wrap up […]
License Global magazine, the news publication for the licensed consumer product industry, has released the 2020 edition of The Influentials report, which uniquely highlights the brands that captured the spotlight of pop culture globally throughout the past 10 years and those in position to influence the business of brand licensing in the decade ahead. Honouring […]
ITV’s advanced advertising service Planet V has confirmed that Samsung TV Plus will become the platform’s first 3rd party publisher partner in early 2021. The transformative new agreement reached between ITV and Samsung Ads will enable Planet V buyers to access Samsung TV Plus inventory for planning and buying via the Planet V workflow. With […]
Formula 1 has managed the pandemic “reasonably well”, says a report from investment bank Berenberg, and is now well-positioned for 2021 growth and an improvement in revenues. “F1 will exit the year in arguably the best operating position it has been in years. This year, management and all F1 teams signed a host of agreements […]
BT Group has unveiled its new regional office hub at Three Snowhill – as it announced the first colleagues will move into the brand-new building in the New Year. Around 200 people will begin working from the site early in 2021, following the latest public health guidelines, with more arriving in phases over the following […]
Community Fibre, the London-based full-fibre broadband provider, and Netgem have concluded an agreement to launch Community Fibre TV, leveraging Netgem’s new branded solution for UK ISPs. The service will launch early next year, following on the success with Origin TV this year. In a year marked by exceptional amounts of time spent at home and […]
Wnited, the global streaming service for women’s football, is live streaming UEFA Women’s Champions League globally throughout December. The service is delivered on Red Bee Media’s OTT platform, with content provided through Swedish rights agency Spring Media. Audiences will be able to watch live action from some of the biggest women’s football teams in the […]
Molotov, the French OTT provider, has extended its relationship with Unified Streaming, a specialist in smart video streaming technologies, to enable dynamic ad insertion across its VoD content. The companies began working together in 2015 when Molotov adopted Unified Streaming’s Origin service. This extension sees the addition of its innovative Remix technology, a playlist-based system […]
Danish company TRIAX and Spanish company Ikusi Multimedia announce the planned merger of the two companies in an agreement between TRIAX owner Polaris Private Equity and Ikusi Multimedia owner Velatia Group. With headquarters, production and R&D base in Hornsyld, Denmark, TRIAX A/S is a global supplier of products and solutions for the reception and distribution […]