Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, and The Walt Disney Company have extended their long-term content relationship in a multi-year deal. For the first time, NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service and Viasat pay-TV channels will have the exclusive first-pay window for the latest movies from 20th Century Studios in the Nordic region. […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch another 60 of its Starlink broadband satellites today (February 17th) from Cape Canaveral. The launch was originally scheduled for February 14th, then rescheduled to February 15th but bad weather again forced a delay. Today’s launch mission will be the fifth overall for Starlink, and the third flight for this particular […]
Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile US, Telefonica and Orange are jointly testing a blockchain solution for the automated management of inter-operator roaming discount agreements. The trial, carried out through the GSMA, is of a solution initially designed by Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier, the operator’s international wholesale unit. The partners say the solution […]
South Africa is in the process of switching off its analogue TV signals and replacing transmissions with a DTT service. The hand-over process, already some 5 years overdue, and is taking much longer than anticipated. The latest promise is that analogue transmissions will cease this coming July. However, the government-owned signal distributor, Sentech, has warned […]
Ofcom has fined the licence holders of Talk Radio £75,000 (€90,000) and NTV Mir Baltic £20,000 for breaking broadcasting rules. Talk Radio is a national digital speech radio station. NTV Mir Baltic is a television channel broadcasting to the Russian-speaking community in Latvia. Under Ofcom rules, all broadcasters must remain duly impartial when covering matters […]
FreeWheel, a Comcast company and provider of video advertising software, has announced the appointment of Virginie Dremeaux as Executive Director, Product and Sales Marketing International to support its expertese in the addressable TV industry across Europe. Based in Paris, she will report to Maria Weaver, CMO of Comcast Advertising. In her new role, Dremeaux will […]
CBS Reality closed another successful year by maintaining its position as the #1 factual entertainment channel in the UK amongst women 16+. The channel delivered 1.2 per cent of the UK’s adult commercial TV audience in 2019, and attracted six million adults every month. CBS Reality continues to showcase original true crime programming to deliver […]
Political broadcaster John Pienaar will leave the BBC after 28 years and host the Drive Time slot on Times Radio, the new national digital radio station launching later this year in partnership between The Times, The Sunday Times and audio business Wireless. Pienaar is one of the most familiar voices in UK broadcasting, with a […]
The Turkish public broadcaster TRT’s international news platform TRT World has entered into a partnership with the Maltese telco Melita. The English language TRT World will now be available to Melita TV subscribers on extended and extended basic TV products. “We are pleased to announce our partnership with Melita as this will allow us to […]
Ahead of 2020 Earth Day on April 22nd, Discovery Channel will air The Story of Plastic – a look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people that inhabit it. An official selection of Mill Valley Film Festival (Audience Award winner) […]