Alex Mahon, Channel 4’s CEO, has announced that Jonathan Allan has been promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer as part of a restructured leadership team which brings together all the key operational functions into a newly expanded COO’s office. In the new role, Jonathan – who is currently Chief Commercial Officer – will […]
Some 75 million people in the US are now using a smart speaker, and more than half of them – 39 million – are using it to control their smart TV, video streamer or other TV device at least weekly. This finding comes from Strategy Analytics’ report, 2019 Smart Speaker User Survey – US Results, […]
BBC TV presenter and former footballer Gary Lineker says the BBC licence fee should become a voluntary charge. Lineker, the highest-paid BBC presenter with earnings of £1.75 million (€2m) in 2018-19, told The Guardian that the licence fee was the broadcaster’s “fundamental problem” and in need of reform. “You’re forced to pay it if you […]
In an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, RTL’s CEO Bernd Reichart says the broadcaster will invest €1 billion annually in new in-house productions. The cash will be for the broadcaster’s national FTA channel as well as its streaming service ‘TV Now’ and aiming to take on the likes of Netflix, Amazon and the other emerging […]
Hybrid TV platform netgem.tv is now offering the BritBox SVoD service through its growing network of ISP operators and enabled netgem.tv devices in the market. To mark the deal with BritBox, the service created by the BBC and ITV, netgem.tv is also adding an extra 15 HD channels to its existing line-up, which already features […]
Sami Kassab, a media analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP last week held a variety of meetings in Washington DC in connection with the C-Band Alliance’s plan for the auction of satellite spectrum over the US for re-use by the 5G industry. Kassab met with a couple of opponents to the scheme as well as key […]
ITV Studios has announced the appointment of Lisa Perrin, as the new Managing Director of its International production business. Lisa joins the company from Endemol Shine Group (ESG) where she held the position of CEO Creative Networks. Reporting directly to Julian Bellamy, Managing Director ITV Studios, Perrin will be part of the senior management team, […]
Insight TV, the 4K HDR broadcaster, content creator and format seller, has launched its content on Turkish pay-TV platform D-Smart. This launch marks a milestone in Insight TV’s global expansion as Turkey becomes its 45th country. Owned by the Demirören Group, the D-Smart platform offers TV and internet services to more than one million households […]
Eutelsat Communications’ EUTELSAT 7C satellite has entered full commercial service and is ready to support broadcast customers across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Turkey. Manufactured by Maxar Technologies, EUTELSAT 7C is a 3.4 tonne high-power all-electric satellite carrying 49 36-Mhz equivalent Ku-band transponders. Successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on 20 June 2019, the […]
Mega-constellation operator OneWeb has signed an MoU with Astana International, the largest financial hub in Central Asia, in order to accelerate the take up of broadband in Kazakhstan and the surrounding region. “The MoU marks the start of a partnership focused on achieving two important goals in Kazakhstan and Central Asia: providing the first low-latency […]