The Kudelski Group, a global specialist in digital security, has announced a patent licence agreement with fuboTV, the US OTT streaming service primarily focused on sports. “This agreement further validates the relevance of the Group’s patent portfolio to the OTT/streaming video market”, said Gilles Rapin Senior Vice-President, Innovation and Business Development at the Kudelski Group. […]
Game of Thrones was the big winner at the 2nd Annual Global TV Demand Awards presented by Parrot Analytics during the 2020 NATPE Miami Marketplace + Conference. HBO’s epic series took home the top honour, Most In-Demand TV Series in the World, along with the trophy for Most In-Demand Drama Series in the World, for 2019. […]
Make.TV, a division of LTN Global, used by leaders in news, esports, sports and entertainment to handle live video in the cloud, has announced that Germany’s Cologne Broadcasting Centre (CBC) will be deploying Live Video Cloud for its popular nightly live talk show, ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here – the Hour After’. CBC […]
Dalet, a provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, has announced the appointment of Matthew Carter as Head of Sales UK, Benelux and South Africa. Carter, who led global sales engineering for the recently acquired Ooyala Flex Media Platform business, will spearhead Dalet sales initiatives with oversight of Dalet market strategy, customer […]
Disney has brought forward the launch date of its Disney+ SVoD service in the UK and the rest of Western Europe by a week. The D2C service will now roll out on March 24th with pricing confirmed at £5.99/€6.99 per month, or £59.99/€69.99 for an annual subscription. A basic Netflix subscription in the UK also […]
In parallel to its deal with UK telco Vodafone to support its full-fibre rollout, broadband infrastructure provider CityFibre has acquired FibreNation from TalkTalk Group, increasing CityFibre’s rollout target from 5 million to up to 8 million premises. This investment programme, totalling up to £4 billion, will also secure TalkTalk as a major wholesale customer across […]
Portugal’s Secretary of State for Cinema, Audiovisual and Media, Nuno Artur Silva, has promised an imminent “reassessment” of the national DTT offer. Speaking during a Parliamentary hearing, he promised to resolve the issue of surplus capacity on the first national DTT multiplex, managed by Altice Portugal’s unit Meo, adding that the Government will consider the […]
Multichannel programmer UKTV has revealed that its network grew by 4 per cent in 2019, with its flagship comedy channel, Dave, ranked number one non-PSB channel for 16-34s. Bumper viewing over the festive period contributed to driving Share of Commercial Impacts (SoCI) to 7.76 per cent for 2019, versus 7.48 per cent for 2018. Following […]
Multiplay telco Vodafone has revealed plans to accelerate the roll out of full-fibre broadband in the UK by restructuring its existing deal with broadband infrastructure provider CityFibre to encourage it to build its fibre infrastructure more quickly and to more places. With full-fibre broadband still only available to around 11 per cent of UK premises, […]
BARB, the UK television audience measurement currency, has started to report unduplicated programme reach and time spent viewing figures across multiple screens, marking the third deliverable from the four-stage Project Dovetail initiative. The new figures are reported on a daily basis across three screens (TV sets, tablets and PCs), and are available through existing data-processing […]