Eleven has restructured and strengthened its leadership team, as the Group prepares to continue to expand its offering to fans around the world in 2021. MyCujoo’s executive team have now been formally incorporated into the Eleven management group, following Eleven’s acquisition of the streaming service in November 2020. MyCujoo co-founder and CEO Pedro Presa joins […]
BBC Studios, the Corporation’s commercial arm, 5G mobile network operator EE, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Talesmith and Dimension Studios have unveiled The Green Planet 5G AR Consortium, led by the immersive content studio Factory 42. The Consortium will work together on an innovation project to explore and develop a ground- breaking AR experience inspired by […]
Investment bank Berenberg, in its previews of media stocks for 2021, is downbeat on satellite operator SES. It is maintaining its ‘SELL’ advice to clients and gives a guide price for SES shares of just €6.80 per share. The bank downgraded SES last year and says it remains of the view that consensus forecasts will […]
Chinese telco China Mobile has signed a content deal with La Liga which will run until the 2022/23 season. China Mobile will now carry top flight football matches from La Liga, as well as all fixtures featuring second tier team Espanyol, where Chinese international Wu Lei currently plays. Games will be aired on China Mobile’s […]
Cairo-based satellite operator Nilesat has informed the Egyptian Stock Exchange as well as shareholders of its decision to modify its Articles of Association. The Nilesat board approved the addition of new activities to provide services, consultations, and integrated solutions for operating satellites and launching new satellite channels, the company said in a stock market disclosure […]
In a move that will enable Malta multiplay operator GO to offer more flexible bundling and unbundling of its quadplay services and address the needs and interests of different customer segments with hyper-targeted TV packages and promotions, digital monetisation and customer management solutions specialist Cerillion is to upgrade GO’s core business support system (BSS) platform […]
VUALTO, a live and on-demand video streaming and DRM provider, has announced that ITV has chosen to implement VUALTO’s dynamic event orchestration technology to deliver live streamed events via its ITV Hub video-on-demand service, integrated with VUALTO’s scalable DRM solution to protect the broadcaster’s valuable video content. Following a successful first test with ITV via […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that SK Broadband, one of the largest broadband Internet access providers in South Korea, has selected NAGRA’s NexGuard forensic watermarking technology to protect the operator’s premium content on a wide range of IPTV set-top boxes. The NexGuard Pay-TV […]
Amazon Prime Video has secured the exclusive first window worldwide rights (excluding the US, Canada and China) to the psychological thriller Cruel Summer. From leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne), alongside Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple’s prod-co Iron Ocean Productions, the series will launch on Prime Video following its US premiere on Freeform later this […]
Abu Dhabi Media, the UAE public service broadcaster, and StarzPlay, the SVoD service, have announced a strategic partnership to live-stream UFC events across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The launch comes ahead of UFC Fight Island’s return to Abu Dhabi from January 16th, and the eagerly anticipated bout between UFC superstar Conor McGregor […]