Intelsat’s senior executives continue to benefit from the company’s Key Employee Incentive Plan (KEIP) which means that CEO Stephen Spengler is still paid $130,555 per month. Spengler has received more than $8 million since Chapter 11 was declared according to Intelsat’s monthly report and summary documents filed with Intelsat’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reconstruction court on […]
Discovery has further expanded its coverage of the 24 Hours of Le Mans as part of a renewed agreement with the FIA World Endurance Championship and its exclusive media rights partner, Infront. Through Discovery’s portfolio of motorsport brands and channels, the partnership comprises coverage from every round of the FIA WEC including qualifying, available live […]
Satellite giant SES will not be present in IBC’s Hall 1 this coming December. SES, for the past year or more, has curtailed any non-essential outside activity and depended more or less on Zoom meetings. The IBC decision seems wholly based on Covid worries more than any withdrawal from IBC itself. A source says: “Our […]
Research by FandomSpot reveals that Harry Potter is the most popular movie franchise in the world – number one in a total of 75 countries, including the US, Canada, and Brazil, as well as a majority of Europe, including countries such as France, the UK, Italy, Germany,and Spain. Second is Spider-Man, the most popular franchise […]
Consumer electronics company TCL Electronics and streaming platform and device specialist Roku are launching TCL Roku TV models in the UK, available in both HD and UHD resolution, in sizes ranging from 32” to 65”. Both the 4K UHD (RP620K) and HD (RS520K) models support HDR Pro which uses Dynamic Colour Enhancement through 3D LUT […]
BT Sport has revealed its pick of Premier League fixtures for the first month of the 2021/22 season. On the first Saturday of the season (August 14th), BT Sport will air Manchester United vs Leeds United live from Old Trafford. On August 21st, BT Sport will show Liverpool taking on Burnley at Anfield, and on […]
NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Cisco to provide the networking technology to enable the first-ever all-IP delivery for its production of this summer’s Olympics Games, which take place in Tokyo, Japan. The announcement was made by Dan Robertson, VP NBC Olympics IT, and Jonathan Davidson, SVP and General Manager […]
Electric SUV racing series, Extreme E has announced that Motorsport TV Russia is broadcasting the championship’s X Prixs as well as race highlights, review, preview and Magazine shows – in English and Russian – on its linear channel, Motor TV. In addition, audiences in the region can enjoy Extreme E’s full debut season coverage on […]
Film1 is has announced that Film1 Action, one of the best performing linear channels in the Film1 bouquet, is now available on Amazon Prime Video Channels in the Netherlands. Film1 Action will be included in the Film1 add-on package where Prime members can access a special curation of Hollywood blockbusters, popular movies and now exciting […]
SES has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect Delivery Partner programme. Through a technical and business review process, AWS validated SES’s ability to connect its customers directly to their AWS services over its network of multi-orbit satellites. This provides SES customers flexible, secure access to their cloud-based applications and services from virtually any […]