MediaPaedia Broadcast, the channel operations specialist, who help broadcasters launch, run and monetise their TV channels effectively, today announces that they have launched the Extreme Sports Channel with multiple OTT and VoD operators, branded as ‘Extreme+’. These launches have enabled the channel to reach new audiences in Asia with Rad TV and North America with […]
Amino Technologies, a software-led global media technology company, is working with PCCW Media, a fully integrated multimedia and entertainment company headquartered in Hong Kong, to enable its Now TV video service. Amino’s software enables both pay-TV and streaming services through an Android based user experience, including Netflix integration via Amino’s Hailstorm Partnership with Netflix. Now […]
Skyline Communications, a global supplier of end-to-end digital transformation software solutions for the ICT media and broadband industry, has announced that the German ARD Group deployed DataMiner for the end-to-end management and quality control of its live event streams of the 2020 European football championship. This operation was set up as a very efficient joint […]
ZEE5 Global, the world’s largest platform for South Asian content today announced the launch of its Mega Bangladeshi Original web series, Ladies & Gentlemen. This is the platform’s second web-series and sixth Bangladeshi Original. The cast of the series Tasnia Farin, Partha Barua, Hasan Masood, Iresh Zaker, Mukit Zakaria, Pavel Areen, Maria Nur, and from […]
Red Bee Media and FabriQ Media Group have now delivered three livestreamed concerts with the Dutch band The Streamers, to a global audience of 5.6 million people, across 88 countries in total. The third and final installment of the concert series reached over 1.9 million viewers on Saturday, May 29th. All livestreams were delivered through […]
Spain is set to eliminate the 0.9 per cent tax on telco revenues and pass the burden to finance RTVE onto global streaming players such as Netflix, HBO and Amazon. The Spanish government is revising the Audio Visual Law and is set to exempt Spanish telcos from financing the public broadcaster with around €128 million […]
The BBC has published a review set up to establish the facts around the decision to appoint Martin Bashir as Religious Affairs Correspondent in September 2016 and the subsequent re-grading of the role to Religion Editor in 2018. The review was conducted by Ken MacQuarrie, until January 2021, the BBC’s Director, Nations and Regions, and […]
In a last minute bid, Amazon Prime Video has acquired the rights to eight Ligue 1 fixtures a week for three seasons in France, for a reported €275 million a year. These are the games previously owned by Mediapro. As a result the league’s long-standing broadcaster Canal+ has pulled out of its agreement to broadcast […]
Net advertising expenditure in Asia Pacific, calculated after discounts, declined 4.3 per cent Y/Y in 2020, according to the Asia Pacific Advertising Trends 2021 report from Media Partners Asia (MPA). Pandemic-induced macroeconomic uncertainty softened advertiser demand in H1 2020. As economies rebound, recovery is underway with ad spend forecast to exceed $200 billion by end […]
Vodafone UK has chosen Samsung as a supplier for its 5G infrastructure, as it seeks to extend its coverage. Samsung kit will initially be installed in some 2,500 rural sites in the south-west of England and most of Wales. The South Korean firm is one of a number of companies contracted by Vodafone to build […]