The long-running and hugely expensive legal action between Devas Multimedia and the Antrix commercial arm of the Indian State Research Organisation (ISRO) has seen a ruling from India’s Supreme Court. The Court threw out the case brought by Devas. The Court’s ruling said: “We find all the grounds of attack to the concurrent orders of […]
Rishi Sunak, UK finance secretary, has led a cabinet pushback against calls by culture secretary Nadine Dorries for an end to the BBC licence fee from 2027. Sunak told Dorries there had not been any cabinet discussion, a view shared by colleagues, according to the FT. On January 17th Dorries tweeted that funding would be […]
Al Jazeera, the Qatar media group, has stopped creating content for its new conservative digital project in the US, Rightly, according to The Guardian. Apparently in December, the company ended its show on the platform, which was being overseen by its editor-in-chief, Scott Norvell, a Fox News veteran. Al Jazeera launched Rightly last year to […]
The FT reports that as Intelsat emerges from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reconstruction the satellite operator will lose its CEO Steve Spengler (who will leave with a pay-out of at least $4 million) but could also find itself open to a takeover. SES is mentioned as a potential buyer. The FT quotes analyst Armand Musey, […]
Limited series Stay Close has climbed to the #1 spot on the Netflix Top 10 English TV list with 53.72 million hours viewed in the week commencing January 10th. The Harlan Coben thriller series, based on his novel of the same name, has continued to climb the list week after week and remains in the […]
Standards body the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has confirmed that the Fórum Sistema Brasileiro TV Digital Terrestre (SBTVD Forum) has recommended to the Brazilian government the selection of several technologies proposed by ATSC for Brazil’s next-generation terrestrial digital television standard. The ATSC 3.0 elements selected by the SBTVD Forum, and others still under consideration, […]
VOD.PL establishes itself as the go-to platform for super-aggregation of online video content. With the latest update the service offers consumers an intuitive guide for the content scattered across different streaming applications. The super-aggregation feature is powered by the Redge Media OTT platform which handles the metadata from all the different sources. The platform now […]
Users engage with their mobile phones as much as ever, with overall session and install numbers remaining consistent, but the apps they engage with shift for a few weeks, reports app marketing specialist Adjust. Someone who typically uses a health and fitness app every day might take a break and gravitate toward food delivery, and […]
Synamedia’s CTO, Nick Thexton, and Simon Brydon, Synamedia’s Senior Director, Security Business Development – Sports, have shared their industry thoughts on the year ahead. Their 2022 predictions include: Rethinking recommendations In the seminal Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy we found an answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. However, fans will recall that the enigmatic […]
A textbook launch by SpaceX saw an additional 49 Starlink satellites placed into their transfer orbits on January 18th. Despite a technical delay the rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center pad at 21.02 Florida time. The Falcon 9’s booster landed some 9 minutes later on the floating drone-ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’. This […]