Netflix has given Paramount TV’s 13 Reasons Why, executive produced by Selena Gomez, a straight-to-series order. The show, based on the New York Times bestselling YA book by Jay Asher, was created by Pulitzer Prize winner Brian Yorkey, who also wrote the pilot. 13 Reasons Why is the second Netflix straight to order series for […]
Nova, the largest pay-TV platform in Greece, has partnered with Fox International Channels to provide an unprecedented range of international sporting events and sports programming to all Nova 3Play subscribers. Fox Sports HD, available for the first time in Greece, is available effective immediately on channel 314 of Nova’s bouquet. Programming will include: · NFL (from […]
UPC Broadband Slovakia has extended the FilmBox Premium HD pack with three new thematic HD channels from the SPI International/FilmBox portfolio. The FilmBox Premium HD pack features Fast’nFunBox HD, DocuBox HD and EroXXX HD in addition to the current channel line-up containing FilmBox Premium, FilmBox Family, FilmBox Plus, FilmBox Extra HD and FightBox HD, raising […]
Twickenham is the largest stadium in the world devoted solely to rugby union. Ahead of 2015 the RFU set a clear objective to deliver a state-of-the-art, connected stadium that would ultimately benefit the fans. The RFU set out to invest £76 million into the stadium upgrade project and it has seen significant modernisations to the […]
BT’s TV service has reported its best ever quarter with its coverage of Champions League football proving to be a major draw. The telco giant, which paid £900 million (€1.255bn) to grab the exclusive TV rights from pay-TV operator Sky and commercial pubcaster ITV, signed up 106,000 new TV customers in the three months to […]
Marcus Arthur, the BBC executive in charge of BBC Store, has confirmed that the download-to-own (DTO) service will launch in November. Speaking at the PEVE Entertainment Business Futures 2015 Conference in London, Arthur, Director BBC Store as well as President, BBC Worldwide UK and ANZ, was unwilling to divulge an exact date in advance of […]
Broadband operator Fastweb has become the first Internet Service Provider in Italy to activate new IPv6 connections for its customers. All new Fastweb customers in Ancona, Bari, Bergamo, Brescia, Busto Arsizio, Legnano, Livorno, Monza, Padua, Pescara, Pisa, Reggio Emilia, Varese and Verona will get IPv6 addresses. The service will be available in Milan by the […]
The fifth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple by the end of 2019, from 2.1 to 8.6 zettabytes (ZB), outpacing the growth of total global data centre traffic, which is forecast to triple during the same time frame (from 3.4 to 10.4 ZB). Several factors are driving […]
Samsung has unveiled a 11.3 trillion won ($9.9 billion) share buyback after reporting its first year-on-year profit growth in two years thanks to strong component sales, pushing its shares sharply higher. Samsung said it would cancel all shares purchased through the buyback, its biggest to date, and planned to give shareholders 30 percent to 50 […]
Sony Corp returned to profit in the last quarter showing its marathon restructuring is beginning to produce results. It reported a 33.6 billion yen ($278 million) profit for the second quarter, compared with a loss of 136 billion a year earlier. Sales dropped 0.5 percent to 1.89 trillion yen ($15.6 billion). Sony’s Xperia mobile phones […]