Intraway Corporation, leading provider of advanced OSS/BSS solutions, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Hamid Qayyum as VP of North America Operations to strengthen Intraway’s position in the region and provide top-notch service to new and current customers. “It is a pleasure for us to welcome Hamid to Intraway,” said Leandro Rzezak, Intraway CEO. […]
NBCUniversal is joining a crowded sector for online movie entertainment by offering its bespoke feature film subscription VoD service PictureBox Films direct to consumers in the UK and Ireland following a radical redesign and major rebrand of the site. The service will compete against players such as Netflix, Amazon-backed LOVEFiLM, KnowHow Movies, supermarket groups such […]
Barb, the official UK TV ratings body, will commence measuring usage of online catch-up services such as the BBC iPlayer, 4oD and Sky Go alongside traditional small screen viewing, from August. The move will provide the first official measurement of the number of viewers downloading or streaming TV shows on PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones. […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has taken the step of putting Greek broadcaster ERT’s news coverage back on air, allowing Greek satellite subscribers to watch NET, the station’s news channel, on television. Until the afternoon of June 13, ERT’s output was only available via a live stream on the EBU website, redirected from ERT’s signal, […]
The European Commission has updated its Digital Agenda Scoreboard, measuring progress with respect to the targets set out in the Digital Agenda. A new study completed by Point Topic shows that whilst nearly all households in Europe could access basic broadband services at the end of 2012, significant challenges still remain in delivering high-speed broadband […]
Global Radio is fighting to keep control of GMG Radio, owner of the Real and Smooth networks, and is submitting an appeal against the competition regulator’s order to sell off stations across the UK. The UK’s largest radio operator, owner of network radio brands including Capital, Heart and Real, intends to make a submission to […]
Spanish company N-Screens is launching its first SVoD channels -K-now, Distanciatv and Encopatv- for a monthly subscription of €2.99 for the whole package, under promotion for free until September. Subscribers will be able to watch the channels through any device connected to the Internet. K-now is dedicated to economy with financial news and analysis about […]
The theme for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2013 – the UK’s pre-eminent high-level gathering of broadcasting executives – has been unveiled. The bi-annual event, which takes place in Cambridge from September 11th – 13th, will ask the question, Whose Side Are you on? Quality Content: Who Pays? Who Decides? Who Profits? This year, Channel 4 […]
Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his third wife, Wendy Deng. The 82 year old says in New York court filing the relationship has irrevocably broken down. The pair have been married for 14 years and his wife gained notoriety in 2011 when she robustly defended her husband from a pie attack while he […]
Michael Lee has been appointed as Managing Director for UPC DTH, the satellite television provider in Central and Eastern Europe located in Luxembourg. UPC DTH delivers satellite television in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania and is part of the Liberty Global group. Lee has been CFO of UPC DTH since 2010. He joined Liberty […]