The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for “personal reasons”. Tom Alexander, who will leave the chief executive role on 31 August, said he wished “to pursue other interests”. He will be replaced by Olaf Swantee, who is currently executive vice president at […]
GlobeCast has announced that it is on-site at the Tour de France to provide the French national broadcaster France Télévisions with a complete solution to broadcast every stage of the race. GlobeCast vehicles and teams are present from Saturday, July 2 to Sunday, July 24 to deliver live coverage of the world-renowned cycling competition. Each […]
Summer vacations are almost upon us, but Hamlet never rests. It’s our 25th Anniversary at IBC this year, so why not check out our latest instruments – it’s your party! Hamlet are very pleased to announce, that the NEW, award winning DigiScope DS900 test, measurement, monitoring and multi-viewer is now shipping. With orders to complete […]
TV One adds the 1T-MX-4355 VGA Matrix Routing Switcher to the growing TV One-task product line. The 1T-MX-4355 is a 5×5 VGA Matrix Switcher with Audio is designed to allow distribution of five VGA sources (or YPbPr, CV SV with appropriate cable adapters) to five devices independently or all at the same time, while also […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed it is responding to calls from Congress and investigating whether the News of the World hacked into the mobile phones of the relatives of victims of 9/11. It is also being called on to look into the accusations News Corp executives bribed police in the UK as this […]
In an unprecedented move, public broadcaster RTVE, Mediaset Spain, owner of commercial TV channels Tele 5 and Cuatro and operator of other DTT channels like Fiction Factory, La Siete, Boing and Divinity, and telco Telefonica have entered into an alliance to trial a joint HbbTV service. The service will allow the viewer to have access […]
J&T Group, a Czech-Slovak private equity company, is planning to sell the satellite TV channel Skylink, Czech newspaper E15 has reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with the matter. Several telecommunication companies including T-Mobile Czech already filed bids to purchase the channel, which could be valued at more than 1 billion koruna ($58 million), the […]
Rupert and James Murdoch dramatically changed their minds and dropped their resistance to appearing before the Media Select Committee next Tuesday. The Committee had taken the very unusual step of issuing a Parliamentary Summons. Meanwhile, on Friday morning after two weeks of support from the Murdochs, Rebekah Brooks, CEO News International has resigned. She said: “I […]
24-hour Arabic (and English-language) news channel Al Jazeera is being legally restructured. A statement from its Doha headquarters says the operation is to have a comprehensive review, and its legal status will change. The news comes ahead of promised expansion into Turkish, Swahili and Balkan versions. The name change is subtle, as is the broadcasting […]
News Corp and Permira, the European private equity group, have hired banks to arrange a New York listing of digital pay-TV technology specialist NDS, which they jointly own, reports the FT. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been appointed to assist with the Initial Public Offering, following meetings in New York in recent […]