Broadcast Networks Europe (BNE) – the trade organisation for terrestrial broadcast network operators for radio and TV in Europe – has welcomed the key commitments in favour of terrestrial broadcasting from the Parliament, the Council and the Commission in the political agreement announced ahead of the final UHF Band decision: TV broadcasting will retain priority […]
Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has entered into a $161 million (€155m) satellite procurement agreement with Boeing Satellite Systems International for a new craft – AMOS-17 – expected to be launched in 2019. The satellite will operate from 17°E and will expand and strengthen Spacecom’s coverage of the growing satellite service markets in […]
Security researchers at advertising fraud protection and human verification specialist White Ops have exposed the most profitable and advanced ad fraud operation ever seen by the industry. Dubbed ‘The Methbot Operation’ after references to ‘meth’ in the code of the bot itself, this single group of Russian-based operators is stealing as much as $3 million-$5 […]
Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe has been appointed Commercial Secretary (Minister of State) at Her Majesty’s Treasury, having previously been a Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy since July 2016 following the reallocation of ministerial briefs by new Prime Minister Theresa May. She served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at […]
Aliens will suddenly appear on TV across the UK on Boxing Day (December 26th) to announce that they are coming to Earth in the latest TV ad from Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK. The ad, The Broadcast, will premiere on UK broadcast TV on Boxing Day and is the first […]
Audience measurement specialist Nielsen is buying media and entertainment metadata provider Gracenote from the Tribune Media Company for around $560 million (€539.5m). Nielsen says the deal means it acquires the data and technology that underpins the programming guides and personalised user experience for major video, music, audio and sports content. The acquisition extends Nielsen’s footprint […]
Opera Software ASA has sold a controlling stake in Opera TV for to Moore Frères & Company, an investment run by former Viacom execs and focused exclusively on the tech, media, and telecom industries. Opera TV is an independent developer of cloud and embedded software for OTT deployment and major customers are companies such as Sony, Samsung, TiVo, Verizon, […]
Despite having earlier intimated that its intentions were limited to securing a 20 per cent stake in Italian broadcaster Mediaset, French media group Vivendi is ramping up its negotiating position relative to the disagreement between the two parties following a failed pay-TV cooperation. Vivendi has confirmed that its Management Board met has decided, with the […]
The Productivity Commission, the Australian Government’s principal independent review and advisory body on microeconomic policy and regulation, has suggested that timely and cost-effective access to copyright content is the best way to reduce infringement, recommending that the Government should make it easier for users to access legitimate content by clarifying the law on geoblocking. The […]
The latest issue of the informitv Multiscreen Index of 100 leading pay-TV service providers worldwide shows a total quarterly increase of 3.45 million subscribers, up by 0.80 per cent over the third quarter of 2016, compared to 3.74 million or