The Indian Broadcasting Foundation – the industry association which represents and is dedicated to the promotion of television broadcasting in, to and from India – has called on the Indian Government to grant Infrastructure Status for the Broadcast and Content Distribution Sector to realise the mission of ‘Total Digitisation’ in the Country. The call came […]
Following the 2013 raid of five homes in the Netherlands cities of Apeldoorn, Enschede, Vlagtwedde and the Hague which resulted in the 2015 convictions of two pirates, a further three pirates arrested during these raids have been sentenced at the Zutphen courthouse. Two defendants received 200 hours of community service and three months of conditional […]
Executives at UK news producer ITN say that the company’s increased focus on third-party productions will drive higher revenue levels in the coming years, proving that ITN is not simply “the news department of ITV”. In conversation with the Broadcasting Press Guild at ITN’s central London HQ, John Hardie, ITN’s CEO, made the assertion, suggesting […]
Motors TV’s Founder, Jean-Luc Roy, has suggested that it will be ‘business-as-usual with benefits’ for the service’s audiences and suppliers following its acquisition by Motorsport Network. Motors TV has re-affirmed that its current operations will continue unchanged, but that the new ownership would provide significant opportunities for the company’s audiences and business partners alike. Roy […]
Pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness, The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm are collaborating to inspire audiences to choose cinema in a new trailer for IP awareness tied in with the first Star Wars standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The campaign launches with a 35” exclusive trailer featuring […]
The European Commission’s vision of a ‘Gigabit Society’ by 2025 will require investors in broadband networks to deploy a range of technologies when connecting homes and businesses to ultra-fast broadband, including G.Fast, fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP), DOCSIS and 5G, according to an independent report by media and telecoms consultancy, Communications Chambers, commissioned by international TV and broadband […]
North America will have 112 million SVoD subscribers [for movie and TV services only – excluding sports, for example] by end-2016, up by 19 million on 2015. The SVoD total is forecast to climb to 138 million by 2021. However, the North America SVoD Forecasts report from Digital TV Research only
After consideration of the Commercial Requirements for ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) Multicast presented to the 84th meeting of the DVB Steering Board (SB), the decision was made to commit the Technical Module to produce a specification. The scope of the work will pave the way to providing a harmonised solution to the problem of transmitting […]
Video services provider Simplestream has been selected by A+E Networks UK to provide TV Everywhere distribution services for its new UK free-to-air channel Blaze. Blaze is a free-to-air channel that debuted in the UK and Ireland on 20 September 2016 on Freeview and Sky with programming that includes American Restoration, The First 48, Mountain Men, […]
OTT viewing experience specialist Conviva and research consultancy nScreenMedia have revealed the findings of what they say is an industry-first research study analysing how viewers’ online streaming habits are impacted by devices, content type, location, and viewing quality. The study – The Secret Life of Streamers: Devices, Content, Location, and Quality – is based on […]