FOTV Media Networks has confirmed that the FOTV Channel is now available on Roku players and Roku TVs globally. Roku users will now have access to FOTV’s OTT app, which features both LIVE TV and ON DEMAND sections. FOTV’s On-Demand offerings are available for free and are ad-supported, as are most of the live and […]
Apple has introduced the new TV app, offering a unified experience for discovering and accessing TV shows and movies from multiple apps on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad. The TV app provides one place to access TV shows and movies, as well as a place to discover new content to watch. Apple has also introduced […]
The UK’s Intellectual Property Office is calling for views on the European Commission’s draft legislation to modernise the European copyright framework. On 14 September 2016, the European Commission published draft legislation aimed at modernising the European copyright framework. This legislation includes: a draft Regulation on the exercise of copyright and related rights in certain online […]
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) – the international counterpart of the Motion Picture Association of America – has obtained UK High Court Orders requiring the five major UK ISPs to block access to thirteen websites dedicated to making copyright infringing material available for free on a large scale. The blocks are set to go live […]
The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) – a trade grouping that supports and represents those who build the nuts and bolts of the Internet – has submitted a comment in the form of a letter for the 2016 Special 301 Out of Cycle Review of Notorious Markets (a term used in the United States to describe […]
BT has added 63,000 TV customers in Q2, bringing its total to 1.7 million. The telco says that at BT Sport, it is benefiting from a new Saturday early evening slot for Premier League matches, with better viewing figures than last year. BT Sport programme rights charges were up 54 per cent mainly as a […]
Nearly a fifth of Latin America’s TV households will pay for an SVoD package by 2021, up from 10.9 per cent by end-2016, according to the Latin America SVOD Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Mexico (28.3 per cent), Chile (23.9 per cent) and Argentina (23.5 per cent) will have the highest penetration rates by […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat and Abu Dhabi-based Yahsat have signed a multi-year capacity agreement giving Broadband for Africa, Eutelsat’s African broadband venture, access to high-performance commercial Ka-band capacity for broadband services across Sub-Saharan Africa. The deal means that the initiative between Eutelsat and Facebook leveraging satellite technologies to get more Africans online is now back on […]
In what has been described as “a defining moment” for the future of television in the US, a local TV station in Cleveland is ushering in the era of Next Gen TV broadcasting with the first live ATSC 3.0 broadcast of a major professional sporting event – Major League Baseball’s World Series. Using the newly-standardised […]
Suggesting that their partnership offers improved cross-media comparability for TV and digital ad campaigns and enhanced monetisation opportunities, streaming platform specialist Roku and cross-platform measurement company comScore have confirmed that Roku will be the first streaming platform to enable syndicated measurement of video advertising through comScore validated Campaign Essential (vCE). Publishers and advertisers that choose […]