Ampere Analysis has published revised forecasts for global box office revenues in 2020, now just 25 per cent of the original estimate made in January, showing the devastating effect of coronavirus on the sector. At the start of 2020, Ampere forecast annual gross box office revenue of $44.5 billion (€37.1bn) globally, a stark contrast to […]
Smart Home Services specialist Plume has acquired Walleye Networks, a Canadian network and security intelligence solutions provider specialising in real-time network analytics and advanced metadata. The transaction includes all of Walleye Networks’ intellectual property, technology and Research and Development (R&D) facility, in addition to its engineering team. Plume intends to further invest in Walleye Networks’ […]
Psychological drama series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, has proven a big hit for Sky. The opening episode reached a cumulative 28-day audience of over 2.78 million viewers, making it bigger than the launch of Game of Thrones in 2011. The first three episodes already have audiences of over 2.5 million viewers, […]
Gigaclear, the rural broadband provider, has officially launched its Community Hub Scheme which aims to provide free broadband to critical community services. Some 137 of Gigaclear’s Community Hubs are already connected to its ultrafast network, but all areas in which Gigaclear is building are encouraged to apply for the initiative. The company, which has continued […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has added a range international series to its Viaplay streaming service. The line-up of new international series launching immediately in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland includes: ‘La Unidad’ (Spain); action; season 1 (6 episodes), season 2 in 2021 ‘An Ordinary Woman’ (Russia); dramedy; season 1 […]
BBC Studios has published its UK Pay Gap Report (PGR) for 2019/20. saying it shows “good progress in reducing its gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps”. The report also voluntarily discloses BBC Studios bonus pay gaps by ethnicity, disability and sexuality for the first time, as well as more detail on the three payment types […]
Inverto, a supplier of broadcast reception equipment. has become the first company to pass DTG Testing and CAI’s newly launched European-wide assurance scheme for TV and Satellite distribution equipment known as the European IRS Certification Scheme (EICS). The first scheme of its kind, it will ‘provide reassurance of end-to-end device compatibility, interoperability and robust RF […]
Following the success of the The Real Housewives of Cheshire series, ITV is launching a new version of the franchise, The Real Housewives of Jersey. The ten-part series will launch in December on ITVBe and, in a first for the ITV Hub, the entire series will be available to watch as a Box Set on […]
SES Government Solutions (SES GS) has been awarded an Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) tests contract that allows to compete for individual task orders that together have a ceiling value of $950,000,000. The agreement is aimed at achieving the maturation, demonstration and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains, leveraging open systems design, modern software […]
Irdeto has announced the launch of Keys & Credentials for Routers – an OEM-independent managed service offered to the ISP industry for their Broadband Customer Premise Equipment (CPE). As ISPs roll-out smarter CPE to deliver new revenue-generating cloud services, security threats and IoT attacks increase in an already attractive space for hackers and cyber pirates. […]