Expanding its presence in the value chain, Vivendi has acquired 64.4 per cent of the share capital of Radionomy Group, a major global player in the digital radio industry. The Vivendi Group has become Radionomy’s majority shareholder alongside its founder Alexandre Saboundjian, its employees and Union Square Ventures. Radionomy is best known as an Internet […]
Howard Stern has renewed his deal with SiriusXM, the US satellite radio company, for five more years. “I’m very, very proud of this business and what has been accomplished,” Stern said on his show. In addition to extending production of the show, Stern and SiriusXM announced on Tuesday a 12-year deal for further content related […]
A Xerox State of Customer Service in 2015 survey reveals that almost half (49 per cent) of consumers believe that they will not have to pay for their media services by 2025 – regardless if they prefer traditional media (48 per cent) such as film, TV, music, radio, news and sports outlets established in the […]
David Frear, CFO at pay-radio operator SiriusXM, told the Bank of America Merrill Lynch media conference in New York that it was in the initial stages of a ‘Request For Proposals’ ahead of procuring two replacement XM satellites. He told delegates that the two satellites were scheduled to launch in 2019 and 2020 and would […]
French media and TV group NextRadio TV, which owns news and discovery channels BFM TV and RMC Découverte, has received approval from French TV and competition authorities (the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel et Autorité de la Concurrence) for its planned takeover by multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, content and media company Altice. On July 27th, Alain […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM has complained formally to the FCC that T-Mobile’s adoption of new terrestrial frequencies is corrupting SiriusXM’s own radio repeaters. T-Mobile has started using additional frequencies it bought in the FCC-authorised AWS (Additional Wireless Spectrum-3) auctions. SiriusXM claims that the T-Mobile signals, plus its own transmissions, are resulting in a third signal created […]
YouTube has launched a new music streaming app to take on the likes of Deezer and Spotify. Branded ‘YouTube Music’, the app allows users to stream tracks and albums with or without video. YouTube Music will offer a limited free service. Users will be able to listen to tracks and watch videos while online. Those […]
A report released by Common Sense Media finds that teenagers (ages 13-18) use an average of nine hours of entertainment media per day and that tweens (ages 8-12) use an average of six hours a day, not including time spent using media for school or homework. Despite the significant amount of time teens and tweens […]
Al Jazeera English is amongst the first wave of news outlets available on the newly launched Apple TV, providing the global news and programmes live and on demand. Users will be able to save videos for later viewing, access all saved content from the Watch List, have 24-hour access to Al Jazeera’s live video stream […]
Eutelsat is to build a new High-Throughput Satellite especially for sub-Saharan Africa, and to be in place during 2019. The satellite will be a multiple spot-beam craft delivering up to 75 Gb/s of bandwidth, and targeting SMEs in Africa. Moreover Eutelsat has an option with sat-builder Thales Alenia to double up and so accelerate the […]