The BBC has appointed Matt Grest to be the corporation’s new Director of Platform. Grest will join from Sky where he was most recently Sky’s director of digital platforms, with responsibility for web and mobile across Sports, News, Sky.com and Intranet. He has also led on the creation and expansion of Sky’s new Digital Hub […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has welcomed the vote by the European Parliament’s Industry Committee on the long-term future of the UHF frequencies. The vote validates an EU interinstitutional agreement on access to UHF spectrum below 700 MHz for terrestrial TV broadcasting until at least 2030. Public service media make their channels available on all […]
UK communications regulator Ofcom has published several procedural consultations as part of its preparations for regulating the BBC. Ofcom is also taking the opportunity to seek stakeholder views on proposed changes to its current procedures for handling content standards and broadcast licensing investigations and sanctions. Procedures for enforcement of BBC Competition requirements This consultation covers […]
Cord-cutter consumer research from Parks Associates shows the percentage of US broadband households that use only antennas to receive TV has steadily increased since 2013 to reach 15 per cent. The firm’s report, 360 View: Entertainment Services in U.S. Broadband Households, reveals this increase coincides with a drop in pay-TV subscriptions and an increase in […]
BBC Director-General Tony Hall has said the corporation needs to reinvent its on-demand iPlayer service to make the leap from a catch-up service to a “must-visit” destination in its own right in the face of rapid growth by its competitors such as Netflix. In a wide-ranging New Year message to BBC staff on ‘Reinventing the […]
The European Commission is referring Spain to the Court of Justice under Article 108(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The move follows Spain’s failure to recover subsidies it granted to finance the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT) in remote areas of, respectively, Castilla-la-Mancha and the rest […]
BT Sport is to offer a free simulcast of the NBA Global Game between the Denver Nuggets and Indiana Pacers on January 12th to fans across the UK on Facebook, Freeview and Virgin Media. It will be the first time an NBA game will be shown live on Facebook in the UK. Fans will be […]
Sony Pictures Television’s portfolio of kids’ channels is launching a catch-up service on UK Internet TV platform YouView from January 10th. Following YouView’s recent announcement of a re-engineering and redesign of the entire platform, Sony Kids is the first player to launch since the roll out of the new software. Sony Kids brings together Sony’s […]
Multichannel broadcaster UKTV is predicting it will register record-breaking growth in share of commercial impacts (SOCI) across the last 12 months. UKTV is projecting 7.7 per cent growth of its SOCI to a record year-end high of 9.87 per cent, putting it ahead of Channel 5’s full portfolio and all of Sky’s wholly-owned channels (including movies […]
Tele 5, operated by Mediaset, leads the ratings for the fifth consecutive year with an average share of 14.4 per cent, followed by Antena 3, owned by Atresmedia with 12.8 per cent and public TV channel La 1 with 10.1 per cent, according to the consultancy firm Barlovento Comunicación Public Regional channels got the worst […]