Technicolor has announced its results for the full year 2020. Richard Moat, Chief Executive Officer of Technicolor, commented: “Technicolor has re-engineered its operations, balance sheet and global footprint and has exceeded its guidance for 2020. Connected Home beat the targets originally set before the crisis began, but Production Services and DVD Services were hit by […]
The BBC has set out its ambition to ‘build commercial income’ – one of four top priorities set out by Tim Davie in his first week as Director-General, and now underway to modernise the BBC and offer better value to every licence fee payer. As well as an ambition to build commercial income, these priorities […]
Eutelsat Communications has confirmed the appointment of Juan Pablo Cofino as Regional Vice President – CEO of Eutelsat Americas. He joins Eutelsat from Intelsat where he was Regional Vice President, LatAm & Caribbean. He brings to Eutelsat over 20 years’ industry experience and a track record of value-generation, having previously occupied senior international executive positions […]
Dublin-based Solas OLED has won a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display and Samsung Electronics America for “wilfully infringing patents” owned by Solas. A jury trial at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found against Samsung for two patents (US patent numbers 7,446,338 and 9,256,311) and which were claimed to […]
Alchimie, an OTT SVoD platform featuring original and exclusive thematic channels published jointly with media groups and talents, has announced the acquisition of the publishing assets of TV4 Entertainment, a global player in OTT streaming channels. Through this operation, Alchimie is acquiring a portfolio of nearly ten thematic SVoD channels, such as Motorland (Motors), DocComTV […]
Nokia has signed a patent licence agreement with Samsung, which covers the use of Nokia’s innovations in video standards. Under the agreement, Samsung will make royalty payments to Nokia. The terms of the agreement remain confidential. Jenni Lukander, President of Nokia Technologies, said: “We are delighted to have reached an agreement with Samsung which further […]
Mobile operators will begin bidding in the UK’s next spectrum auction from Friday March 12th, comms regulator Ofcom has confirmed. A total of 200 MHz of spectrum is being released through the auction, which will help improve existing mobile services and also support the continued rollout of 5G across the UK. After a pause in […]
Vivendi is being sued for €1 billion in damages in an action which alleges that the media giant made false statements during its merger with Seagram and Canal+ some two decades ago. Ninety investors (represented by law firm Soffer Avocats) allege that top executives failed to fully disclose the total extent of Vivendi’s debt. The […]
South Africa has postponed its spectrum auction yet again. This time the reason was a legal objection from the telco provider, Telkom, and broadcaster, e.tv, who secured a ruling from the nation’s high court to pause the auction. Judge Selby Baqwa has now placed an interdict on regulator ICASA. The auction was supposed to happen […]
Shane Allen, Director, BBC Comedy Commissioning has appointed Tanya Qureshi as Commissioning Editor, BBC Comedy. As Commissioning Editor, she will be responsible for a slate of programmes as well as developing her own portfolio of new shows. Qureshi started her career in commissioning at UKTV, primarily focused on scripted comedy across Dave and Gold. She […]