In light of the ongoing pandemic, broadband and media exhibition ANGA COM, scheduled for June 8th to 10th in Cologne, is to be postponed to 2022. The new date is May 10th to 12th 2022. The 2020 edition was also cancelled because of the pandemic. A new online congress – ANGA COM DIGITAL – featuring […]
California-based MobiTV, known for its live and on-demand TV services, has voluntarily entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy reconstruction. MobiTV is a wireless delivery supplier for many US telcos including T-Mobile. MobiTV says it will continue to operate and to serve its customers and has secured $15.5 million of fresh (Debtor in Possession) funding in order to […]
South Africa’s public broadcaster, SABC, wants the government to create a “household tax” on every home to fund its activities. “The current TV licence fee system should be scrapped and replaced with a device-independent, tech-neutral household levy for public broadcasting, which would levy all households, with exemption for the indigent and discounts for pensioners,” said […]
New Zealand (and Los Angeles)-based RocketLab is to merge itself with a SPAC (Special Purchase Acquisition Company) called Vector and which will eventually list on the NASDAQ exchange (as RKLB). RocketLab launches rockets from New Zealand. Founded in 2006 by Peter Beck the company has also built a launch facility at Wallops Island, Virginia, US. […]
ODMedia, the international provider of digital media services and content licensing, has announced the expansion of its European footprint with the opening of a new office in France. Based in Paris, the office will be headed up by industry veteran Vladimir Gasic. With offices in the UK, Germany, Spain, Poland, Benelux, South Africa, Scandinavia, and […]
China Advertising Association (CAA) and the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) – an advertising industry self-regulatory initiative to fight criminal activity and promote brand safety in the digital advertising supply chain – have launched TAG’s international standards in the Chinese market. Building on the initial TAG-CAA collaboration from April 2020, the standards – in particular TAG’s […]
ITV Studios has increases its stake in Danish production company, Apple Tree Productions, from 25 per cent to 51 per cent. The agreement will see the label, founded by Executive Producer Piv Bernth and former DR Deputy Head of Drama and producer Lars Hermann, become a more integral part of ITV Studios. Since its launch […]
The technicians at Maxar Technologies might never know precisely what happened to SXM-7; the pay-radio operator’s satellite that was launched on December 13th and was working perfectly, yet failed a few weeks later on January 16th. Maxar, in releasing its Q4 and full year numbers, admitted that it would be absorbing some direct costs associated […]
Sami Kassab, satellite analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP, says that Covid-19 was not helping SES achieve its target revenue numbers, but the 9 per cent tumble in SES Video was the worst quarter of the year, and a worry. In a report to clients, Kassab recognised that SES had signed new and renewed orders worth […]
Fast-growing African telco Liquid Telecom has raised 12.4 billion Rand (about €700 million) in a bond sale. The company, backed by telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa (who also sits on Netflix’s main board) and who heads up the Econet business, says it will use the fresh funds to refinance existing debt and expand its broadband business […]