As the new season warms up for kick-off, research from comms regulator Ofcom reveals the scale of personal attacks suffered by Premier League footballers every day on Twitter, and sets out what must be done collectively to tackle the issue. Ofcom, which is preparing to regulate tech giants under new online safety laws, teamed up […]
Members of the French Senate, the country’s upper legislative chamber, have approved government legislation abolishing the country’s TV licence fee. The house voted in favour of the legislation 196 votes to 147. The move follows a July vote in the lower house. The decision to axe the fee follows an election promise by President Emmanuel […]
The European Commission (EC) has written to EU member states and the industry in general inviting them to submit their assessments as to how the EC’s future proposed satellite system can be implemented and – importantly – be financed. The probability is that either a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) or Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) scheme […]
Serbia’s Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) has renewed the broadcasting licences of the four existing national commercial TV broadcasters Pink, Prva, Happy and B92. The broadcasting regulator said that, as a result of the large interest in the tender, it has decided to offer a fifth commercial TV licence. Besides the four winners, there […]
The EU has firmly ruled out the proposed Eutelsat/OneWeb merger as qualifying as the likely candidate for the EU’s own planned Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) broadband constellation. As reported by Sami Kassab, satellite analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP, Christophe Grudler, the member of the European Parliament in charge of the EU’s LEO satellite project announced […]
The US’s Federal Communications Commission has opened bidding in its latest mid-band spectrum auction to support next generation wireless services – including 5G. Auction 108 makes available 8,017 new flexible-use, county-based overlay licences in the 2.5 GHz band. These licences are in areas with unassigned 2.5 GHz spectrum—mostly rural parts of the country—following disposition of […]
Three Scottish pubs have been identified by the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), the professional game’s governing body, in a crackdown on unauthorised live football streaming The SPFL has taken action by working with rightsholder Sky to prevent illicit broadcasts being shown in pubs and other licensed premises. The SPFL has won injunctions to stop […]
The Communications and Digital Committee of the UK’s House of Lords – Parliament’s upper legislative chamber – is launching an inquiry into the future of the UK’s creative industries. The Committee notes that there are major changes on the horizon for the UK’s creative industries. These are shaped by a range of national and global […]
Five individuals have been charged for unlawfully distributing Internet Protocol television (IPTV) following an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The investigation, dubbed Project OLoki, began in January 2020, and focused on a group of individuals who were running a large-scale unlawful IPTV distribution service. It is alleged the group purchased legitimate media services […]
In the framework of the review of the proposed merger between Groupe TF1 and Groupe M6, the case team of the French competition authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) has issued its report. In the report, which does not prejudge the final decision by the Board (Collège) of the authority, the case team considers that the […]