Ofcom has published the provisional conclusions of its assessments of the BBC’s plans to launch four new DAB+ stations and extend the hours of Radio 5 Sports Extra. In November 2024, the BBC published proposals to launch four new DAB+ stations: Radio 1 Dance, Radio 1 Anthems, a Radio 2 extension, and Radio 3 Unwind. […]
Anti-piracy coalition the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has confirmed that member company DISH Network has filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas against the operators of the illegal streaming service known as Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV. The lawsuit was coordinated by IBCAP. The service, also […]
Due to antitrust concerns raised by the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC), the targeted advertising platform Playce will be suspended from May 1st. This platform – used by major telecom operators including Meo, Nos and Vodafone – allowed for non-skippable pre-roll 30-second ads to play on set-top boxes before recorded TV programmes. The AdC initiated proceedings […]
Germany is paying for extra satellite coverage over Ukraine by securing capacity on Eutelsat. Reportedly, this has been going on quietly behind the scenes for almost a year, designed to secure extra bandwidth for Ukraine’s military as an alternate to Elon Musk’s Starlink system. According to a Reuters report, Eutelsat’s CEO, Eva Berneke, revealed that […]
Ericsson and Lenovo have reached a settlement to resolve their patent licensing dispute over a multi-year, global patent cross-licence agreement between the two companies. As part of the settlement, all ongoing lawsuits and administrative proceedings filed by both companies in several countries will be withdrawn. Financial impacts are expected to be recognised from Q2 2025, […]
The AVMSD Directive could be reopened in 2026, and is the subject of a Netflix appeal in Belgium, but it is being implemented in 14 countries, according to French public funding organisation CNC. All implementations are similar to the voluntary French regulation which became the first to be enacted in 2020. Revealed at Series Mania […]
European broadcasters, through the Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe (ACT), the Association of European Radios (AER) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which represent both commercial and public service broadcasters as well as video-on-services operators, have called on the Member States of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related […]
A federal judge in New York has thwarted the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the US international broadcaster Voice of America (VoA), calling the move a “classic case of arbitrary and capricious decision making.” Judge James Paul Oetken blocked the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which runs Voice of America, from axing some 1,300 […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom is consulting on proposed updates to its satellite filings procedures, which are the processes for obtaining internationally recognised orbits and frequency assignments for satellites. Before a satellite can use the radio spectrum and orbits it needs, it requires an associated ‘satellite filing’ to obtain international recognition of these resources through the […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons is to question Channel 4 Chief Executive Alex Mahon and Chair Sir Ian Cheshire on the work of the broadcaster. The regular scrutiny session on April 1st will give MPs the chance to examine Channel 4’s performance and its role as one of the UK’s […]