Sportian, the sports division of Globant, is partnering with martial arts organisation ONE Championship to protect its content against piracy. Using Globant Sportian’s Content Protection services, an evolution of the services originally developed by La Liga, illegal broadcasts can be detected in real-time and tracked across streaming sites, apps, VoD platforms, search engines, social media, […]

The UK Culture Secretary is to challenge the TV industry to commission and make more shows outside London and the South East. In her Royal Television Society convention keynote address, Lisa Nandy will say that broadcasters must be more ambitious in continuing to grow the UK’s world-leading TV sector beyond London and the South East, […]

DirecTV and The Walt Disney Company have announced “an agreement in principle” that has seen Disney’s full linear suite of networks restored to DirecTV, DirecTV Stream and U-verse customers in the US while both parties work to finalise a new, multi-year contract. DirecTV had dropped all Disney channels on September 1st after failing to agree […]

Consumers must be told in clear terms about the technology that underpins their broadband service when signing up to a new deal, under new Ofcom guidance for providers that comes into force today [September 16th]. Full-fibre networks are currently being deployed at pace, meaning customers are increasingly able to choose from a range of different […]

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found the proposed merger between telcos Vodafone and Three to be likely to reduce competition in the sector. In its initial investigation (called a ‘Phase 1 investigation’) which began in January 2024, the CMA found that the merger, which combines two of the four mobile network […]

The Italian Competition Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) has opened an in-depth investigation (Phase II) to assess the acquisition of Vodafone Italia by Swisscom under Italy’s merger control rules. According to Swisscom, Phase II reviews are not uncommon in the telecommunications sector. Swisscom remains convinced that the transaction is pro-competitive. It says […]

UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has published the renewed broadcast licences for Channel 3 (ITV/STV) and Channel 5, securing public service broadcasting on these channels for a further ten years. Ofcom describes ITV, STV and Channel 5 as an important part of the PSB system, alongside the BBC, Channel 4 and S4C. “Each of the public […]

The new Chair of the UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee is Dame Caroline Dinenage. She was the sole nomination, and has therefore been elected, unopposed. She held the position in the previous parliament. “I’m delighted to be re-elected to chair the Culture, Media and Sport Committee and entrusted to build on our […]

The US Department of Justice DoJ is  “intervening early” to explore whether a handful of big techs are unfairly dominating the AI market, according to a report in The WSJ. According to the paper, targets of the early stage probe include the chip maker NVIDIA which is said to “own” more than 80 per cent […]

The Federal Communications Commissioners (FCC) are due to meet and vote on September 26th to potentially free up extra bandwidth for satellite communications. FCC chair Jessice Rosenworcel has written saying that freeing up 1,300 MHz in the 17 GHz band (17.3-17.8 GHz) for high-throughput satellite communications would “facilitate the deployment of high-speed broadband and other […]