An investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that Google is using anti-competitive practices in open-display ad tech, which it believes could be harming thousands of UK publishers and advertisers. As set out in a statement of objections issued to Google, the CMA has provisionally found that, when placing digital […]
Welsh TV producers trade body TAC has published its submission to Ofcom’s further consultation on the Channel 4 licence. Ofcom originally consulted on Channel 4’s 10-year licence late in 2023 and has now issued a second consultation on the idea of raising Channel 4’s Made out of England (MoE) quota, from 9 per cent to 12 per […]
Reports from India say that the various permissions for direct-from-satellite broadband services are again awaiting action. India’s authoritative Financial Express (FE) says that the country’s department of telecommunications (DoT) is unlikely to issue any provisional or interim spectrum to companies such as Eutelsat OneWeb and Jio to commercially roll out their satellite internet services soon. […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom is proposing to grant an earth station network licence to Amazon Kuiper Services Europe SARL (Kuiper) for its non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite system, which is also known as ‘Kuiper’. This would authorise it to deploy user terminals (the dishes and antennas used by customers to connect to an NGSO satellite system) […]
UK MPs have begun the process of electing a Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the new Parliament. The Speaker announced the timetable for the elections on July 30th. The period of nominations will run until 4pm on Monday September 9th, with the ballot scheduled for Wednesday September 11th. The new Chair […]
Cellnex, the Spanish domestic broadcasting agency, is taking regulatory body CNMC to Spain’s Constitutional Court to content a €13.7 million fine for abuse of its dominant position. The company has already unsuccessfully appealed against the sanction before several courts. In December 2023, the Supreme Court rejected the last appeal that the company filed. The legal […]
Subhash Chandra, chairman emeritus of Zee Entertainment, alleges the recent merger plan between Zee and Sony was deliberately scuppered by the Securities & Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) chairwoman Madhabi Puri Buch. In hard hitting comments, Chandra said he was taking legal advice against Puri Buch as he is convinced that the “SEBI Chairperson is […]
The Walt Disney Company and US satellite TV provider DirecTV have failed to reach a new distribution deal for ESPN, ABC and other Disney-owned networks, resulting in more than 11 million DirecTV subscribers across the US losing access to those networks on September 1st. The expiry of the prior deal, which was signed in 2019, […]
Content creators on Twitch are labelling mature content much more accurately after the platform changed its content classification guidelines in June 2023, according to an evaluation of the measure by Ofcom. Content creators on the streaming platform must now apply content classification labels to tell viewers if the content they are about to watch contains […]
Comments made by critics of Brazil’s government on X has resulted in Starlink being banned in the country. There are a reported 250,000 users of Starlink in Brazil, and Elon Musk says that SpaceX will continue to support them and not charge a monthly fee while the dispute continues. Musk said: “SpaceX and X are […]