Following the news on February 1st that broadcast and pay-TV technology provider Motive Television had made TabletTV available on the new Apple TV platform in the US, the firm has now received approval from Apple for its UK App and released TabletTV Freeview for sale and use on the Apple TV platform. TabletTV Freeview for […]
Classic sitcom Keeping Up Appearances is BBC Worldwide’s most frequently bought show over the last four decades, data to mark the 40th anniversary of its Showcase event reveals. The comedy’s first series has been purchased 992 times across the globe since debuting 25 years ago. And it’s not just historic interest from buyers that has […]
Wowza Media Systems, a software and cloud-based services provider, has announced the release of the Wowza GoCoder SDK (software development kit) for end-to-end mobile live video app development. Organisations of any size can now quickly and affordably create their own new and improved apps that incorporate high-quality live video streaming on iOS and Android platforms, […]
Attackers are stealing users’ Netflix credentials and making them available on black markets focused on providing access to the streaming service for cheaper prices, according to cybersecurity specialist Symantec. Writing in the Company Blog, Lionel Payet, Threat Intelligence Officer, notes that the entertainment streaming service’s growing popularity and global expansion has attracted the attention of […]
Free-to-air television coverage of F1 in Spain has ended, according to the Spanish sports daily El Mundo Deportivo which suggests that the 2016 world championship can only be watched by Spaniards who subscribe to Movistar. Terrestrial broadcaster Telecinco dropped its F1 coverage in 2008, with viewership dropping substantially in the years following Spaniard Fernando Alonso’s […]
Apple’s first foray into original programming will star rapper and entrepreneur Dr Dre. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Apple’s debut original series, entitled Vital Signs, is a gritty semi-autobiographical drama featuring Andre Young, a.k.a. Dr Dre. The rap legend is also credited as an executive producer for the show, having previously produced Straight Outta Compton, […]
Viacom International Media Networks is launching its Paramount Channel in Asia in May after signing its first distribution deal in the continent with CTH, a major pay-TV operator in Thailand. “The introduction of Paramount Channel in Asia is a key, strategic step in deepening our presence both in Thailand and in Asia, while expanding our […]
A list of the BBC shows that audiences said they loved the most has thrown up some surprising results. Alongside BBC favourites such as EastEnders, The Great British Bake Off and Strictly Come Dancing, the second most ‘loved’ programme on the BBC iPlayer during the last year was CBBC show The Next Step. The children’s […]
Sky Atlantic will; exclusively air the third series of multi-award-winning comedy series The Trip, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The first two series have aired on BBC2 The Trip to Spain sees Coogan and Brydon’s fictionalised characters back on their culinary quest as they head off on a road […]
Dubai-base Moby Group, best known for a clutch of TV and radio channels beamed into Afghanistan, is to launch a new TV channel in Ethiopia Moby, in which Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has a stake, is entering into a joint-venture with Kana TV. This will be Moby’s first African project, and the business is […]