The UK’s creative industries have launched an advertising and consumer engagement campaign to promote a new education initiative – Get it Right from a Genuine Site. Its aim is to encourage respect for the value of creativity in the UK and to boost consumer awareness and use of the wide range of legal sources of […]

Frank Skinner On Demand With …, a new weekly talk show, is coming exclusively to BBC iPlayer from 13 November. Host Frank Skinner will be joined each week by a different celebrity guest to hear about the weird and wonderful programmes they are enjoying on BBC iPlayer and why – from hidden gems to guilty […]

Last week’s Arabsat-sponsored conference in Marrakesh heard some heavyweight criticism from broadcasters and industry officials regarding the deliberate – and massive – piracy of exclusive content by channels transmitting from Nilesat or Eutelsat-controlled frequencies. While Eutelsat is leasing the majority of these frequencies to ‘virtual satellite operators’ Noorsat and GulfSat, senior executives from MBC, Rotana, […]

Middle East and North Africa Internet streaming service ICFLIX has partnered with Sony to make movies and TV series from ICFLIX available to be streamed instantly to TVs via the PlayStation3 and PlayStation4 consoles. The ICFLIX offering will include the latest popular Jazwood series as Al Sayeda Al Oula, Seerat Hob, Bent Al Shahbandar, Alwan […]

End-to-end video entertainment provider and #TelcoTV specialist Netgem has added international news service France 24 to its channel line-up. Three different 24-hour news channels delivered through the service are immediately available to customers of Netgem-enabled EE TV in the UK and Videofutur in France, and will be on live and on-demand in Australia by the […]

Globosat, part of the Globo TV group, says it will be offering 16 pay-TV HD channels from next year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games  to viewers in Brazil, but with a total of 40 channels from the Games available to web-based consumers. The 40 on-line channels will be carried on Globosat’s own website and their […]

Voddler Group, the cloud-streaming innovator, and Vubiquity, a provider of premium content services, have entered into a long-term partnership to allow Vubiquity to use Voddler’s next-generation distribution network. The partnership will enable the delivery of video content to consumers in Asia, particularly in regions with poor or low connectivity. The partnership leverages Voddler’s VoddlerNet, a […]

SBS will dish up a 24/7 menu of everyday food inspiration when it launches its new television channel dedicated to the world of food on November 17th. The new channel, Food Network, will be available to all Australians across the country for free. SBS Managing Director Michael Ebeid commented: “SBS has a proud reputation for […]

Viaccess-Orca, a global player in the protection and enhancement of content services, has announced Adaptive Sentinel, a new converged card and cardless conditional access system (CAS) that offers the best of both worlds and an unprecedented ease of transition between the two technologies, unified over an end-to-end solution architecture. Cardless security guarantees a fast and […]

YouTube has released details of its widely-anticipated ad-free subscription service. Writing in the YouTube blog, Matt Leske, Product Manager, says that for years, YouTube’s fans have been telling it they want more—more choice when watching their favourite content, more ways to support their favourite creators and, above all, the option to watch their favourite videos […]