Vualto, global specialists in content delivery and management, has signed an exclusive UK reseller agreement with Belgian company OpenTelly to incorporate THEOplayer into its video delivery solutions. THEOplayer from OpenTelly is a fully HTML5 based player that allows a common streaming format, such as Apple’s HLS (HTTP live streaming), to play on a wide range […]
Americans are now spending almost as much on smartphone and tablet entertainment as at the box office. In 2014, SNL Kagan estimates mobile entertainment generated $9.14 billion in revenue, fast approaching the roughly $10 billion per year the box office generates from ticket sales. The combined revenue from mobile games, video, music and location-based services […]
The US Netflix service will reportedly be losing all of its BBC content at the end of January. The contract with the BBC expires on February 1st, meaning that all of the titles that come to Netflix courtesy of the BBC will be immediately removed including Top Gear, Luther, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers and Little […]
Cricket Australia, the governing body of the sport in Australia, has confirmed that Cricket.com.au has come to Apple TV, providing fans with a library of cricket videos in high definition, free of charge. Cricket Australia on Apple TV will give fans free and immediate access to the latest news and features, extended highlights from every […]
Sky is to launch Fortitude, its highly anticipated new drama, on January 29th to 20 million customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. The series is the first Sky original programme to première simultaneously across all five markets since Sky created the entertainment company late last year. In addition to its launch on […]
Iran’s INRA news agency is reporting that the country’s “morality police chief” General Muhammad Masood Zahidian has said that his force has arrested 21 people who were making satellite receivers. The police seized 640 receivers being manufactured from a total of six different small factories in Tehran and Alborz provinces. Among the detainees there were […]
Leading Italian broadcasters RAI, Mediaset and Sky Italia are expected to launch new channels on DTT in 2015, while Discovery Italia has announced the closure of GXT. Sky Italia is set to bring its all-news channel SkyTG24, currently only available in its pay-TV offer via satellite, on DTT channel 27, free-to-air, taking the place of […]
New figures reveal that the UK’s Creative Industries, which includes the film, television and music industries, are now worth £76.9 billion (€98.4bn) per year to the UK economy. This massive contribution is an all-time high and equates to £8.8 million per hour, or £146,000 every single minute, playing a key role in the Government’s long-term […]
Amazon Studios has signed Woody Allen to write and direct his first television series ever. Untitled Woody Allen Project, a half-hour series, has received a full season order and episodes will be written and directed by Allen. Customers will be able to see the series exclusively on Prime Instant Video in the UK, US and […]
Sky Sports will dedicate an entire channel to the ICC Cricket World Cup, from the first to the last day of the biggest one-day event in the international cricket calendar. For six weeks, Sky Sports 2 will become ‘Sky Sports World Cup’, giving viewers over 1,000 hours of round the clock cricket coverage, including all […]