Global media company Fullscreen has revealed plans to launch an ad-free SVoD service, which it says is the world’s first video membership experience programmed for the social-first generation. Debuting internationally on April 26th, the fullscreen service will feature ‘a robust programming slate featuring a diverse library comprised of feature films, scripted and unscripted acquisitions and […]
Newspapers used to be – sometimes still are – the playthings of powerful people, the kind of people who didn’t want to do anything as grubby as get elected, they just wanted to control those who were through the ‘power of the press.’ Now that the press is in decline surely it is a good […]
In keeping with its strategy of making its content available to all its viewers across as many platforms as possible, Sky is launching a new app just for kids – available from March 31 – designed to offer a safe and fun way for pre-schoolers to nine-year-olds to enjoy the widest range of the most […]
Ahead of the National Association of Broadcasters Show 2016 kicking off on April 16th, Gavin Mann, Accenture’s Global Broadcasting Industry Lead, has identified the big trends to look out for at the show. Stories to watch out for: 1. Super Platforms Spawn a Billion New Live Broadcasters – The super platform giants, like Amazon, Apple, […]
HJ Holdings (Hulu in Japan) and Starz Digital, the global digital and on-demand licensing arm of Starz, have announced an expansion of their STARZ Original series content licensing agreement. Hulu in Japan has acquired the SVoD rights to premiere the popular series, Ash vs Evil Dead, based on the classic horror film, The Evil Dead […]
UHD is part of every broadcaster conversation but is it ready for the market – there are plenty of TVs being sold but what about standards, content capture, workflow and transmission? Chris Forrester chaired a discussion with senior representatives from BT Sport, Harmonic, Harmonic, Snell Advanced Media and Sony. [bitsontherun xioz1Mru-hLYU43gg]
Netflix’s US catalogue is getting smaller, according to tracking site Allflicks. As competition in the OTT streaming space has increased, Netflix’s once-massive selection has decreased. In fact, it has shrunk by a third in less than two and a half years.
UK fans of Formula One will not be able to see live coverage of the sport free-to-air after 2018 following a new broadcast partnership between Sky and Formula One Management, save for the home British Grand Prix and at least two others. Sky also confirmed that coverage would be available in Ultra HD from next […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media is to ramp up the amount of exclusive video-on-demand programming available to its Virgin Media TV XL customers to watch through its TV on demand service. David Bouchier, Chief Digital Entertainment Officer at Virgin Media, revealed the operator’s intentions at a preview screening of Kingdom, a raw, emotional family drama […]
Jason Thibeault, Senior Director Content Marketing, explains Limelight’s suite of solutions that take the complexity and the heavy lifting out of a broadcaster’s transition to online. Video, CDN, workflow, web performance, security, storage, all form modular parts of an end-to-end service, so no matter the scale of the broadcaster, or where it has reached in […]