ESPN Player will deliver live and on-demand coverage of the 2018 X Games Sydney in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as the world’s top action sports athletes gather in Spotless Stadium in Sydney Olympic Park. Athletes from across the globe will take part in the first ever X Games in Australia. The live action […]
Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive of ITV, has confirmed that the UK public service commercial broadcaster will launch an SVoD service at some stage in 2019, and would be enhancing its existing its existing ITV Hub AVoD service. Delivering a Media Mastermind Keynote at MIPCOM, McCall said the service would be separate from the ITV Hub […]
The UK’s public service broadcasters – BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 – are calling for new rules to ensure their programming receives top billing in the era of on-demand TV viewing. The chief executives of the UK’s biggest public service broadcasters, including STV in Scotland and S4C in Wales, have co-signed a letter, […]
Eleven Sports, the online streaming service, has this season been offering La Liga games at 3.15pm on Saturdays to UK viewers, despite Uefa’s article 48 banning the broadcast of live football between 2.45pm and 5.15pm. The rule, which has been in place since the 1960s, is now only enforced in England, Scotland, and Montenegro as […]
BBC Studios is launching BBC Earth Tribe, a brand new BBC Earth fan community with the leading ISP in China, Tencent, as well as a co-production partnership for BBC Studios’ latest natural history landmark, Dynasties. The signing of the co-production agreement with Tencent for Dynasties is part of a larger multiyear partnership between BBC Studios […]
Vewd, the smart TV OTT software provider, has announced that iVideoSmart the independent premium video publisher in South East Asia, have jointly launched more than a 100 new Vewd certified apps. iVideoSmart premium partners such as GMA, Yan News, Cinemania, Bounty Films, Adagio are already live on the platform. And through iVideoSmart’s collaboration with VideoElephant, […]
After years of fibre inactivity across much of Western Europe, renewed efforts are emerging that will help plug the gap between the fibre haves and have-nots, according to a report from Kagan, the TMT arm of S&P Global Market Intelligence “The region’s broadband markets are approaching saturation on copper lines and operators are increasingly competing […]
Canal Digital, a DTH service provider operating a multi-platform television service in the Nordics, reports streaming quality numbers exceeding the European averages reported in Conviva’s Q1 2018 state of streaming report. Conviva, the measurement and intelligence platform for streaming TV, releases quarterly reports highlighting streaming numbers and trends based on their global customer base. Conviva’s […]
WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey has confirmed that the AT&T unit – comprising HBO, Turner and Warner Bros, created following the telco’s acquisition of Time Warner – is to launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service. Existing OTT and SVoD platforms operated by AT&T are DirecTV Now, HBO Go and HBO Now. “Today we announced plans to launch […]
According to Fateha Begum, associate director, connected devices, IHS Markit, adults under the age of 35, and particularly males, are most interested in UHD content when choosing a video service. “More than a third of video subscribers across the five markets surveyed – the US, UK, Germany, Japan and Brazil – indicated that UHD content […]