Audiovisual piracy cost the Italian economy €2.3 billion in 2025, including €902 million in GDP losses, €408 million in tax revenue and 11,100 jobs. While 20 million Italians (37 per cent of the population) engaged in piracy, this figure is down 4 per cent from 2024 and 7 per cent from 2023, suggesting anti-piracy efforts […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced the renewal of its partnership with Lega Serie A in France for an additional three seasons. From the 2026-27 season through to the end of the 2028-29 season, DAZN will continue to be the exclusive home of every Serie A, Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana match. This new […]
Channel 4 has partnered with CACI, the consumer and market intelligence specialists, to unlock smarter geo-targeting of audiences. Powered by CACI’s geospatial intelligence and Acorn data segments, which offer a rich classification system that segments all UK households and postcodes, Channel 4’s new Geo Mapping tool will give advertisers the tools to specifically address both […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons is continuing its BBC Charter Review inquiry with a session on June 30th exploring both the views of other major broadcasters and the role of the BBC in delivering news. During the first half of the session with representatives from ITV, Channel 4 […]
The ARD,, the German public broadcaster, along with Vodafone and the Baden-Württemberg Dual University of Applied Sciences (DHBW) have successfully tested the transmission of a quantum-encrypted TV stream. The test via a fibre optic line, took place between the ARD site in Frankfurt am Main and the radio house of the SWR in Mainz, which […]
Antenna Group, the international media, content, news and entertainment organisation, and DAZN, the sports streaming platform, have announced a partnership to launch an original news service on DAZN Italia, expanding the offering on DAZN’s platform beyond live sport into a destination for real-time information and analysis. The partnership is aligned Antenna’s recent acquisition of GEDI […]
SpaceX is planning to buy US cellular operator T-Mobile according to industry speculation. The reports include a note from analysts at investment bank TD Cowen which says that SpaceX could buy T-Mobile if the three giant cellular operators (AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile) decline to allow SpaceX’s Starlink service access to their networks. That leaves SpaceX […]
TV sets featuring LED backlights with independent red, green, and blue (RGB) LED chips are forecast to account for 13 per cent of global TV set revenue by 2030, up from 3 per cent in 2026, according to the latest Omdia TV Sets (Emerging Technologies) Market Tracker Forecast. RGB LED backlight technology began reaching retail […]
Titan OS, the European technology, entertainment and advertising company, has announced a partnership with MediaTek, the semiconductor company powering nearly 2 billion connected devices each year across mobile, home entertainment and IoT sectors. The announcement was made during the Annual Advertising Summit, held alongside Cannes Lions, where senior executives from Media Agencies, Brands and Tech […]
SpaceX’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite service has added some 25,500 subscribers in the past half-year in Nigeria, and its subscriber base now totals 91,991. The total now places Starlink as the second largest ISP in Nigeria. The current total represents some 26 per cent of Nigeria’s total active ISP subscribers. The subscriber gain comes from Starlink’s advantage […]
South Korea plans to launch its fourth next-generation medium-sized satellite on July 9th, with final preparations under way at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, the country’s space agency says. Oh Tae-seok, administrator of the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA), announced the plan during a meeting with reporters at the agency’s headquarters in Sacheon, about 300 […]
FCC chairman Brendan Carr issued what is seen as a significant vote of confidence for AST SpaceMobile during a press conference. Carr said the US wanted to “lead the world” with AST’s technology. “If you step back,” he said, “what AST is doing in significant part, or maybe exclusively in the AST [cellular] sector, is […]
In the latest issue of Euromedia we take the temperature of the FAST business. Guess what? It is running very hot. There are hundreds more channels streaming out thousands more hours and carrying tens of thousands of ads. And viewers? Of course there are viewers, but enough to go around? The major platforms, Prime Video, […]