Alticast, an end-to-end media solutions provider, has formed a partnership with LowaSIS, a commercial hardware provider at the forefront of bringing ATSC 3.0 to fruition. In an agreement aimed at helping broadcast customers seamlessly make the transition to ATSC 3.0, Alticast’s modular, client-side software stack will be pre-integrated onto LowaSIS’s dongles, set-top-boxes and home-gateways. Alticast […]
Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, and Premion, a division of TEGNA and CTV/OTT advertising platform for local and regional US advertisers, has entered into an agreement for Comscore to be the measurement provider for Premion’s OTT offering. Part of TEGNA Marketing Solutions (TMS), Premion is an CTV/OTT advertising platform […]
France’s proposed Salto OTT platform, backed by public broadcaster France Télévisions, and commercial operators TF1 and M6, is set o see the trio triple their investment in the platform. They had initially promised a combined €45 million but French business newspaper Les Echos is reporting that this is to be increased to €135 million. Salto […]
Swedish sports rights agency Spring Media is partnering with Red Bee to launch Wnited – a global OTT service dedicated to women’s football. Going live in Q1 2020, Wnited will aggregate high-level multi-camera content from top tier leagues in Europe, Asia and the Americas as well as national team matches to global audiences. With both […]
Eir, the Irish telco, has launched a new TV service with Apple TV. The service provides customers with over 100 channels in HD, and access to thousands of apps including RTE Player, Now TV, Netflix, Youtube and Amazon Prime Video. Customers can get a monthly subscription for €14.99 per month for the first six months, […]
The growth in value of in-play clip and short-form highlights rights will outstrip the growth in value of live rights according to five-year projections by Two Circles. Using its proprietary media-modelling techniques, the data-driven sports marketing agency projects the global sports media rights market will be worth $60.9 billion (€50.7bn) in 2024 – up from […]
Amazon Prime Video has revealed its Premier League football Boxing Day schedule. For the first time, the entire December 26th slate of matches will be available to watch live – exclusively on Amazon’s streaming platform. There are four different kick-off times throughout the day, allowing football fans to potentially watch around 10 hours of live […]
The uptake of pay-TV among UK TV households is set to decline by 7.5 per cent by 2023 according to analysts at consultancy firm Broadcast Intelligence. As the SVoD market continues to grow, UK pay-TV penetration will fall to numbers not seen since before 2011. Broadcast Intelligence’s report – Pay-TV’s future in an on-demand world […]
IPTV is the main platform for pay TV distribution in Spain with 4.6 million subscribers out of the total 6.8 million pay TV customers, according to the latest figures from the CNMC. Nine out of ten IP pay TV subscribers have a pay TV service within a convergent package. IP pay TV made sales of […]
Movie exhibition company AMC Theatres is extending its business into the home. Members of the company’s AMC Stubs loyalty plan in the United States can rent or buy approximately 2,000 of the most popular digital movies from the top Hollywood studios at AMCTheatres.com as well as on the AMC Theatres mobile, connected devices and Smart […]