Satellite services provider and Azercosmos OJSCo, the national satellite operator of Azerbaijan, have signed a strategic agreement at the 45 degrees East orbital position. The two companies will closely collaborate on the design of the Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 satellite and leverage their respective strengths and capabilities during the manufacturing and operational phases of development. The new […]
Campaigners have delivered a petition signed by more than a quarter of a million people calling on the BBC not to axe digital station BBC3. The petition, signed by 271,222 individuals, was delivered to the BBC Trust, which has yet to rule on the plan to take the youth-oriented station online-only. Jono Read, who set […]
The strength of the US dollar is likely to hurt pay-TV subscription growth this year, according to Brazil’s pay-TV Association (ABTA). Oscar Olivera, the president of ABTA, says that local economic weakness is also hurting growth. Brazil suffered a slowing in demand numbers in January and Olivera said that local pay-TV providers Oi and Claro […]
India’s Videocon d2h pay-TV operation has asked the country’s Securities & Exchange Board to put on ‘hold’ its prospectus for an IPO which it filed on September 30th last year. US-based Silver Eagle Acquisition Corp (SEAC) invested $303.7 million (for 33.5 per cent stake) into the d2h business on January 7th and is seeking a […]
Audience analytics specialist Genius Digital has hired Giles Cottle as Director of Consumer Insight Products. Effective immediately, Freesat’s former Head of Strategy will take overall responsibility for Genius Digital’s product portfolio, including strategic direction and development, positioning, pricing and business development. “It is a really exciting time to have Giles on board- especially as broadcasters […]
Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan is set to star in a new movie made exclusively for Netflix. War thriller Jadotville will see Dornan portray real-life UN Commander Patrick Quinlan, who in 1961 led an Irish battalion of 150 besieged by thousands of Congolese troops. The film is the latest of Netflix’s exclusive movie […]
mirada, the audiovisual interaction specialist, has confirmed the commercial launch of the company’s multiscreen product Iris for Cablevisión in Mexico. This is the first of the cable network deployments agreed as part of the announcement dated May 19th 2014, which enables Cablevisión to launch its renewed pay-TV service based on mirada’s Iris end-to-end solution. The […]
Moscow Telecommunications Corporation COMCOR (the Akado Telecom brand) will deploy the E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) from Arris to give its customers in Moscow access to a 200 Mbps high-speed Internet service. Moscow Telecommunications Corporation COMCOR will work with an existing Arris authorised channel member to deploy the Arris E6000 CER. The deployment at Moscow […]
NRK has signed a contract with Arkena for CDN (Content Delivery Network) services. The national public broadcaster NRK is considered the largest Norwegian streaming service. In 2014, NRK streamed 120 petabytes of data to its audience, and this year NRK expects volume to be over 200 petabytes. “NRK is Norway’s largest and most experienced purchaser […]
OVGuide.com, a specialist in online video guidance, is offering its proprietary cross platform video streaming solution to content owners and distributors with the aim of making it easier for them to bring a custom branded OTT service to their target audience. OVGuide developed its video technology, including data ingestion processes, API and cloud platform to […]