RDK Management has disclosed details about the continued adoption of RDK open source software used to power customer-premise equipment (CPE) from broadband and video service providers worldwide. “RDK now powers more than 60 million devices deployed by service providers around the world that require flexibility and control over their CPE software and diagnostics data,” said […]
Liberty Global has revealed that Severina Pascu will join UK multiplay operator Virgin Media as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective February 1st, 2020. Pascu is currently CEO of Liberty Global’s Swiss operations, UPC Switzerland, and will be succeeded in that role by Baptiest Coopmans, Senior Vice President Operations for […]
The London offices of IMG and MP & Silva have been raided by officials from the European commission investigating potential sports rights cartels. European investigators entered the offices of IMG and on April 10th as part of simultaneous raids including 21st Century Fox subsidiary Fox Networks and Ziggo Sport, the Dutch subsidiary owned by Vodafone […]
Shorts International, the movie entertainment company and operator of the ShortsTV channel. Using advanced machine-learning algorithm technology, the ShortsTV App marries the linear ShortsTV feed with the functionality of the Internet, at the click of a button on a viewer’s remote control. The ShortsTV App enables viewers to either watch TV or to create, control […]
Western European pay-TV will gain subscribers between 2017 and 2023. Although this only represents a 2.6 per cent increase, the Western Europe Pay-TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research, estimates nearly 3 million more subs to take the total to 106 million. “Much of the pay-TV subscriber growth will come from countries with traditionally low […]
BSkyB’s proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s stakes in Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia will create a pay-TV operation that will rival Liberty Global in subscriber terms. However, with limited pay-TV subscriber expansion possible for their existing assets, both companies will not want to stop there, according to a report from Digital TV Research. BSkyB […]