Portuguese commercial broadcaster SIC ended the first half of 2021 with a net profit of €5.5 million, up 32.8 per cent on the same period last year. Total revenues increased 18.9 per cent to €80 million, while EBITDA grew 11.1 per cent to €10 million. Subscription revenues generated by the eight SIC channels, distributed over […]

BritBox, the ITV/BBC OTT joint-venture, will launch on August 6th in South Africa with a charge of R100/month (€5.70). Customers who sign up for a one-year subscription – a Rand 999.90 commitment — will get two months free. There is also a free, seven-day trial with no obligations to subscribe. BritBox says that its output […]

Netflix and Hollywood star Jennifer Garner have announced they will continue to work together through a new partnership across multiple new films for Garner to star in and produce. This builds on Netflix’s relationship with Garner who starred in and produced family comedy Yes Day. The movie was seen by 62 million households in the […]

Italy’s Telespazio has taken extra satellite capacity from Eutelsat to serve the company’s rural broadband roll-out in Peru. The agreement sees Telespazio using Ku-band capacity operated on several transponders on the Eutelsat 117 West B satellite to bring telecommunications access to more than 1,300 underserved public sites, predominantly schools and health care facilities. Last month […]

Virgin Media O2 is launching an interactive online map revealing the iconic locations featured in many of the UK’s most popular TV shows. The new online tool, TV Mapper, allows users to search by show, genre or region; plan the ultimate fan route; and follow in the footsteps of their favourite characters, virtually or in […]

SES has announced a contract with NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL) for 9 transponders on its SES-8 satellite. SES-8 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in December 2013 to the 95 degrees East orbital slot. It has 33 Ku-band transponders so this nine transponder deal represents more than 25 percent of the satellite’s overall […]

Indian content distribution platform Tata Sky is delivering OTT aggregation with the introduction of Tata Sky Binge. Content discovery and viewer analytics solution provider ThinkAnalytics’ Think360 cloud-based personalised content discovery and viewer engagement platform is now live on Tata Sky’s Binge Fire TV Stick service and Binge mobile app. Binge subscribers now benefit from personalised […]

Drama fans in eight territories across Asia will soon be able to stream award-winning Singapore stories on HBO GO, as the platform acquires Mediacorp titles The Little Nyonya, Last Madame and Titoudao for its regional audience for the first time. The three dramas, which share a common theme of women overcoming adversity during pre-independence Singapore, […]

Sky is axing the Sky One channel brand and replacing it with a new flagship brand, Sky Showcase. Sky One launched across Europe in April 1982 and is the oldest non-terrestrial TV channel in the UK. The pay-TV broadcaster has additionally announced that it will be launching a new linear channel called Sky Max. Sky […]

Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development has presented a roadmap in which it proposes the postponement of the DTT switchover from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 from September 1st 2021 to the September 1st 2022. The decision comes after both the Italian government and broadcasters realized that it is not possible to meet the initial deadlines. According to […]