The Board of UK commercial PSB Channel 4 has announced the appointment of Priya Dogra as the next Chief Executive of Channel 4. Dogra, who is currently Chief Advertising, Group Data & New Revenue Officer at Sky, has more than 20 years’ experience in the media industry in the US, EMEA and the UK, spanning […]
ITVX has announced that it has already surpassed its total annual streams figure from 2024, with December viewing still to be counted. ITVX hit 3.3 billion streams on November 30th, achieving this figure a full month earlier than 2024. ITV said the accelerated growth “further evidences ITVX’s success as the dominant commercial BVoD service in […]
Bloomberg and Reuters are reporting that SpaceX will mount an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 2026, and in the process raise more than $25 billion (€21.5bn). The end result will be a business with an overall valuation of more than $1 trillion. There is no confirmation or denial from Elon Musk, but he has said […]
Consumption of time-shifted TV reached 8 minutes per person per day in November 2025, representing 5 per cent of total television use, according to the latest report from Barlovento Comunicación with data from Kantar. The study, which measures non-linear viewing of television content within the seven days following its original broadcast, as well as same-day […]
Fixed communication services revenue in Saudi Arabia is set for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.9 per cent during 2025-2030, underpinned by surging fixed broadband adoption even as traditional voice declines. The shift toward fixed wireless access (FWA) and fibre reflects accelerating digital infrastructure priorities, signaling deeper market readiness for high-capacity connectivity and […]
India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has delayed by a week its planned launch of AST SpaceMobile’s first of its powerful next-generation ‘Block 2’ BlueBird satellites (BlueBird 6). A planned launch date of December 15th has slipped to December 20th at 04.20 UTC. AST already has five of the earlier generation BlueBirds in orbit. Scott Wisniewski, […]
Delta Airlines has just completed fitting Viasat’s antennas to its 900+ aircraft. As Viasat congratulated Delta, the airline announced that it had reached another milestone with the installation of fast, free Delta Sync Wi-Fi presented by T-Mobile on its 1,000th aircraft, representing approximately 75 per cent of the total fleet The system is ‘free’ to […]
China launched a group of internet satellites into orbit on December 9th reports China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the State-owned space contractor. The satellites, the 15th group of low-orbit hardware in China’s State-owned internet network, were lifted by a Long March 6A carrier rocket at 6:11 am (Beijing time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch […]
Adnami, a leader in attention-driven digital advertising, thas announced the launch of its Agentic Curation product to create custom publisher deals and optimise campaigns fast and at scale. After a year of success delivering Curation services to global brands and agencies, Adnami now takes a leap forward by adding an agentic layer to its programmatic […]
JioStar, the Indian media giant, has notified the International Cricket Council (ICC) of its intent to exit its four-year India media rights contract – valued at some $3 billion (€2.5bn) – citing unsustainable financial losses. According to India’s Economic Times, JioStar has formally conveyed to the ICC that it will not be able to fulfil […]
SkyShowtime has announced the launch of dedicated, on-demand streaming channels on its platform, offering subscribers a selection of curated entertainment. Rolling out in Sweden immediately and across SkyShowtime’s other markets next year, the new feature will give users the chance to discover some of SkyShowtime’s most popular franchises such as Dexter, House, PAW Patrol, Star […]
Denver-based satellite operator EchoStar has told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it had no intention of selling off its valuable spectrum, but said it did so due to uncertainty fuelled by the FCC’s investigation into its usage. EchoStar sold spectrum to AT&T and SpaceX. The FCC filing confirmed a meeting between EchoStar founder and […]
You don’t have to be as old as me to remember the dotcom crash of March 2000. But, by the same token, there are plenty of senior executives and fund managers around who would have been children at the time. Are their perceptions of the inevitability of AI’s success, their assumption that we are all […]