Insight from Ampere Analysis shows that US streaming platforms are increasingly sharing catalogues across platforms. In July 2025, 39 per cent of US titles (67,000 of 172,000) appeared on two or more services, compared with 13 per cent in the UK and 8 per cent in France over the same period. The high rate of […]
US President Donald Trump has announced that all foreign-made movies will face a 100 per cent tariff, contending that the industry has been “stolen from the United States”. Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: “Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing […]
Pluto TV, the free streaming platform, is launching new snooker channel Pluto Snooker 900. Snooker fans in the UK, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland can tune in to all the table action from October 6th. The channel, which will initially broadcast 18 hours a week of live snooker, will be the […]
Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, and TKO Group, the sports and entertainment company, have announced a long-term media rights agreement in which Paramount+ will become the exclusive home of Zuffa Boxing throughout the US, Canada and Latin America. Zuffa Boxing is the new professional boxing promotion formed by TKO and entertainment conglomerate Sela, with leadership from UFC President […]
Vibe.co, the ad platform bringing hyper-targeting to connected TV (CTV) for performance marketers, has closed $50 million (€42.6m) in Series B financing led by Hedosophia, an early investor of Spotify, Uber and Airbnb. The financing also includes participation from previous backers including Elaia and Singular; in addition to Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky’s fund QuantumLight; Supercell […]
VeEX Inc, a global leader in innovative test and measurement solutions for next-generation networks, has introduced the PX92, a new handheld PON analyser and multi-gigabit service test set designed to change the way technicians validate fibre installations and service turn-ups. With the rapid rollout of 10G PON and high-speed internet services, the pressure to get […]
AST SpaceMobile has announced its 100 per cent acquisition of EllioSat, in a deal first announced in August. AST said its reason for the purchase was because EllioSat “holds certain S-Band ITU priority rights to MSS (Mobile Satellite Services) frequencies in the range of 1980-2010 MHz and 2170-2200 MHz, for use in low Earth orbit”. […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced a partnership with Titan World Series to bring fans theofficial highlights from the world’s toughest multi-stage mountain bike adventure. All highlights will be available for free on the platform, with viewers just needing to register on the DAZN app. Since their creation in 2006, the Titan World Series […]
ViaSat-3 Flight 2 (VS-3 F2) – the second of three VS-3 Ultra-high capacity satellites – is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. It will liftoff aboard an Atlas V 551 rocket provided by United Launch Alliance (ULA) in the second half of October. Once in […]
Plume has joined the RDK community as a Preferred Plus Member. As a Preferred Plus member, Plume will collaborate on RDK’s open-source software (RDK-B) for broadband service providers by contributing code and sharing technical expertise based on its work with hundreds of internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide and intelligence from more than 500 million devices. […]
Now TV has announced that it has partnered with Disney+ in Hong Kong to bringing the streaming platform’s full library of content to its customers in the region. Derek Choi, Managing Director, Consumer Marketing & Pay TV, HKT, commented: “We are thrilled to join forces with Disney+ to bring the beloved slates from Disney’s brands […]
SES will pay its shareholders its dividend of 25 Euro-cents on October 16th “in line with its commitment to shareholder returns”. The 25 cent payment is the same as has been paid for a number of years. However, SES has over the past year or so promised an improved rate of dividend payments. Its announcement […]
There’s no moral in this story because, of course, it is about television. For as long as it has been around there have been moral panics about TV, as in ‘does what it puts on screen erode the moral fibre of a nation?’ As the word panic implies, the answer is, generally, no. Nowadays even […]