Spain’s Telefónica is set to approve an early retirement plan that may affect up to 5,000 staff through to 2026. According to Expansión, the company estimates that between 2,500 and 3,000 workers will accept the redundancy keeping in mind a similar plan in 2021 when 2,982 workers accepted it out of a total of 4,532. […]
The partnership between DAZN and Lega Serie A has been reconfirmed in Italy, with the entire Serie A TIM available to watch on DAZN until 2029. Italian football fans can watch every Serie A TIM match live on DAZN, with seven exclusive matches (266 out of 380 matches per season) and three co-exclusive matches with […]
The auction for All3Media has reached its final stage with three frontrunners: Banijay, Peter Chernin’s North Road, and a venture bid from Goldman Sachs are all in the running. Going up for sale in May with a sought price of around £1 billion (€1.15bn), All3Media is co-owned by Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) and Liberty Global. […]
Formats are proving to be resilient to the decline in commissioning activity experienced across the wider media industry according to a report from Ampere Analysis. While the volume of Unscripted titles announced in North America fell by 14 per cent between H1 2022 and H1 2023, titles based on formats were less affected with a […]
An investigation by UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has concluded that a programme presented by Martin Daubney (standing in for Laurence Fox), which aired on GB News on June 16th, breached due impartiality rules. Separately, Ofcom has published its assessment of an episode of Lee Anderson’s Real World which aired on September 29th, featuring an interview […]
Japan’s fixed communications service revenue is poised to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.3 per cent from $29 billion in 2023 to $31 billion in 2028, mainly supported by the fixed broadband segment, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Japan Fixed Communications Forecast (Q3-2023) reveals that fixed voice service […]
Geo-satellites will be resilient, but Starlink is winning the broadband connectivity battle and making 100,000 dishes per month, acording to Dr Tim Farrar, president of TMF Associates. Speaking at the 2023 Milsat Symposium (as part of the Silicon Valley Space Week), Farrar compared and contrasted the position of the well-established geostationary satellite operates such as […]
Russia has shifted one of its Luch satellites (which translates as ‘Beam’ or ‘Ray’) right alongside Eutelsat’s 3B craft. The Russian satellite is reported by observers to be about 18kms from the Eutelsat, which is extremely close. Satellite, which are registered with the ITU observe an orbital slot about 40kms by 40 kms. According to […]
SES has renewed its partnership with the National Football League (NFL) to deliver game content to over 35 broadcast partners across Europe, Asia, North and South America. In order to meet NFL’s requirements, SES says it has offered a unique combination of IP-based transport protocol (SRT) and its global satellite fleet to deliver all game […]
Last week some investors in Terran Orbital complained about the satellite company’s strategy. They called for the replacement of the company’s CEO and that a strategic review be implemented. Now, Terran’s independent directors have responded, and expressed confidence in the existing directors. Not helping is news from the New York Stock Exchange that Terran’s shares […]