The Jeff Bezos-backed Project Kuiper will see investment topping $10 billion, says Chris Quilty, senior researcher at Florida-based Quilty Analytics, in the firm’s latest Satcom Quarterly Briefing. The end result, for broadband consumers, could be impressive. Quilty is blunt, saying that Amazon’s involvement in the plan to launch 3236 satellites to Low Earth orbit (LEO) […]
Streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are consistently outbidding British broadcasters for new shows amid a global shortage of content, forcing traditional broadcasters to find new ways to fill schedules in the coming months and years. Although TV audiences rose sharply during lockdown, the near-global production shutdown has created a looming shortage […]
Amazon Prime Video is now the sole digital streaming destination for all non-nationally televised Seattle Sounders FC matches throughout the club’s home broadcast territory in the US, marking just the second time Prime Video has reached a streaming agreement with a sports franchise, and the first deal with a professional soccer club. Starting with Sounders […]
Actor, producer and born-and-bred Londoner, Tom Hardy, will narrate the upcoming UK Amazon Original series, All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur. Hardy, born and raised in Hammersmith, London, will guide viewers through the series which will take sports fans behind the scenes of this illustrious football club during a pivotal season and follow all of the key […]
Thomas Rabe, CEO/chairman of Bertelsmann, has shared his view that there’s a strong case and a need for consolidation amongst streaming platforms. His comments prompted a note to clients from a couple of investment banks. Exane/BNPP asked: “Does this give RTL the impetus to be the European broadcasting champion?” The bank adds: “As a reminder, […]
Amazon has unveiled Text Banner for Fire TV, a new assistive technology designed for customers with a narrow field of vision, including eye conditions like macular degeneration, glaucoma, and retinitis pigmentosa. Text Banner consolidates onscreen text into a compact, written banner that appears in a fixed location on the screen. The entire Fire TV user […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced that the highly anticipated series Utopia will launch on September 25th. The official trailer has also been launched. The eight-part conspiracy thriller comes from best-selling author and award-winning screenwriter, Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects). After years of honing the ambitious project, Flynn delivers an artfully detailed series that urges viewers […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced that Jensen Ackles, star of Supernatural, will be joining the cast of the hit series The Boys for Season 3. Ackles will portray Soldier Boy – the original Superhero. After Soldier Boy fought in World War II, he became the first super celebrity, and a mainstay of American culture for decades. Eric […]
Amazon has announced that the first three episodes of All Or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur will launch exclusively on Prime Video on August 31st in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The nine-episode behind-the-scenes docu-series follows the Premier League football team throughout the 2019/20 season. A further three episodes will launch on September 7th with […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced Welcome to the Blumhouse, a programme of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. Sharing the suspense that’s a Blumhouse signature, each film presents a distinctive vision and unique perspective on common themes centred around family and love as redemptive or destructive forces. This […]