Sky and NBC bring together advanced advertising platforms
Sky and NBC Universal are to launch a joint advertising platform that brings together Sky’s AdSmart capabilities with those of NBC’s Audience Studio. … [Read More...]
Newsline
Asia Pacific OTT to generate $48 billion
Asia Pacific OTT TV episode and movie revenues will reach $48 billion in 2024; up from the $21 billion recorded in 2018. According to the Asia Pacific OTT TV and Video Forecasts report, the total will increase by $5 billion in 2019 alone. … [Read More...]
MBC secures broadcast rights for Formula One
The MBC Group has acquired the rights to the FIA Formula One races. The broadcaster will offer F1 racing free-to-air. … [Read More...]
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Discovery promotes Keith Kazerman
Discovery has promoted Keith Kazerman to executive VP, digital sales, advanced advertising and research, effective immediately. … [Read More...]
Kantar moves to single brand
Data insight firm Kantar is to move to a single brand, dropping other titles including Kantar Media, Kantar TNS, Kantar Worldpanel and a number of country-specific brands. … [Read More...]
Globecast Live to take events to any screen
Globecast has unveilled Globecast Live, which the global solutions provider says will deliver any event to any screen. … [Read More...]
James Burke confirmed for DTG Summit
Broadcaster James Burke is to join a special session at the DTG Summit marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings. … [Read More...]
TVP grows revenues and VOD service
The Polish public broadcaster TVP saw its revenues from sponsorship and advertising grow by 13.7% in 2018. … [Read More...]
Protestors storm RTS HQ
The building of the Serbian national broadcaster RTS has been stormed by people protesting against the country’s President Aleksandar Vucic. … [Read More...]
Board changes at Cyfrowy Polsat
Dariusz Dzialkowski and Tomasz Gillner-Gorywoda have resigned from their positions of members of the management board at Poland’s Cyfrowy Polsat, effective March 31, 2019. … [Read More...]
Cujo AI joins RDK community
Cujo AI, a network intelligence company delivering AI-driven solutions for major network operators in the industry, has announced that it has joined the RDK Community. … [Read More...]
Central & East Europe
Maciej Stanecki dismissed from TVP board
Poland’s National Media Council (RMN) has dismissed Maciej Stanecki from the board of the Polish public broadcaster TVP. … [Read More...]
Telemach monopoly challenged in Bosnia
The Association of Cable Operators and Distributors of Bosnia & Herzegovina (AKOP BiH) has called on state institutions to tackle the monopoly status enjoyed by Telemach. … [Read More...]
Serbia Broadband to rebrand channel
Serbia Broadband (SBB) will rebrand its proprietary channel Top kanal Nova S on March 25. … [Read More...]
Channels
Sky Arts to drop linear channel in Germany
German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland will convert its arts and cultural channel Sky Arts into a sole on-demand service as of April 3, 2019, at the same time closing down the linear channel. … [Read More...]
Iko Media Group re-launches Kurdsat TV
Iko Media Group, a global end-to-end service provider for broadcasters and content owners, has announced a re-launch of Kurdish television station Kurdsat. … [Read More...]
RTL rejects joint streaming venture with ProSiebenSat.1
RTL Group does not intend to accept ProSiebenSat.1's invitation to participate in the latter's joint German streaming venture with Discovery for the time being. … [Read More...]
Editors’ Choice
Israel’s Yes to drop satellite for OTT
Bezeq has said its satellite platform Yes is to drop DTH transmissions in favour of OTT. … [Read More...]
Manufacturers look to 8K sets – but where’s the content?
There’s disagreement over whether there will be sufficient content to be shown on the 8K TV displays currently being developed. … [Read More...]
Rakuten TV launches 8K and adds 30 new territories
T-VOD service Rakuten TV hopes to add 8K content to its catalogue by the end of the year. The platform has also signed deals with smart TV manufacturers and is adding more than 30 new territories taking it to 40 in all. … [Read More...]
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