Oct 17 2017
Gary Davey, MD Content Europe for Sky, told delegates attending his keynote speech in the Sony UHD Theatre at MIPCOM that Ultra HD has been a big success in the UK, and that Germany and Italy will follow with a Sky Q proposition in the next year. Davey said UHD was in the top three […]
Oct 12 2017
In the first of three cases, Janet Ferguson, Lisa Kaye and Arnold Martin of The Mayflower[1] in Bootle, Merseyside, were found guilty in their absence of six offences and were each fined £750 per offence and ordered to pay £170 Victim Surcharge and costs of £779.77, totalling £5,449.77 each (a grand total of £16,349.31). In […]
Oct 12 2017
Dual-mission satellite will enable SES to accelerate delivery of HD and UHD channels using C-band capacity across the US, while Ku-band payload will serve EchoStar’s enterprise, media and broadcast needs Luxembourg/ Cape Canaveral, 12 October 2017 – SES announced today that the EchoStar 105/ SES-11 satellite was successfully launched into space on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 […]
Oct 10 2017
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out more detail about what it intends to examine in its investigation into the proposed takeover of Sky Plc by 21st Century Fox. On 20 September, Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport referred Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky to the […]
Oct 9 2017
Sky Q is continuing the development of its premium TV platform by adding even more features in late 2017. The latest addition is voice control, which is an extension to the system’s existing voice search capabilities. From 5 October, Sky is rolling out the ability to navigate directly to channels, play back recorded content and […]
Oct 4 2017
Sky will drop RTÉ from its platform if the Irish Government does not continue to oblige the public service broadcaster to offer its channels to pay-TV companies for free. Sky, which is 39 per cent-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, told the Oireachtas communications committee on Tuesday that there “could only be losers” were […]
Oct 2 2017
The BBC World Service is now available on DAB digital radio in Denmark following a national switch to DAB+. Overnight from 30th September to 1st October 2017, the Danish DAB network was switched to the newer DAB+ standard, providing room for new services to launch, including the BBC World Service, which now occupies a 40kbps […]
Oct 1 2017
BBC World News has ceased broadcasting in standard definition on Astra 19.2°E. The BBC has decided to end its dual transmission of both standard and high definition versions of BBC World News via the Astra 1 satellite group. The HD version of the channel, launched in Europe in April 2015, now remains the default way […]
Sep 29 2017
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan, September 29, 2017 – International Launch Services (ILS), a leader in providing launch services to the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the AsiaSat 9 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong. This was the 3rd commercial mission of the year […]
Sep 27 2017
Watch the live webcast at 2:30 PM ET at http://asiasat9.imgondemand.com/ General mission information and launch status updates are available at the website (ilslaunch.com), twitter (#ILSLaunch) and Facebook (@ilslaunch). Payload: AsiaSat 9 communications satellite SSL 1300 Separated spacecraft mass: Approx. 6,140 kg (13,536 lbs) Launch Vehicle: Proton Breeze M 705,000 kg (1,554,000 lbs), including payload 58.2 […]
Sep 27 2017
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, today announced that it has finalised and published its IPTV Specification. This specification builds on HbbTV 2. The new specification has been published by ETSI as TS 103 555 […]
Oct 18 2017
Director of T&I Simon Fell to leave EBU next year
Simon Fell, Director of Technology and Innovation, will leave the EBU when his term comes to an end in February 2018. Fell has led the Technology and Innovation team since 2013 and overseen a period where the pace of change has quickened globally across the industry. Public service broadcasters have had to transition to a […]
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By Expat • International News • • Tags: EBU, Simon Fell