After developing a decade of experience as a media analyst and consultant in the world of digital media, especially in digital broadcasting world, Jonathan Broughton has been appointed head of strategy for the European Broadcast Union (EBU).

Hull-based digital infrastructure specialist Connexin has successfully connected its first customer to its new full-fibre network in East Riding of Yorkshire.

Amid the current political turmoil surrounding that it finds itself in currently, the UK government has angered UK media with plans to freeze for the next two years the main source of funding for the BBC, the licence fee, and then ultimately abolish completely over the next six years.

Noting that the industry never had an easy ride in the region, a study from Digital TV Research is forecasting that pay-TV revenues for 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region will fall by 38% between peak year 2016 ($3.84 billion) and 2027 ($2.39 billion).

Even though it remains the undisputed leading streaming platform, with a 21% share of the US subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market in 2021, Netflix is showing signs of slowing and, says analyst GlobalData, is going to see an even more challenging 2022.

The DPP, the media industry’s business network, has published Recommendation DPP008 Business to Business Metadata Exchange.

CommScope and ViacomCBS have announced that ViacomCBS has launched FAVE and migrated its DABL and select SHOWTIME linear channels from satellite to Content Delivery Network (CDN) IP distribution using the CommScope DigiCipher Streaming system.