MBC to partner China’s National Radio & TV Administration
Broadcast
14-11-2018
Pan Arab media group MBC has agreed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) to develop content and share production expertise.
Discovery’s Dinnage to be Premier League CEO
Major Businesses
14-11-2018
As it aims to ensure that the TV football money taps are kept in the gushing position, the English Premier League has looked to the TV industry for its next chief executive in the form of Susanna Dinnage, global president of Discovery’s Animal Planet brand.
Pixalate gains first MRC for OTT accreditation
OTT
14-11-2018
Ad fraud detection and prevention platform Pixalate has become the first company to receive accreditation from the Media Rating Council (MRC) for sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT) detection and filtration for over-the-top (OTT) video ad impressions.
Welsh drama Living a Lie gains acclaim in Bulgaria
Deals
14-11-2018
Furthering its reach outside its domestic market, and continuing the recent success of Welsh drama such as Hinterland and Hidden, S4C has announced that its Byw Celwydd/Living a Lie has been sold to Bulgarian free-to-air broadcaster Bulgaria On Air.
Guy Sebastian joins The Voice Australia
Programming
14-11-2018
Singer, songwriter and producer Guy Sebastian is to be the fourth coach on the next season of The Voice Australia, on Channel Nine.
US multichannel sector loses 1.2MN video subscribers in Q3
Pay-TV
14-11-2018
Yet more bad news in what has been an utterly miserable third quarter of the year for the US pay-TV industry in the form of a Kagan report showing that the combined cable, satellite and telco sectors lost 1.2 million customers.
Nearly half of Thai consumers use pirated TV boxes
Security
14-11-2018
Rather alarming research from the Coalition Against Piracy of the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has found that Thailand’s subscription video industry faces new threat as consumers’ viewing habits shift to pirated TV boxes.
Eurofins launches cyber security division
Security
14-11-2018
Aiming to address what it sees as the increased needs of media/entertainment companies to plug what could be huge hole in their operations, Eurofins Digital Testing has launched a new cyber security division.
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