Charlie Ergen, the founder and billionaire owner of US pay-TV broadcaster Dish Network, has talked for a couple of years about the “inevitability” of merging with arch-rival DirecTV. Both are losing subscribers at a worrying rate, and common sense suggests that a merger is the only route to saving cash, exploiting synergies and reducing the […]
Roku, the TV streaming platform, has debuted Roku City billboards in New York’s Times Square featuring fan-favourite Roku City screensavers. Using quotes, memes, and real tweets from Roku users, the campaign celebrates streamers’ enjoyment of Roku City and aims to drum up excitement ahead of Roku’s in-person NewFront presentation on May 2nd at the Chelsea […]
Orange-owned specialist content distribution company Globecast has formed a strategic partnership with New York City-based Brklyn-Media, provider of virtualised media management and infrastructure services. Eddie Ferraro, MD Globecast Americas, commented “With this partnership, both companies can offer an expanded suite of services, full one-stop shop solutions, including access to the two largest television markets in […]
Harmonic has announced that MSG Networks will use Harmonic’s VOS360 SaaS for its new MSG+ sports streaming service, due to launch this summer. “We chose Harmonic as our strategic partner based on their extensive experience in enabling live sports streaming at scale. VOS360 SaaS will simplify all stages of media processing and delivery for our […]
The Academy of Digital Art, Sciences & Culture (ADASC) has partnered with DeFiance Media and Comcast affiliate Galaxy Digital Cable to air The NFTY Awards, after the live-interactive, pay-per-view broadcast. The announcement was made today during NFT.NYC by The NFTYS’ executive producers web3 entrepreneur Chris J. Snook and E! Entertainment Television co-founder Larry Namer. The NFTY Awards global broadcast […]
FilmRise, the New York-based film and television studio and streaming network, has acquired exclusive North American distribution rights including AVoD, TVoD, SVoD, FAST, and broadcast rights to the shocking six-part documentary crime-series “The Miramar Murders: The State Vs. Pablo Ibar” as one of its first original true-crime limited docu-series. The announcement was made today by […]
Located on New York City’s bustling west side, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center hosts thousands of events annually – from trade shows to product launches to movie premieres. All that activity happening across a sprawling complex of open exhibit space, meeting rooms, lounges and more can create a challenging communications environment. When the Center […]
Amazon has announced that 20 New York Yankees regular season games will stream exclusively on Prime Video this season, available at no additional cost to Prime members in the Yankees’ home-team footprint of New York State, Connecticut, north and central New Jersey and northeast Pennsylvania. The first exclusive New York Yankees game on Prime Video is […]
Live trial and true crime network Law&Crime has announced the launch of its new Book Club, which will feature a monthly book recommendation – or “Spotlight” – carefully selected from a growing pool of new releases in the non-fiction, true crime genre. The Book Club will allow millions of true crime fanatics to expand on […]
Tinuiti, the independent performance marketing firm across streaming TV, Google, Meta and Amazon, has announced its acquisition of Ampush, a marketing agency with a core focus across social platforms that provides end-to-end performance creative and customer acquisition capabilities. Tinuiti says the acquisition expands and complements its paid social capabilities, in addition to now providing brands […]