Rupert Murdoch has attended the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, signalling the love-hate relationship with the candidate is back on. After 2020, Murdoch reportedly quipped that Trump was ‘increasingly mad’ and would be a danger in a second term. He backed Ron DeSantis’s run for nomination. Trump, meanwhile, never forgave Murdoch’s Fox News for calling key […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has published its review of the BBC’s assessment of whether its proposals for three new music streams on BBC Sounds constitute ‘material changes’ to its public service activities. Before making any changes to its licence-fee funded services, the BBC must first, under the Charter and Agreement, consider whether the changes are […]
DoubleVerify (DV), a software platform platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics, has revealed findings from its eighth annual DV Global Insights: 2024 Trends Report. The report reveals that the UK is lagging behind in terms of brand safety, with brand safety and suitability violations surpassing the global benchmark. UK violations stand at 7.6 […]
Communications technologist Ericsson and smartphone vendor OPPO have signed a multi-year global patent cross licence agreement. This includes a cross licence covering patents essential to standards for cellular technologies, including 5G. OPPO will make royalty payments to Ericsson. In addition to a cross licence, OPPO and Ericsson will conduct business cooperation on a number of […]
Video recognition specialist WebKyte has become the newest member of the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). It joins the ever-growing and thriving BASE community, eighty-five-plus organisations united in supporting the Home Entertainment industry, and, through BASE’s dedicated unit, the Industry Trust for IP Awareness, a collective dedicated to tackling the issue of copyright infringement […]
From August 28th, as established in the National Service Contract between the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy and RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (the Italian public broadcaster), a mux of the public broadcaster (Mux B) will switch exclusively to transmissions in the DVB-T2 HEVC standard. In particular, Rai Storia, Rai Scuola and Rai Radio […]
The DVB Steering Board has approved the publication of an update to DVB’s Targeted Advertising specifications as well as commercial requirements for the addition of a new CDN-related functionality to DVB-I and DVB-DASH. Both documents are available from the DVB specification library as BlueBooks. DVB’s specifications for Targeted Advertising come in three parts. DVB-TA Part […]
A union representing workers at tech giant Samsung Electronics has called on its roughly 30,000 members to go on strike indefinitely, as part of its campaign for better pay and benefits. The announcement came on the last day of a three-day general strike being held by the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), which said it […]
Lisa Nandy has been appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport by new British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Nandy is the MP for Wigan in the northwest of England and prior to the dissolution of Parliament on May 30th, was Shadow Minister (International Development), at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office having […]
The Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has called for the incoming Labour administration to offer better protections in a number of areas. WGGB General Secretary, Ellie Peers, commented: “As the UK wakes up to a new government and chapter in our political history, we call for a better deal for UK writers, who have […]