The Indian Premier Cricket League has reached an agreement to stream matches live on the Internet and to mobile phones in regions including India, Pakistan and the Middle East in a deal with Dubai-based company netlinkblue reported to be worth almost $50 million over 10 years. Netlinkblue is looking to target cricket fans with content […]

XDC, the digital cinema service company in Europe and affiliate of EVS Broadcast Equipment, has announced the signature of non-exclusive long-term agreements with Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney Studios to co-finance the future deployment of maximum 8,000 DCI-compliant digital cinema installations in 22 European countries. The roll-out period under the […]

A US Government Accountability Office study is raising questions about how fully ready TV stations will be for next February's digital TV transition, even as it reports “substantial progress” since its last station survey. The study hints that for some smaller-city northern stations, the timing of the switch, at the height of winter, and the […]

Viasat Broadcasting has signed a five year agreement with Swedish telco Telia to enable Viasat to market and sell its pay-TV channel packages to Telia's 300,000+ IPTV customers and broadband subscribers.. Viasat's free-TV channels TV3, TV6, TV8 and ZTV, which together account for a third of the commercial viewing in Sweden, will also be included […]

Google co-founder Larry Page has spoke in-depth concerning the company’s proposal for a new generation of wireless devices to operate on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves. Page is hoping to convince lawmakers in Congress and officials at the Federal Communications Commission to allow the 'white space' between television channels to be accessed by low-power wireless devices. “I […]

From Branislav Pekic in Rome The Board of Directors of Italian state broadcaster RAI is examining a project to launch a joint digital terrestrial television package on a free-to-air satellite platform with other national broadcasters. The initiative also involves commercial broadcasters Mediaset and Telecom Italia Media (owner of the La7 TV channel) and aims to […]

ABC.com is souping up its full-episode broadband player with new features this Autumn Among the new features for the broadcaster’s online destination are full-screen viewing, high definition, content recommendation technology, closed captioning and the ability to send video links that can be embedded on blogs and social networks. ABC.com was the first full-episode player online […]

The BBC has come up with new plans for local online video news in its 60 regional centres. The plan would see existing BBC Local websites augmented with up to 20 minutes worth of video each day produced by local teams of journalists.

Time Warner and a partnership between NBC Universal and Blackstone Group have emerged as front runners in the auction for the Weather Channel ahead of the deadline for second round bids. Offers are understood to value the business at $3 billion-$4 billion, well short of the $5 billion Landmark Communications said it hoped to attain.

French commercial TV operators Television Francaise 1 (TF1), Vivendi SA’s Canal+ and M6-Metropole Television have announced the creation of an association (ACP) to ‘defend the rights and professional interests’ of national, private, terrestrial channels. The formation of ACP comes at the time when a government-appointed commission is due to announce its proposals for removing advertising […]