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 […]
US chipmaker Qualcomm, the owner of the Meiaflo alternative mobile TV platform, has joined Cisco Systems, Intel and Motorola by taking a stake in Ip.access, a UK-based pioneer of femtocells. Femtocells are routers that connect directly to 3G mobile phones. Ip.access, which is based in Cambridge, is developing the technology to allow operators to create […]
Satellite and cable operators in the UAE say efforts to put an end to pay TV piracy have failed thus far. “Piracy is harming our business but we cannot put a definite number on the customers lost,” e-vision CEO Humaid Rashid Sahoo told Emirates Business. “Broadcasting from other countries such as India and South Africa […]
TVU Networks, a live Internet TV service and Vobile, a provider of video content identification and management products and services, have confirmed the availability of its end-to-end content delivery platform with enhanced security for live Internet TV broadcasting. TVU, developers of the TVUBroadcast software and the TVU BD1000 Broadcast Appliance, offers 300 live channels through […]
Hulu, the video website owned by News Corp and NBC Universal, has confirmed its service will be distributed on seven new sites. Hulu videos will now be distributed on entertainment and social network sites TV.com, TVGuide.com, BuddyTV.com, Flixster.com, MyYearbook.com, Break.com and Zap2it.com.
The failure of social networking sites – such as Facebook and MySpace – to translate their global popularity into ad revenue has led research company eMarketer to downgrade ad-spend forecasts for the social-networking sector by around £250 million (E312m) by 2011. eMarketer said that “in spite of the media hype” around social networking worldwide-advertising spending […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain’s largest cable company ONO reported a profit of E8 million for the quarter against a E13 million loss for the same period last year. EBITDA amounted to E164 million, up 10.6 per cent, with total revenues reaching E400 million, 75 per cent of them from the residential business. […]
Canadian telco Bell has launched its online movie store. The Bell Video Store gives Canadians access to over 1500 downloadable movies and television shows for purchase or rental. Bell is the first online service in Canada to offer download-to-own movies the same day they become available in retail stores and download-to-rent shortly thereafter.
US chipmaker Qualcomm, the owner of the Meiaflo alternative mobile TV platform, has joined Cisco Systems, Intel and Motorola by taking a stake in Ip.access, a UK-based pioneer of femtocells. Femtocells are routers that connect directly to 3G mobile phones. Ip.access, which is based in Cambridge, is developing the technology to allow operators to create […]
Time Warner will receive a higher than expected $9.25 billion dividend from the spin-off of Time Warner Cable and has confirmed plans for a “complete legal and structural separation” of the two companies. Jeff Bewkes' biggest strategic step since becoming Time Warner chief executive in January would help each company's management focus on realising the […]