Interactive media entrepreneur Jasper Smith has reacquired his visual media company Static 2358, which includes the iTV games channel PlayJam, from software provider OpenTV. PlayJam channels launched on France's Canal Sat and BSkyB in 2000, delivering both free and pay-per-play prized-based games. OpenTV purchased PlayJam/Static in 2001. Now available in over 55 million TV homes […]

RTL Group, Europe’s biggest broadcaster, posted a 37 per cent decline in 2007 profit because of one-time charges including a cartel fine in Germany and comparisons to 2006 when earnings were boosted by asset sales and tax gains. Net income dropped to E563 million from E890 million euros. Sales rose 1.2 per cent to E5.71 […]

ITV lost £58 million from the call-TV crisis last year, as tumbling revenues from premium-rate services contributed to a 5 per cent decline in income and a 35 per cent slide in pre-tax profits. The UK broadcaster has reported revenues of £2.08 billion (E2.79bn) in 2007, down 5 per cent on £2.18 billion the year […]

IPTV service revenues will approach $14 billion in 2012, growing from $694 million in 2007, according to “US IPTV Forecast and Outlook,” from Strategy Analytics. Although there are numerous IPTV providers of all shapes and sizes in the US, the landscape is dominated by the two incumbents: AT&T and Verizon, each of which has a […]

Crisis talks regarding the future of DAB Digital Radio in the UK have been taking place with senior figures in the industry all debating what measures should be taken to ensure the survival of the medium. Proposed solutions include the possibility that Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and Five Live would gradually switch to DAB […]

UK piracy would be massively reduced if offenders received a warning from their Internet service provider, according to a survey by Entertainment Media Research. The report suggests that 70 per cent of people would cease piracy if they received a warning. The percentage of those who would stop downloading unauthorised content if contacted by their […]

Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, has announced that its award-winning iPlex UltraCompression IPTV video processing and transcoding system has been selected by du, the Dubai-based telco, as the head-end for its IPTV services. du is the United Arab Emirates's newest telecommunications company, launched in February 2007, it already has 1.5 million customers.

RRsat Global Communications Network a provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced that SVT, (Swedish Television), Sweden's public television broadcasting service has chosen RRsat to expand its coverage all over Europe. Over the past three years RRsat has been distributing the SVT channel over its […]

The recent closure of two of Germany’s HDTV channels has cast a shadow over European hopes for a rapid transition to high definition, according to Strategy Analytics. The report concludes that Europe’s television providers should concentrate their resources initially on building pay television rather than advertising-based business models in order to reach the critical mass […]

eMarketer projects that nearly 80 per cent of US Internet users will watch online video at least once a month in 2008, meaning 52.5 per cent of all Americans or 154 million people will watch online video in 2008. That's a 12.1 per cent gain over 2007, but represents a slower increase, as more Internet […]