An IDC study of consumer online behaviour found that the Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time (32.7 hours/week). This is equivalent to almost half of the total time spent each week using all media (70.6 hours), almost twice as much time as spent watching television (16.4 hours), and more […]

A majority of marketers believe that television advertising has become less effective in the past two years, but marketers are interested in exploring new ad formats and new forms of video commercials, according to the fourth biennial TV & Technology survey conducted by the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research. Sixty-two per cent of […]

NBC Universal has revealed will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including “The A-Team”, “Buck Rogers” and “Kojak,” on its websites. Beginning this month, the shows will be available on NBC.com and on network-owned niche sites SciFi.com, ChillerTV.com and SleuthChannel.com. The content also will be available on Hulu, the online video joint venture that […]

From Colin Mann in London Discovery Networks EMEA has premiered a series of short films, commissioned to capture the spirit of the Discovery Channel. The collection – Discover Shorts – will air on the Discovery Channel across Europe, the Middle East and Africa from 1st March. Discovery Shorts vary in length, from 30 to 120 […]

The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) in Korea has approved the acquisition of Hanaro Telecom by SK Telecom. SK won a 1.090 billion KRW bid for the company late last year, which was subject to the approval of government antitrust regulators. Hanaro had been rumoured to be an SK takeover target for the last […]

Tilgin, provider of customer premises equipment (CPE) for triple play, next-generation broadband and IMS-based services, has signed a worldwide sales and marketing co-operation agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks a globally recognised system integrator regarding the sale of pre-integrated Tilgin IPTV set-top boxes to selected customers. Tilgin will be promoted as a preferred supplier of Nokia […]

ShortsTV is the tenth television channel to be added to Apple's line-up on the UK iTunes Store. The Channel launches with all 10 of the Oscar Nominated Short Films in the Live Action and Animation categories for this years Academy Awards.

Eutelsat Communications has appointed former BT and Kingston employee Steve Maine as CEO of their jointly-owned venture offering Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) in S-Band. The Joint Venture, known under the name “Solaris”, will commercialise the first satellite infrastructure in Europe for broadcasting video, radio and data to mobile devices and vehicle receivers as well as […]

OmniGlobe Networks, specialist in delivering cellular, broadband Internet and VoIP services, has acquired Bandwidth Technologies International Group Limited (BTIG), the UK based international provider of satellite communications systems. OmniGlobe Networks, the privately held Canadian group, acquired the entire equity of BTIG – including its principal trading subsidiary L-TEQ Limited. BTIG will become the operations and […]

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) have unveiled a partnership to produce AntennaWeb.org, an online antenna mapping programme designed to help consumers and electronics retailers determine the proper outdoor antenna to use in order to receive free local broadcast channels. The tool is particularly valuable to consumers as the […]