IBM’s second global online survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits revealed that consumers are adopting digital content services — such as social networking and videos – on mobile phones and personal computers at an accelerated pace, and it is impacting traditional consumption habits. The survey, which was conducted with 2,800 people in six […]
Red Bee Media has joined the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) to help promote solutions that increase the efficiency of television broadcast workflows. As an international service provider that employs complex workflows to meet the diverse business requirements of clients, Red Bee Media is increasingly expected to provide complex, dynamic interfaces to 3rd party data […]
The three major French broadcasters – TF1, France Television and NT1 – have won an injunction against the online virtual PVR service Wizzgo. The programmes of TF1, France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5 and NT1 must be removed from the service within eight days. Wizzgo offers internet software allowing users to record programmes […]
Content licensing leaders NTTC, (National Telco Television Consortium) and SMS, Satellite Management Services, have forged a strategic relationship to provide increased options for IPTV and SMATV system operators in the US. The move is aimed at reaching farther and deeper into traditional residential style IPTV systems by adding a variety of content deployment products. "NTTC […]
Hulu, the video website owned by News Corp and NBC Universal, hopes to expand internationally and is interested in Britain, France, Germany and Japan. Peter Smith, President of NBC Universal International, told reporters that his firm would love to roll out the online video joint venture further but that there were no concrete plans to […]
GE has declared its interest in buying media assets in a sign that a slumping economy has not shaken General Electric's confidence in its television and film business, NBC Universal. Jerry Immelt, GE chief executive, told the FT the company had the resources to capitalise on bargains as it wades through the downturn. "There are […]
A study exploring consumer attitudes towards pay-TV services, with particular emphasis on consumer perceptions of telcos as providers of TV services, has found that price of service and discounts are particularly important for attracting new subscribers. The Making TV Pay study marks the first survey to explore the mindset of pay-TV subscribers after the credit […]
YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by Hulu – backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal – as the video-sharing site struggles to make its massive global audience appeal to advertisers. Hulu, a video site showing only professional TV shows and movies, is forecast to draw level with Google's YouTube in US advertising […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid SES Astra is to make a formal complaint before the European competition authorities against the Spanish Government for its alleged preferential treatment to Abertis Telecom in the deployment of DTT in the country. The Luxembourg-based company has accused the Spanish Administration of helping out its main competitor in the […]
The British public are adopting an on-demand lifestyle of choice and control enabled by converging technologies. The widespread take-up of online TV services like the BBC iPlayer , along with significant penetration and use of Sky+ and on-demand TV services is delivering a wholesale change to the way in which respondents relate to television programmes […]