Disney-ABC Television Group and Verizon are making ABC’s video-on-demand offering available to Verizon FiOS TV customers across the US. ABC’s new content joins Verizon FiOS TV’s VOD library, which offers more than 11,000 titles per month, 70 per cent of which are free. Verizon, which delivers FiOS TV over the country’s most advanced fiber-optic network […]
KidsCo, the joint venture channel owned by NBC Universal, Cookie Jar Group and Corus Entertainment, has launched in Germany after it entered into an agreement with local cable operator, Unitymedia. The channel will broadcast a raft of educational programming and family movies.
Sony Pictures Entertainment is shaking up its online video hub with new management, headquarters and an infusion of full-length TV and movies from the Sony library to complement the increasing slate of shortform originals already rolling out. Sony has been gradually transforming Crackle, which it acquired in August 2006 when the site was a user-generated […]
Polish telco TPSA has finally launched its new DTH service. It comes as part of a package called neostrada tp z telewizja that includes internet access at speeds ranging from 512Kpbs to 2Mbps, along with telephony for those receiving it via ASDL. Subscribers are being offered 32 Polish and foreign TV channels, along with over […]
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) announced new data for Asia's pay-TV market, showing 71 million digital pay-TV households out of 300 million pay-TV subscriptions across Asia. "The increase in digital pay-TV market penetration represents a tipping point for our industry in Asia," said Marcel Fenez, Chairman of CASBAA. "This is especially […]
Erik Huggers, Director of BBC Future Media and Technology, has appointed Matthew Postgate Controller of BBC Research & Innovation. In his new role, Postgate will be responsible for shaping and leading all research and innovation activities to ensure value is delivered to the BBC, wider industry and academia. His duties will include creating and delivering […]
The North American IPTV and switched digital video (SDV) equipment market declined sharply in the second quarter of 2008, pulling the worldwide market down 5 per cent sequentially to $1.27 billion despite healthy increases in EMEA, Asia Pacific, and CALA, reports market research firm Infonetics Research. The dip in the overall market is due to […]
Some reports have suggested Hulu is looking for a tie up with Kangaroo as part of its international expansion, even that the UK service could take the Hulu name rather than the rumoured 'See-Saw.' However, sources suggest Hulu will play a waiting game and not decide on any move until after the result of the […]
AT&T has confirmed it will add up to 30 new HD channels next week at no additional charge to customers’ current U-verse HD service package. The US telco says the channels will give it more than 75 HD channels. The new channels include several regional sports networks, premium movie channels and basic cable networks.
AOL has confirmed it will adopt Brightcove for online video content management, publishing and video playback throughout the AOL Network. This partnership will combine AOL's video content offerings with Brightcove's online video platform. Beginning in early 2009, AOL Programming and AOL Video programming partners will use Brightcove to deliver all its video content. Brightcove's integration […]