Andy Duncan, the Channel 4 chief executive, has warned that the broadcaster faced the worst economic conditions in its history as he unveiled an extra 10 per cent cut in editorial budgets. Duncan said advertising revenue will be down 18 per cent year on year in the first half of 2009. Channel 4 cut 200 […]
The Federal Communications Commission wants US broadcasters to suspend regular programming and instead show a public-service ad about the digital transition for three five-minute periods on May 21st as part of an effort to make sure Americans are ready for the switch. The US was originally scheduled to switch to digital-only TV on February 17th, […]
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator, has licensed three consortiums, each led by the country’s three IPTV operators KT, SK Broadband and LG Dacom, to provide public service broadcasting over their broadband Internet networks. Some of the ideas suggested in the project including allowing viewers to call their sons in […]
Looking to expand the parameters of its Socialthing social networking news feed service, AOL announced plans to integrate the platform across the sites of Warner Bros. Television Group another unit of Time Warner. The service, acquired by AOL last summer, is designed to help users trace the Internet activity of friends. WBTVG will use the […]
Sky’s managing director of sport and news, Vic Wakeling is to retire at the end of June after 20 years with the company. He leaves after 15 years as head of Sky Sports. Barney Francis has been promoted from within Sky Sports to take over Wakeling’s role and will report to Sky chief executive Jeremy […]
BigBand Networks and LG Powercom have confirmed the commercial deployment of BigBand's video IP solution, vIP PASS, to deliver cost effective IPTV services to personal computers and IP set-top boxes over DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems. LG Powercom is a telecommunications service provider and has the largest HFC Networks infrastructure in Korea with over 2.3 million […]
QuickPlay Media, provider of solutions that manage the business of mobile video, has launched its PrimeTime2Go premium mobile TV service in the US for the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphones. The monthly subscription fee-based service enables consumers to download and watch the most recent episodes of popular shows on-demand. The service includes network […]
Pangea Media, a media platform for youth media and marketing professionals, has released the results of a jointly developed survey which tracked television consumption and viewing preferences of almost 2,000 of Pangea Media’s tween/teen users. The survey found that tweens/teens watch an average of five to 10 hours of TV content a week and prefer […]
Television remains the most effective medium for reaching today's youth, and it also is most efficient for introducing young people to brands and helping to shape their decisions about purchasing, according to study results released by MTV Networks International (MTVNI), a unit of Viacom. The study, "A Beta Life Youth," finds that one in four […]
The European market for consumer electronics will likely contract in 2009 by around nine per cent and reach a total turnover value of E62 billion according to international market research institute EITO. This is the first reduction in the market for consumer electronics since the middle of the 1990s. "The reason for the fall has […]