TeliaSonera had 867,000 TV subscribers, including 477,000 IPTV subscribers, at the end of last year. The IPTV base grew by 99,000 in the course of the year, while its overall TV subscriber base grew by 98,000. The company saw IPTV growth of 27,000 in the fourth quarter, including 4,000 in Sweden. Telia's Swedish IPTV base […]
Sky has announced that Chase Carey, CEO of DirecTV, has resigned as a non-executive director to be replaced by Tom Mockridge. Mockridge is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Sky Italia and Chief Executive, European Television of News Corporation where he oversees News Corporation’s television operations in Europe, outside the UK.
NDS has deployed a complete end-to-end pay-TV broadcast system for Cignal Digital TV, the satellite-delivered digital TV platform in the Philippines recently launched by Mediascape. Mediascape has deployed a suite of advanced technologies from NDS. The solutions that comprise Mediascape’s new system include VideoGuard conditional access, MediaHighway middleware and a customised Electronic Programme Guide (EPG).
Motorola has broadened its cable passive optical network (PON) portfolio with Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG) solutions through a strategic agreement with Alloptic. The agreement between Motorola and Alloptic provides Motorola with exclusive rights to offer Alloptic's RFoG solutions to cable operators worldwide. The addition of these new products to Motorol'‚s existing portfolio of RFoG […]
RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, today announced that United Telecommunication Services (UTS), the parent company of TDS, the wireless cable service provider servicing the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Bonaire, has deployed RGB's Broadcast Network Processor (BNP) as a key element of its next-generation video delivery network. Working with Divitel, RGB's system […]
Cisco has released the results of a Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013, providing findings on a variety of IP networking trends driven largely by the increased use of mobile broadband applications. The Cisco VNI Mobile Forecast projects global mobile traffic to increase 66-fold between 2008 and 2013 with a compound annual […]
The approaching switchover to all-digital television in the US and other major countries will create an unprecedented opportunity for the mobile TV market, according to a study from ABI Research. While mobile broadcast TV was pioneered in Japan and South Korea, following the switchover traditional and mobile TV broadcasters and cellular operators in many regions […]
Disney has agreed a 30-film deal with film director Steven Spielberg and his DreamWorks venture. Disney will receive a fee for each DreamWorks film it distributes and markets through its global pipeline. Disney's pay-television deal with Starz, the cable channel owned by John Malone's Liberty Media, will see the DreamWorks included providing it with a […]
STAR, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation and Asia's leading media and entertainment company, has confirmed the appointment of Yeshpal Sharma as its Vice President of Distribution and Advertising Sales for the UK and continental Distribution and Sales and head of STAR's North American and European offices.
Alix Pryde is to become the new Controller, BBC Distribution. She replaces Richard Waghorn who has left the BBC to become Chief Technology Officer for SABC, the South African public service broadcaster. …………..