As widely trailed, UK regulator Ofcom has recommended to government that Channel 4 should be underwritten as a PSB broadcaster via a merger or partnership with either BBC World Wide, the commercial exploitation part of the BBC, or Five. It says Channel 4 should receive £130 million (E140m) a year from the BBC Licence Fee […]
Leading Italian broadcasters Rai and Mediaset, together with Telecom Italia Media, are to launch a free-to-air satellite platform in June. The venture is expected to employ Eutelsat’s Hot Bird satellite – already widely used by Italian DTH broadcasters. Unveiling the service, Mediaset chairman Fedele Confalonieri said the joint venture would boost competition with Sky Italia.
Warner Brothers Entertainment is to shed 10 per cent of all employees as the recession starts to bite in Hollywood. Warner plans to cut about 800 jobs with most of the cuts coming in information technology and support services. In a letter to Warner Bros staff, Barry Meyer, the studio's chairman, said the cuts reflected […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Portugal Telecom will air live coverage of 16 games of the Portuguese Football League (Liga Sagres) simultaneously on TV (Meo), mobile phones (Meo Mobile) and on the Internet (Sapo portal). The partnership between Portugal Telecom, public broadcaster RTP and rights holder Sportinveste Multimédia will permit the transmission of the 16 […]
The world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer has announced the loss of another 5,000 jobs as part of a SKr10bn (E920m) cost reduction programme, despite reporting better than expected results for the fourth quarter of the year. The company had 78,750 employees worldwide as of the end of December. Sales rose 23 per cent for the […]
Anevia, a video service infrastructure provider announced the launch of a carrier grade mobile video solution offering live TV, Video-on-demand and Time-shifted services – Pause TV, Start-over or Catch-up TV. To address the evolution of mobile TV Anevia launches a scalable and reliable mobile video solution aimed at mobile operators. Pierre Yves Le Berre, Anevia's […]
International managed network, hosting and telepresence company Easynet Global Services has successfully trialled a new service that allows broadcasters to use an IP network to stream high definition (HD) video content around the world. The Easynet service formed part of Sky News’ coverage of President Obama's inauguration in HD, giving viewers' around the world up […]
Sky has extended its deal to supply Channel Five with news programming, but a number of redundancies are expected as a cost-cutting measure. Five confirmed the extension to 2012 of the deal to produce Five News and that it may be necessary to cut the number of staff involved in producing the show to reduce […]
Digisoft.tv has been accepted as a member of the Open IPTV Forum, a pan industry organisation with the purpose of producing end to end specifications for IPTV that will take the next generation of IPTV to the mass market
Vectra is to continue its collaboration with TechniSat Digital to support planned growth in subscriber numbers from 175,000 to 240,000 in 2009. Vectra is Poland's leading provider of digital cable TV with 175,000 subscribers and availabile in 137 cities across the country. The range of digital receivers offered to subscribers is subject to continual development […]