Mobile operator O2 has unveiled its new mobile TV service. However, the service is only available on certain handsets, with the iPhone absent from the list. The mobile TV package will be divided into two offerings: the lifestyle pack, which includes entertainment, music, and news from channels such as RTE News Now, CNN and the […]
Television advertising still has the greatest impact on consumers according to a survey published by Deloitte/YouGov on behalf of the Edinburgh International Television Festival. Of the 2,123 UK viewers polled, 64 per cent of respondents ranked television commercials as the advertising format with the most impact. Television advertising had the most impact on young viewers, […]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, crumbling under the weight of a $3.7 billion loan, has ousted its CEO, Harry E. Sloan, in favour of the turnaround expert Stephen F. Cooper, who ran Enron during its bankruptcy. Once the most powerful studios in Hollywood, MGM has not released a movie since "Valkyrie" in December and will release only one film […]
Under Digital Britain proposals the government set a target to reduce illegal filesharing by 70 per cent within a year, and has instructed Internet service providers to write letters to people spotted downloading copyrighted content, backed by the threat of court action against persistent offenders. Under the Digital Britain proposals, if that did not have […]
Australian Internet service provider iiNet has revealed that it is planning to launch an IPTV service shortly, with introduction in the first half of next year deemed most likely. “It will probably be in the first half of next year,” said Michael Malone, Managing Director of iiNet. “We are still playing around with our own […]
Reports in Germany say that Vodafone Germany has stopped marketing its ADSL-based IPTV service to new customers. Instead the telecoms company is preparing a new IPTV offering, with a possible launch in mid-2010. Until then, Vodafone will revise the offer, developing and exploring increasing convergence between fixed line and mobile services. 'We will tailor our […]
Top US media companies and marketers have created a consortium to challenge the dominant force in TV audience measurement. Nielsen currently controls US audience measurement through the polling of 18,000 homes, where viewer habits are measured by clicks of a special remote control. Media participants in the consortium – including NBC Universal, Time Warner, News […]
Cindy Rose is joining Virgin Media as executive director of television, where she will lead Virgin Media's strategy for TV, including development of its digital platform and market leading video-on-demand service. Rose was most recently as SVP & Managing Director, Disney Interactive Media Group (EMEA). Neil Berkett, chief executive officer of Virgin Media, said: "Cindy […]
BskyB has written to the BBC Trust expressing "serious concerns" about its handling of Project Canvas. The Trust's conduct of a consultation process on Canvas "will only serve to undermine further industry confidence in its ability and inclination to act as a genuinely independent regulator of the BBC", Sky said. Since February, the Trust has […]
Sweden based DTT platform Boxer is under pressure in the highly competitive Scandinavian pay-TV market. In Sweden and Denmark Boxer netted 673,000 subscribers as of June 30, 2009. A year ago in the Sweden alone the figure was 701,000. In the last year Boxer has handed back its licence to operate the DTT platform in […]