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 […]
Envivio announced that its Mobile Series video encoding platform has been installed by Digita Oy. Digita Oy, which is owned by France's TDF, is Finland's leading distributor of radio and television services. The Envivio platform is being put to immediate use to deliver ten channels of high quality, DVB-H encoded, free-to-air and pay-tv mobile television […]
A ChangeWave survey of 2,922 U.S. and Canadian consumers identified winners and losers in the current market share battle among TV service providers. According to the survey, Cable (65%) still owns the bulk of the TV market, even though it's been slowly ticking downward for much of the past 2+ years. At the same time, […]
Sky Deutschland (formerly Premiere) lost 7,000 subscribers during the second quarter of the year and reported losses of over E360m. The pay-TV operator ended June with 2.364 subs against 2.371 at the end of the previous quarter. While the operator attracted 23,000 monthly contract customers, it lost 30,000 Flex subscribers during that time, overall churn […]
Boxee has closed a $6m round of financing led by Boston-based General Catalyst with participation by prior investors Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Neil Sequeira from General Catalyst will join the board. The web to TV company, who suffered a blow recently when Hulu withdrew their service, says the investment will go to improving […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Spanish dominant broadcast network operator, Abertis Telecom, has backed out of the deal reached with two local broadcast networks in Andalucia and Madrid, Axion and Teledifusion de Madrid, to take over them, following the Competition Authorities imposing tougher conditions on the operation. Abertis Telecom had planned to take […]
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has banned a Sky+ HD advert for misleading the public over costs. The ASA received complaints about BSkyB relating to a TV campaign pushing “free installation” as part of a cheap sign-up deal. Seven viewers said that when they telephoned to enquire about the offer they were told it was […]
Danish telco TDC reported 1.195 million TV customers at the end of June, up 6.3% year-on-year. The figures include analogue and digital cable subscribers of its YouSee cable operation and IPTV subscribers. TDC had 1.292 million retail broadband customers at the end of the first half, up 9.5% year-on-year. Wholesale broadband customers numbered 118,000, down […]
NBC Universal Global Networks has appointed Paul Curtis to the new role of VP, commercial strategy, for its portfolio of UK channels including Sci Fi, Hallmark Channel, Movies 24 and Diva TV. Curtis, a former deputy MD of Sky's in-house sales arm Sky Media, will report to Laurence Dawkin-Jones, MD (UK) NBCU Global Networks. Curtis […]
Ericsson Nikola Tesla has signed IPTV contract with main Georgian mobile operator Magticom. The contract is worth over 17 million kunas. This end-to-end IPTV solution will consist of Ericsson middleware, Tandberg TV headend with initial capacity of 74 TV channels, Video on Demand (VoD) functionality, along with satellite antenna subsystem and set-top boxes, as well […]