From David Del Valle in Madrid The consolidation of Spanish TV is turning out to be more complicated than expected. Prisa, owner of commercial TV channel Cuatro and DTH platform Digital Plus, and Imagina, ultimate owner of TV channel La Sexta, have abandoned their negotiations to merge their TV divisions, Cuatro and La Sexta. Disagreements […]

Sky Media and Discovery’s TV ad sales current deal expires at the end of 2009 and no renewal yet agreed, the two companies are at loggerheads over the amount of ad revenue Sky Media pays Discovery. Discovery, which is believed to be claiming up to £14m (E16.3m) in unpaid ad revenue, took Sky Media to […]

EchoStar and its spin-off Dish Network declared their half-yearly results with profits down but subscription numbers up. EchoStar Corp, which operates the satellites more than doubled its profits in Q2 earning $101.8m (against $47.8m the same period last year). But the company's revenues fell 21% to $383m from $483.3m. The company blamed lower set-top box […]

FiOS TV subscribers now can enjoy more home-entertainment choices as Verizon continues to expand its video-on-demand (VOD) programming with several new offerings. FiOS TV customers now can watch the AMC hit show “Mad Men,” shop any time with HSN, and watch classic and contemporary Disney movies and animated shorts from Disney Family Movies. Also, new-release […]

RGB Networks, a specialist in network video processing, has upgraded its Dynamic Bandwidth Manager (DBM) VOD transrater to support the MPEG-4/H.264 video format. As cable operators around the world are increasingly taking advantage of the advanced compression capabilities of MPEG-4/H.264 to deliver bandwidth-hungry high definition (HD) video and an ever-increasing array of on-demand services, they […]

Harmonic has announced that SKY Brasil Serviços, Brazil's largest direct-to-home (DTH) satellite video service provider with nearly two million subscribers, has rolled out its new HDTV service based on Harmonic's market-leading MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) digital video delivery solutions. Powered by Harmonic's DiviCom Electra 7000 encoders, ProStream 1000 stream processing platform with DiviTrackIP statistical multiplexing, and […]

DS2 and Comtrend Corporation announced that Comtrend's Power Grid 902 adapter, based on DS2’s Aitana powerline communication chipset, has been selected by Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) to create a secure and reliable home network to deliver quick and convenient access to content and entertainment on SingTel’s IPTV service, mio TV. DS2 is a leading technology […]

Following a nine month study, PA Consulting Group has completed a report for UK's Ofcom to predict any potential pressure on spectrum availability across the UK over the next 15 to 20 years. Spectrum is a finite and valuable resource, and PA's report shows both supply and demand for spectrum under a number of different […]

Following a nine month study, PA Consulting Group has completed a report for UK's Ofcom to predict any potential pressure on spectrum availability across the UK over the next 15 to 20 years. Spectrum is a finite and valuable resource, and PA's report shows both supply and demand for spectrum under a number of different […]

DVR specialist TiVo has unveiled a first look at its Pure Programme Ratings, which were derived using the number of TiVo subscribers viewing a programme, live or Time-shifted, excluding the commercials, to arrive at the total potential audience for the commercials during a given programme. Current industry services measure a programme's viewership rating without separating […]