NBC Universal has parted company with Ben Silverman, its colourful programming head, who leaves to form a new venture with Barry Diller's IAC media group. Silverman had made a name for himself with Reveille, the TV company he started, which brought UK TV formats to the US and turned them into ratings winners. He also […]
Europe’s biggest mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, has said it was on track to meet its full-year targets and aimed to split its TalkTalk telecoms business from its Best Buy Europe retail venture in March. There is also a potential foray into an IPTV service, which the company is considering following the acquisition of Tiscali, […]
Dutch telco KPN hay reported a 4.8 per cent rise in second quarter net profit as cost cutting offset a revenue decline, but it lowered its revenue guidance for the full year and for 2010 as the economic downturn hits demand from businesses. KPN now expects both 2009 and 2010 revenue to be in a […]
Sonic Solutions and Widevine are enabling the delivery of premium movies on USB flash memory devices. The self-contained CinemaNow USB Movie Drives will include an integrated media player as well as the necessary video codecs to enable instant high-quality PC playback of movie content offline. Once connected to the Internet, consumers can add the title […]
BSkyB has added a better-than-forecast 124,000 subscribers in the past three months, hitting a total of 9.4 million, boosted by price cuts and promotion for its high-definition TV service, with new customers joining at the fastest rate for five years. Announcing a four per cent rise in annual profits for the 12 months to the […]
UK terrestrial channel Five has signed up to be a joint venture partner in Project Canvas. The formal expression of interest from RTL-owned Five means it joins fellow broadcaster ITV and telecoms operator BT in the venture get the green light. Channel 4, which has been eyeing Canvas closely, has not yet joined the project […]
UK telco BT has reported a sharp drop in quarterly profits, with pre-tax profit dropped 45 per cent to £272 million (E317m) in the three months to June 30th from £497 million in the same period a year earlier. The company cut 2,300 jobs from the global IT services division during the quarter, as it […]
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) released new details about the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES), scheduled for January 7-10 2010 in Las Vegas. Instead of the 110,000 CE industry delegates and 2,700 exhibitors that signed on for CES last year, CEA is predicting just 100,000 attendees and 2,000 exhibitors will make the trip in 2010. […]
Almost a fifth of UK consumers are set to reduce what they spend on pay TV because of the recession, according to a study by YouGov for Callcredit Marketing Solutions. The survey of 2,500 consumers found that 18 per cent are planning to cut back on pay-TV services provided by broadcasters such BSkyB and Virgin […]
The share of online adults who watch videos on video-sharing sites has nearly doubled since 2006, according to a survey by the Pew Research Centre’s Internet & American Life Project. Audiences for Web sites like YouTube and Google Video continue to grow swiftly across all demographic groups, far outpacing the adoption rates of many other […]