Administrators are hoping Setanta’s nine channels slots on BSkyB’s EPG , will net up to £1m, (E1.15m) in an auction. Deloitte has appointed Canis Media, the TV channel management company to handle the sell-off. Canis Media said there were also an unspecified number of unallocated digital EPG channels slots available. In late 2007 BSkyB said […]
As part of its campaign against the suggestion of regulated prices, and reserving more events for FTA, BSkyB has claimed that income from broadcasting plays a "key role in supporting the financial sustainability of many sports". According to research commissioned by Sky, revenue from broadcast rights represents a "substantial" part of the total funding for […]
The struggling commercial broadcaster is shutting its small Future Technology R&D division and has made four of its seven staff redundant, including the department's director Simon Fell. Fell was responsible for launching ITV.com, ITVPlayer, mobile and HDTV platforms as well as an overlay video ad format which allows for ads to be inserted during online […]
As part of the continuing trend towards networked home entertainment, television sets will increasingly include wired or wireless connections to online content. A study from ABI Research forecasts that in 2011, some 20 million TVs offering wireless connectivity will be shipped worldwide. This segment is expected to show linear growth through the study's forecast horizon […]
A study by the International Intellectual Property Alliance says that if America isn’t careful, the music industry's piracy problems will hit the movie business. The study suggests that those industries are responsible for far more of the country's economic gains than is widely believed — more than 25 per cent of the US economic growth. […]
After an internal re-org the telco's CTO Matt Bross has left the company and returned to the US, seven years after joining. As well as leading the 21CN network project, Bross was also CEO of BT's Innovate division, which was merged with the Design division this month. BT hasn't announced a replacement though chief information […]
The number of subscribers worldwide to telco/IPTV services will approach 40 million by year-end 2009, according to international research firm Parks Associates. The strong growth is due partly to aggressive provider deployments according to the firm, the most successful rollouts will incorporate multiple services, such as home networking, convergence in entertainment and communications features, and […]
Due to strong government support for the nationwide digital conversion, the Chinese domestic set-top box market has not been negatively influenced by the current worldwide financial crisis, although exports of Chinese STBs have been somewhat negatively influenced due to diminishing overseas demand. An IMS Research report forecasts that, except for the cable STB and grey […]
Americans are getting more channels – and they're watching more TV than ever. In 2008, the number of channels available in the average US TV household was 130.1, according to Nielsen Media Research. That's more than double 2000, when the average was 61.4. In a given week, the average household tuned to 17.8 channels, or […]
Civolution, a provider of technology and services for identifying, managing and monetising media content, has acquired the Software & Technology Solutions (STS) watermarking business from Thomson. With this acquisition Civolution says it will be able to offer a broader and richer portfolio of content identification and tracking technologies to enhance its current technologies, products and […]