Radio and Television Shanghai has signed a five-year deal with Ningxia TV to allow CBN to provide the new Ningxia Satellite service with around 17 hours of live programmes a week. CBN is the wholly owned subsidy of Radio and Television Shanghai, which specialises in business and financial information. It is expecting to enhance market […]
XYZnetworks has signed a multi-year volume deal with RDF Rights, part of the RDF Media Group. Under terms of the deal, XYZnetworks agrees to acquire a minimum of 300 hours of first run exclusive content across its portfolio of channels with equal footing to FTA television to acquire key titles. RDF is a major distributor […]
Federica Aperio, UK managing director of Fox Networks, the UK online sales and ad network of Fox International Channels (FIC), has left the company after two years. Aperio had been responsible for overseeing sales, publisher services and ad operations for all products. Prior to joining .Fox, she served as publisher services director for Advertising.com.
Comcast the number one US cable operator, reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on as it added more Internet and phone subscribers. Net profit rose to $955 million from $412 million a year earlier. Revenue rose 2.9 per cent to $9.07 billion as the cable company added a net 247,000 high-speed Internet customers and 243,000 digital […]
YouTube last month went into the digital movie rental business with five independent films tied to the Sundance Film Festival. The company said the five films, which were available for 10 days, received a combined 2,684 views. At $3.99 per rental, YouTube netted $10,709.16. But Google-owned YouTube said it was happy with the test. “It […]
NBC Universal plans to measure audience exposure across all of its media platforms to provide “unprecedented insight into consumer cross-platform behaviour and advertising effectiveness” during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The effort will build on the pioneering research conducted during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. NBCU says it will launch its second Olympic research lab during […]
Verizon, in an agreement with NBC Universal, has announced a multi-platform content offering that will make the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games available to Verizon‚s FiOS TV, broadband and wireless customers. Beginning with the opening ceremony on February 12th, Verizon will offer subscribers access to content across multiple platforms, including an enhanced, interactive TV experience, […]
The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC), a broadcast industry organisation dedicated to accelerating over-the-air Mobile Digital Television, is teaming with Harris Interactive, a global market research firm, and Rentrak, a specialist in multi-screen media measurement, to study consumer usage habits during OMVC’s Mobile DTV Consumer Showcase in Washington. With more than 30 television stations now […]
Less than one year after its debut for the iPhone and iPod touch, more than 1 million users have downloaded the DirecTV DVR Scheduler app. The app is now available on Android devices and the Palm Pre and Pixi.
Widevine and Qtv have announced that they will partner to bring Widevine's video optimisation and multiplatform Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to the Qtv Internet TV Media Player for the television, mobile phone and personal computer. The Qtv Internet TV Media Player gives consumers the unique ability to access and play both personal and Internet-based […]