BBC Worldwide has sold its 50 per cent share in its global TV channels joint venture with Discovery for $156 million. The sale comes nearly 12 months after a BBC Trust review said the corporation’s commercial arm should sell its non-BBC branded international channels. The BBC sold its 20 per cent interest in Animal Planet […]
Cyfrowy Polsat SA, Poland’s biggest satellite television broadcaster, has agreed to buy Telewizja Polsat SA, its parent company which is also controlled by billionaire Zygmunt Solorz-Zak , for 3.75 billion zloty ($1.3bn). Cyfrowy will pay 2.6 billion zloty in cash and the rest in the form of 80 million new shares valued at 14.37 zloty […]
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland has started testing its super-fast broadband delivering 1.17Gbps downstream. The field trial in Hamburg is being conducted in partnership with Cisco. According to the company it has proved that it is possible to deliver speeds in excess of 1Gbps over an 862MHz HFC network. KDG CTO Lorenz Glatz said that […]
Richard Horwood, once head of Mirror Group newspapers, has talked to government UK advisers about a national channel with multiple local opt-outs. Horwood, who once managed Trinity Mirror Television which included Live TV, is thought to be proposing to launch Channel 6, which would serve 25 million homes with a skeleton of national programming and […]
Online TV is a growing market, with the number of providers and variety in services strongly increasing, according to Goldmedia. Currently, there are 1,275 online TV channels in Germany, with about 151 million videos watched daily, mainly on free platforms (96 per cent). By 2015 Goldmedia predict that figure will nearly triple to almost 390 […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) has entered into a strategic cooperation with LG Electronics. Viasat is making its Viasat OnDemand Internet pay-TV services available directly on all LG TV sets in the Nordic region enabled with NetCast functionality effective immediately. The OTT solution is available to customers with Viasat OnDemand accounts by simply connecting the TV […]
Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand (SCENZ) has confirmed it will launch PlayTV, a HD PVR, for viewing via PlayStation3 on any TV. PS3 owners in New Zealand will be able to watch, pause and record Freeview/HD digital television, either on a big screen TV, or when they are on the go with PSP (PlayStation Portable), […]
TV makers have condemned the poor quality of the present HD TV that the commercial (private) DTT channels -Antena 3, Tele 5 and La Sexta- are offering inadequate bandwidth for the channels in their respective multiplexes. The broadcasters are dedicating only 6 to 7 Megabits per second to their HD TV channels, out of the […]
Telefonica’s IPTV service Movistar Imagenio continues leading the growth in the Spanish pay-TV market with an increase of 18.2 per cent in the number of its subscribers to 773,000 in the third quarter of the year. The company, with a market share of 19 per cent, captured 26,000 new clients in the third quarter, up […]
Research from The Diffusion Group (TDG) has discovered that iPad Users and Intenders—those who own or are likely to purchase an iPad in the next few months—are significantly more likely than average adult broadband users to either downgrade or ‘cut the cord’ and cancel their PayTV service. “Despite the fact that cord-cutting remains more widely […]