Paris-based The Strategic Investment Fund, Eutelsat’s second largest shareholder with a 25 per cent stake, said yesterday that it had no intention to withdraw from the satellite operator. “The performance of the company and its future strategy does not lead us to consider disengagement,” said Thierry Sommelet, Director of Investment at SIF, talking to La […]
Virgin Media has confirmed a multiscreen deal with Channel 5 to bring programming from all of Five’s linear TV channels to its TV, online and mobile video on demand platforms from November. The addition of Demand Five to its TV On Demand service at no extra cost to customers makes Virgin Media the only TV […]
Verizon FiOS TV has launched its Flex View platform allowing subscribers access to the telco’s VOD offering outside the home on a variety of portable devices, including laptops, smart phones and tablets. Initially, users can download for purchase or rent over 1,400 movie titles on Flex View, with the amount of content growing to 2,000 […]
BBC’s quasi-interactive Red Button service has high reach but isn’t appreciated enough to justify its cost the BBC Trust has concluded. The Red Button cost £39.3 million (E44m) in 2009/10 and had 12 million users a week. The Trust and BBC management say it’s not yet clear how Red Button will figure in YouView’s IPTV […]
Fox has joined the other US networks and taken its shows off Google TV. However Crackle,, the online gateway to Sony Pictures Television is now available on Google TV Sony Electronics makes a GoogleTV. Crackle, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s premium video entertainment network, has built an optimised website for Google TV, its ad-supported service features original […]
Viacom’s third-quarter earnings disappointed as the company announced plans to sell the division that produced the disappointing video game Rock Band. Net earnings were $189 million down from $463 million a year ago. The result includes a $299 million loss from discontinued operations including the Harmonix video game unit. Net earnings from continuing operations rose […]
The president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks called on the media, entertainment and CE communities to agree on a single, unified platform for the delivery of Web video to the television. At a conference in San Francisco ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller outlined how “Platform Chaos” – the fragmentation of countless video devices and technologies — must […]
Widevine has revealed Panasonic has selected it as its preferred provider of video optimisation and digital rights management (DRM) solutions. Widevine’s video optimisation will provide adaptive streaming and virtual DVD experiences, while its DRM will keep content protected on Panasonic consumer electronics such as Viera connected TVs, Blu-ray disc players and more.
Hulu should more than double revenue this year to $240 million, its chief executive Jason Kilar has said, as rumours of an IPO grow. Kilar said Hulu delivered videos to 30 million viewers in the past month and has more than 235 content partners. Launched three years ago, Hulu is now the second-largest Web video […]
The president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks has called on the media, entertainment and CE communities to agree on a single, unified platform for the delivery of Web video to the television. At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller outlined how “Platform Chaos” – the fragmentation of countless video […]