Pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland is reportedly looking to exit its contracts which give it semi-exclusive TV rights to the Formula One series of Grands Prix. Not content with potentially upsetting car racing fans, CEO Brian Sullivan also told the Financial Times German edition that he also wanted to look again at his coverage of Germany’s […]
Netflix has unveiled a new interface for Android-powered tablets that makes browsing and instantly watching unlimited TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix ‘better than ever.’ It says the redesigned Netflix experience is much more immersive and provides more focus on the growing Netflix catalogue by displaying twice as many titles than the previous interface. […]
US local TV station groups covering 76 million American homes are partnering with ConnecTV to launch a free second screen application in early 2012 that will offer viewers additional content and social media features tied to live TV. As part of the agreement, a number of the broadcasters have also made an undisclosed investment in […]
Loral Space & Communications says it may be buying back up to 800,000 of its own NASDAQ shares for cancellation. There’s no set timetable for the purchase, and the buy-back will depend on the market price and availability of stock. Loral has 21.2 million voting common shares outstanding and 9.5 million non-voting shares outstanding as […]
Disney-ABC Television Group’s ABC Entertainment and the Warner Bros Television Group (WBTVG) have reached a wide-ranging agreement regarding the digital distribution of series produced by Warner Bros Television for ABC for the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons. Under the terms of the new agreement, ABC has the ability to distribute any series produced by WBTVG during […]
The Australian producers of acclaimed drama The Slap have succeeded in shutting down a Netherlands-based piracy website used by some 40,000 Australian and New Zealand expats to watch local shows illegally. The site, diwana.org, is run by an Australian expat and is popular with expats and others based overseas seekibg to access Australia and New […]
Arianespace and DirecTV have agreed a new launch contract for a satellite providing services for DirecTV Latin America. The launch will take place in 2014 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane 5. DirecTV has exercised an option in its multi-launch contract with Arianespace for the launch of an additional satellite that will […]
France Telecom-Orange and SFR have signed an agreement that marks a step forward in the deployment of optical fibre outside very densely-populated areas of France. Out the 11 million households outside very dense areas that are covered by the fibre deployment plans drawn-up by France Telecom-Orange and SFR, 9.8 million are in agglomerations where both […]
Despite increased revenues (up 16.1 per cent to $28.6 million) Israel-based satcoms specialists RRsat saw its overall Q3 position move to losses of $200,000 (last year, same Q3 period, net income of $600,000). RRsat says its expects Q4 revenues to be in the range of $27 million-$29 million, which will take its full year revenues […]
Verivue announced that it will join forces with itaas, RGB Networks and Verimatrix to deliver a fully integrated solution to network operators seeking to deploy a live multiscreen TV Everywhere service. Verivue is offering its OneVantage content delivery solution, which when used in conjunction with RGB Networks’ multiscreen transcoding and packaging solution, with DRM from […]