Fox International Channels (FIC) has confirmed the appointment of Alberto Rossini to Vice President, Head of Entertainment of Fox Channels Italy. Rossini will join the group in January 2012. In his role, Rossini will oversee all aspects of Programming, Production, On Air, Broadcast Design and Acquisitions for the group’s pay-TV entertainment channels: Fox, Fox Life, […]
AMC Networks has confirmed that Bruce Tuchman is joining the company as President, AMC/Sundance Channel Global, the company’s international division. Tuchman joins AMC Networks from MGM Worldwide Networks, where he served as President since 2001. In his new role, Tuchman will lead the strategic expansion of the company’s global business, including the distribution, programming and […]
MStar Semiconductor, a semiconductor company for display and digital home solutions, has revealed its solution is being adopted by Toshiba in its new TL & RL TV series which are currently being released. With MStar’s solution and support, the TL & RL series will enable the user to merge broadcast TV network and broadband contents […]
SES has confirmed that the QuetzSat-1 satellite is fully operational and ready for service. QuetzSat-1 was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on board an ILS Proton Breeze M booster on September 30th, 2011. QuetzSat-1 is fully contracted to a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation. The spacecraft is an all Ku-band high-powered (20-kilowatt) communications […]
Chile’s Telefónica del Sur, part of the Grupo Gtd telecommunications group, has deployed a VideoBRIDGE end-to-end monitoring and analysis system which includes Bridge Technologies’ VB220 probes for advanced digital media monitoring of its IPTV services. Chile’s fourth-largest telecommunications company and the country’s first to introduce IPTV services, Telefónica del Sur offers Internet, cellular, and fixed […]
Chile’s Telefónica del Sur, part of the Grupo Gtd telecommunications group, has deployed a VideoBRIDGE end-to-end monitoring and analysis system which includes Bridge Technologies’ VB220 probes for advanced digital media monitoring of its IPTV services. Chile’s fourth-largest telecommunications company and the country’s first to introduce IPTV services, Telefónica del Sur offers Internet, cellular, and fixed […]
Sharpstream are rolling out the Adswizz intelligent advertising system onto their content delivery network. Adswizz – not available before via a UK distributor – offers ad replacement services and detailed analysis of listener figures for its clients. The technology allows stations to gather lots of information on who is listening and target ads accordingly. It […]
Logitech has pulled the plug on Google TV set-top boxes, saying consumers just aren’t ready for the device which merges television and the Internet. “Google TV or the child of Google TV or the grandchild of Google TV will happen,” said Guerrino De Luca, the chairman and acting chief executive of the Swiss computer peripherals […]
ITV achieved £1.51 billion (€1.75bn) revenue in the first nine months of 2011 as its ad revenue edged up 2 per cent against market trend, though it was only 1 per cent ahead of last year in Q3. Meanwhile, in production, ITV Studios revenue was up 9 per cent to £224 million on strong international […]
Channel 4 has kicked off a trial to explore what kind of bespoke content best suits the features of the social, second-screen TV app Zeebox. Zeebox, a cloud-based service designed to synchronise a user’s Twitter and Facebook social graphs to let viewers synchronise what they are watching on TV, launched last month. The app, which […]