Viacom reported higher fourth-quarter net income thanks to the box office and solid performances at its cable networks. Net earnings were $576 million up from $189 million a year ago. Revenues rose 22 per cent to $4.05 billion. “We enter a new fiscal year with a proven track record of managing our operations effectively in […]
A majority of consumers are unhappy with the amount of commercial messages they see on social networks, a global survey has found, even as Facebook and Google+ introduce more brand advertising to their online communities. About 57 per cent of social network users in developed countries – and more than 60 per cent in the […]
Viasat Broadcasting announced that its Viaplay online pay-TV service is available to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users in Denmark, Norway and Sweden from the App Store. Subscribers to any of Viaplay’s three online TV packages (‘TV’, ‘TV+Film’ or ‘TV+Film+Sport’) can use the new app to access Viaplay’s multi-screen, on-demand video streaming service, which is […]
The Copyright Protection Centre of China has reported it has deleted more than 400,000 unauthorised Internet audio and video links since June 2010. As part of the country’s efforts to crack down on rampant copyright infringements, the centre launched services for both domestic and overseas copyright owners last summer. Since then, it has detected more […]
Hybrid Television Services, the licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand and the creator of CASPA On-Demand, has launched a limited edition, TiVo 1TB media device. The device is branded as TiVo XL reflecting the increased capacity of the hard drive from the original 320GB size to 1 Terabyte (TB) in recording capacity. […]
Dubai-based Arabic broadcaster MBC has apologised for accidentally showing a movie containing a nude scene. ‘Into the Wild’, directed by Sean Penn, showed a scene of partial nudity which normally would have been edited out. The film was shown on its MBC Max channel. The movie created something of a storm on social network site […]
Steve Coogan’s latest Alan Partridge outing, Mid Morning Matters, is reportedly set to get its UK TV premiere on Sky Atlantic. The BSkyB pay-TV channel is in pole position to land the rights to the show, first aired in November last year online in an initiative funded by Foster’s beer. Mid Morning Matters was streamed […]
Eleven employees from cinemas across the UK have been presented with awards totalling £7,000 for their efforts in preventing illegal recordings taking place. At a specially-convened ceremony at Paramount Pictures, London, each received a cheque for several hundred pounds for their part in thwarting attempts to record films at their cinema. The Federation Against Copyright […]
Digital Rapids has announced that Turner Broadcasting System is using a large-scale deployment of Digital Rapids’ StreamZHD multi-format encoding systems and the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager automated transcoding software to transform live feeds and on-demand content for delivery to multiple viewing platforms in support of Turner’s multi-screen video offerings and the pay television industry’s “TV […]
The BBC Trust has softened the corporation’s approach to BBC content being available on other VoD platforms outside the iPlayer. The broadcaster had earlier stipulated its content should only be syndicated on-demand via the iPlayer being integrated into the third party platform and preserving the iPlayer ‘look and feel.’ The BBC Trust has now said […]