Sony has warned that it is on target to make its fourth annual loss in succession. It unveiled a 27 billion yen ($346m) loss for its second quarter, compared with a profit of 31 billion yen for the same period last year. The company said the strong yen, floods in Thailand, and weak demand in […]
BSkyB has succeeded in getting a Virgin Media direct mail campaign banned for potentially tricking consumers into thinking it was an official offer of a TV upgrade from its pay-TV rival – but lost a bid to stop Virgin being able to claim it offered a “better TV experience”. Sky lodged a complaint with the […]
Discovery Communications, whose cable networks include Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet, benefited from solid advertising sales at both its domestic and international networks, showing no ill effects from the grim economy. Revenues from fees it collects from TV distributors also surged. Overall, Discovery’s third-quarter net income rose to $237 million. That surpassed the $186 […]
Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has said that a Senate vote to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality rules might come as early as next week. The vote would happen just days ahead of November 20th, when the rules are scheduled to take effect. Hutchison said the necessary number of senators‚ signatures have been obtained […]
Two new DTT channels have been confirmed to launch in Italy this November. Radio Capital TV is a new music TV channel which is set to launch on November 11th on DTT in Italy. The channel, owned by the Espresso media group, will air music videos, with a special focus on “classics” from the 70s, […]
Independent producer Entertainment Studios has announced the launch of its global television subscription service platforms, SmartTV.com. The platform allows subscribers to watch live television and VoD on mobile devices, including Apple and Android devices, as well as Boxee and Roku set-top boxes. Subscriptions begin at $1.99 per month. “The SmartTV.com platform is a global game […]
Profits at Sirius XM Radio grew by more than 50 per cent in the third quarter, and its subscription numbers hit a record of 21.3 million but analyst were disappointment with Sirius’s subscription growth rate saw the stock fall over three per cent. For the three months ended September 30th, Sirius had $763 million in […]
Up to 50 per cent of all video ads served on YouTube are now skippable says the company. YouTube introduced the skippable format, In-stream, last December as the first of a series of interactive video ad formats launched under the TrueView brand. The In-stream format lets viewers skip the ad after five seconds and is […]
TV Everywhere and OTT TV created some sharp debate during the first day of the CASBAA Convention 2011 in Hong Kong. The onset of new and global Internet-delivered TV services such as Hulu, Netflix and iplayer as extensions of traditional cable, satellite and IPTV systems was declared as “inevitable” by many speakers and delegates drawn […]
Cable video gateways will grow from less than 700 thousand units in 2010 to over 10 million in 2016, according to ABI Research. Cable operators in North America and Europe are looking at advanced gateway products from vendors including Pace, Samsung, and Technicolor to deliver advanced services and content to every device in the home, […]