UK’s Freesat and Channel 5 have confirmed a marketing partnership, which will see Freesat sponsoring Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers, beginning on November 28th. The deal represents Freesat’s first programme sponsorship and comes one week after the launch of Freesat’s latest TV advertising campaign, which is running on Channel 5 (as well as the other main […]
Virgin Media has the biggest proportion of dissatisfied customers for landline, broadband and pay-TV services, according to Ofcom’s latest customer satisfaction tables. In September, the media regulator conducted 3,000 interviews and various online surveys of customers of landline, mobile, fixed broadband and pay-TV operators with a market share of 4 per cent or more. Virgin […]
Australian telco industry body Communications Alliance and five of the country’s largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have unveiled a scheme aimed at combating the growing problem of online copyright infringement. The scheme is designed to encourage a sustained and positive change in the behaviour of Internet users who engage in online activity that may be […]
China Telecom has opened tender bidding for IPTV platform expansion in six provinces. The expansion will take place in Fujian, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Hainan, Hunan, and Chongqing. Huawei, ZTE, UTStarcom, Cisco, and Channelsoft are among the firms invited to submit bids. The evaluation process will be 45 per cent based on technology, 35 per cent on […]
Colombia’s National TV Commission regulator says that pay-TV operators who under-report their actual subscriber numbers risk losing their licences. The Commission’s main director Jaime Andrés Estrada, said he has evidence that some operators are manipulating their subs data in order to boost their own revenues, and to reduce tax liabilities to the government. The reported […]
Bangladesh’s information minister Abul Kalam Azad says parliament was looking to increase the number of satellite TV channels permitted to operate in the country. A formal policy was now being drafted which would clarify the position for would-be broadcasters. According to a report from BBC Monitoring, 16 channels were now operating, five others had started […]
Korean electronics giant LG recently carried out a comparison test of its passive 3DTV technology with that of its 3D rivals’ ‘Active Shutter’ methods. LG used 4,000 ordinary Australian shoppers in a number of Westfield shopping malls to compare and contrast the technologies, and their ‘votes’ massively favoured LG’s Cinema 3DTV system over that of […]
Entertainment and technology retailer HMV and FilmFlex Movies have announced the launch of an HMV-branded movies-on-demand service. HMV is joining the growing band of businesses offering an online film rental service as it seeks to benefit from the increasing demand for digital film services and counter falling sales in its High Street stores. The service […]
Google has revealed that Walt Disney Studios has partnered with YouTube as the latest rental partner on the video site. Available on YouTube and Google TV platforms, Disney joins Sony Pictures, Universal and Warner Brothers as the fourth major studio to distribute titles on the service. Movies from Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks Studios will be […]
Paul Robinson, managing director of the KidsCo kids channel, has left the company according to reports. The channel is a joint venture between NBC Universal, Cookie Jar and Corus; Robinson and other founding execs have small stakes. Apparently Hendrik McDermott, head of business development, will be interim MD. There has been speculation NBCU is manoeuvring […]