Microsoft is likely to report a quarterly loss after taking a $6.2 billion charge against its balance sheet in writing down the value of its aQuantive online advertising service, bought in May 2007, almost to zero. The decision reflects its inability to produce further revenue from the service. The company blamed the setback primarily on […]
Kenya’s communications ministry has given its approval to the ending of analogue broadcasting in the East African country. Kenya’s capital city Nairobi will go dark as far as analogue TV is concerned, as planned, at the end of August, followed by the coastal region of Mombasa and then Kisumu. Information minister Bitange Ndemo says the […]
British Eurosport will launch a HD simulcast channel on the Sky platform from July 25th. This will be followed some five weeks later by the launch of British Eurosport 2 HD, meaning both channels will be fully HD on the Sky platform for the first time. Luke Bradley-Jones, Sky’s Brand Director, TV Products, said, “Adding […]
Disney/ABC Television Group’s Digital Media team has signed an agreement with video technology company FreeWheel to manage its advertising and monetise its content across digital channels including video, display, and mobile formats on ABC.com, ABCFamily.com, and ABCNews.com. ABC is deploying FreeWheel’s flagship product, Monetization Rights Management (MRM) to better manage advertising sales rights, forecast advertising […]
Rentrak, an expert in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising, television and entertainment industries, has announced the company’s new Studio Share module to the OnDemand Essentials system. This new module is the first to provide a transparent view of competitive video-on-demand (VoD) information and industry data to participating motion picture studios. This transparency allows movie […]
Following a period of beta testing, the BBC has launched its live, interactive video player in advance of the London 2012 Olympics. The player combines HD video with relevant data designed to enhance the viewing experience. Writing in a BBC Internet blog, Alex Perry Product Manager, Interactive Video Player, BBC News & Knowledge, explained that […]
A BBC director has called on mobile network operators to pay for the costs of filters to stop 4G mobile services interfering with Freeview. John Tate, Director of Policy and Strategy for the BBC, told The Independent that operators should be forced to pay the costs of signal filter equipment under the ‘polluter pays’ principle, […]
An 11th hour agreement was reached over the weekend which kept AMC network’s bouquet of channels on air with AT&T’s U-Verse subscribers. Terms were not revealed but both parties to the squabble, which had threatened to bar viewers wanting to watch AMC’s Mad Men series, said that a “fair distribution agreement” had been reached. However, […]
Telefonica in an attempt to boost pay TV consumption, has launched a new mobile application that will inform viewers about just released films available on Movistar Imagenio, its VoD service Videoclub or on DTT. Called POPCHA!, the app is accessible free of charge through Apple Store to be used initially in iphones but with plans […]
Boxee and Comcast have announced a new agreement that will let Boxee users access encrypted basic cable channels. The deal includes both a short- and long-term solution for the problem. In the short-term a “high-definition digital transport adapter with an ethernet connector” is being developed, which will grant people with an IP-capable Clear QAM box […]