A report from investment banker Morgan Stanley says that despite this current first-half of the year showing some improvement in ITV’s all-important advertising revenues (up around 3 per cent), the prospects for the second half of this calendar year are looking bleak for the UK’s main commercial broadcaster. Indeed, the bank’s report says ITV’s advertising […]
France’s minister of culture, Aurelie Filippetti has said that the government would consider next year the possibility of extending the TV licensing system to computer screens. The TV licence, now called the contribution to the public audiovisual services, is used to finance public broadcasters France Televisions and Radio France. Every home with one or more […]
GlobeCast’s new IPTV platform, MyGlobeTV, has made its commercial debut with the launch of 16 premium Romanian-language channels to US viewers. MyGlobeTV is a television bouquet that brings international and thematic audiovisual content directly to subscribers in the Americas. This full end-to-end solution provides broadcasters the technical solution for reaching homes in the Americas, and […]
Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has agreed terms with the Board of Spectrum Interactive, a leading UK based Wi-Fi operator, for an offer to acquire 100 per cent of the shares for total cash consideration of £23.4 million. The deal will enable Arqiva to accelerate its wholesale mobile data business by acquiring […]
Sony and Panasonic’s joint plans for mass-production of giant OLED screens will start making an impact on availability in 2013. But don’t expect prices to come tumbling down soon. Both Panasonic and Sony will want to recover some of their initial R&D costs, so the retail cost of these 55″ behemoths will be high. Research […]
Sony has confirmed the purchase cloud gaming company Gaikai for $380 million. Gaikai is a cloud-based game service which allows users to play high-end PC titles by streaming the content via a broadband connection. Consumers never need to download the games, and don’t need advanced PCs to play because the content is running across the […]
Rightster, the video distribution and monetisation specialist, has announced the launch of Rightster Studios to finance original programming, TV shows, and channels online. Rightster is already a YouTube partner, and Rightster Studios will enable producers of all sizes – from independent viral video producers, to traditional production houses, to large news organisations – to create […]
Motive Television has revealed that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Motive Television Services, has signed a contract with CET 21, a subsidiary of Central European Media Enterprises (CME), to provide its Television Anytime Anywhere technology platform to support CET 21’s anticipated launch of a new television service using its Voyo content platform over DTT in the Czech […]
GlobeCast’s new IPTV platform, MyGlobeTV, made its commercial debut with the launch of 16 premium Romanian-language channels to US viewers. MyGlobeTV is a television bouquet that brings international and thematic audiovisual content directly to subscribers in the Americas. This full end-to-end solution provides broadcasters with not only the technical solution for reaching homes in the […]