Advanced Television

Green light for Sky Italia F1 HD

Sky Italia is following in the wheeltracks of its British counterpart by launching its first HD channel exclusively dedicated to Formula 1 – Sky Sport F1 HD. The new HD channel will broadcast live all the 2013 Grand Prix races, ten of which will be exclusively live. Along with the live broadcasting of the races’ […]

February 19, 2013By Colin Mann

4G fails to boost EE

Britain’s biggest mobile phone company has reported a slowdown in revenue growth – despite being the first UK carrier to launch a super-fast 4G mobile Internet service. EE gave no details about how many of its 26.8 million subscribers have signed up to the new service, saying only there has been “solid early 4G momentum”. […]

February 19, 2013

Kenya confirms DSO date

Kenya was due to switch off its analogue TV transmission in Nairobi, the nation’s capital, on December 31st 2012. The rest of the country was then expected to speedily follow. That date was missed because of the shortage of set-top boxes, and lack of public awareness about the adoption of digital TV. A new date […]

February 19, 2013By Chris Forrester

Discovery’s Zaslav for MIPTV keynote

MIPTV has confirmed that David Zaslav, President & CEO of Discovery Communications, will present a keynote address on April 9th as part of MIPTV’s Media Mastermind keynotes series. MIPTV will take place in Cannes from 8th – 11th April. Zaslav sets the strategy and oversees all operations of the media company that reaches more than […]

February 19, 2013

Verimatrix secures Com Hem advanced multi-screen services

Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, and Swedish triple-play operator Com Hem, have confirmed that the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) has been selected to secure Com Hem’s advanced multi-screen TV services scheduled to launch Spring 2013. The new service will be delivered […]

February 19, 2013

Agama selected by TV 2 Norway

Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, has announced that Norway’s leading private broadcaster, TV 2, implements an Agama solution for service quality assurance in its sophisticated head-end and distribution environment. With the solution, TV 2 can ensure what enters and leaves its head-end and distribution sites really is the best it can be. […]

February 19, 2013

Tata Sky and Technicolor extend contracts

Technicolor has won two extension contracts from Tata Sky, India’s leading satellite operator with over 8 million subscribers. Tata Sky has granted Technicolor an extension until mid 2015 of the initial contracts for the STBs already delivered over the past years: “Technicolor’s solutions have met our expectations in terms of reliability because we want to […]

February 19, 2013

Sport’s mad!

There’s a lot to do with sport that is linked in some way to insanity. This is because the definition of insanity is to continue to repeat the same behaviour and yet expect a different outcome. Any of us that support a football team (or any other variety of team) year in, year out, knowing […]

February 18, 2013

BT to buy ESPN UK?

ESPN joins a long line of previous challengers to BSkyB’s strong hold on prime sports coverage in the UK and Ireland. BT is reportedly about to buy the channel as the Disney-owned service throws in the towel. And thus ESPN UK joins Setanta, BSB, ONdigital/ITVdigital, Homechoice TV, TopUp TV and even Virgin Media in the […]

February 18, 2013By Chris Forrester

Nielsen: Over 80% watch online video at home

Innovations in technology, a multitude of connected devices, and evolutions in the media distribution landscape have provided more ways than ever to consume media across different screens, whether at home, at work, or on-the-go. To understand how consumers around the world are responding to this fragmented media environment, Nielsen surveyed online consumers across the globe […]

February 18, 2013