Ofcom has awarded the local TV licence for Leeds to Made Television, giving the company chaired by former BSkyB executive and Top Up TV co-founder Ian West its fourth franchise. The group, which has already won licences for the cities of Cardiff, Bristol, and Newcastle, beat four other bidders for the right to broadcast the […]
Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell is launching a new weekly television listings magazine in the UK next month. The magazine, titled ‘TV Pick’, will be priced at 40p, 5p less than TV Choice – the current best selling TV listing publication. It is the first new weekly TV listings title to launch since 2005. Buyers […]
Howard Stern broadcasts daily on Channels 100/101 on US pay-radio service Sirius-XM. While he has something of a reputation for his uncensored radio show, he now describes himself as the “King of all Media”. Certainly he continues to shock his employers by maintaining a claim that Sirius-XM owes him a not so shocking $330 million […]
Opera Software has acquired Silicon Valley based Skyfire Labs, a specialist in mobile video optimisation and cloud solutions for mobility. Skyfire, headquartered in California, is known for its Rocket Optimizer software. This allows mobile operators to leverage cloud computing to optimise virtually any video and other multimedia on crowded cell towers, including 3G and 4G […]
Chello Central Europe’s children’s channel Megamax has been added to the UPC platform in Czech Republic. Megamax’s launch in Czech Republic follows the channel’s success in Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. Targeted at boys aged 7-14 years, Megamax offers local-dubbed versions of popular animated content from around the globe, including Transformers, Gormiti, Battle Force, Lego Ninjago, […]
Euronews has signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat, the leading operator in the UAE and the Middle East. Euronews is now available to the subscribers of Etisalat in the UAE, covering 450,000 households. Viewers can now watch world news 24/7 on Euronews in one of the ten proposed language services: Arabic, English, German, French, […]
Norway’s Telenor is a telco giant with business telephony interests throughout the world as well as Scandinavian subsidiaries such as Canal Digital (pay-TV), Conax (conditional access), Norkring (TV distribution) and its Telenor Satellite Broadcasting division. Group CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas has told analysts that Telenor saw “immense developments in our industry. The world goes digital […]
Elliptic Technologies, a provider of complete embedded security and content protection solutions, has announced that ST-Ericsson has selected the Elliptic hardware-assisted tVault HDCP solution to support the Wi-Fi (WFD) Miracast wireless technology on the NovaThor L8540 platform for smartphones and tablets. Elliptic’s tVault HDCP supports the recently released High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection 2.2 (HDCP 2.2) […]
Elemental Technologies, a supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced version 2.0 of its video processing software with unified support for multiple codecs, delivery standards and content protection technologies. The comprehensive functionality available with the latest Elemental software lets customers across market segments more widely deploy and monetise multiscreen video services. “With […]
Cisco is pressing ahead with the reshaping of its Service Provider Video Business from a low-margin set-top box business to what Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers described as a “profitable and strategic Videoscape architecture in the cloud,” building on the company’s integration of NDS. Chambers made his comments during an analyst call discussing […]