The new 24-hour news and entertainment channel for the Latino market in the US is to be called Fusion. Its backers are Univision and ABC News, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, and it has carriage deals covering at least 20 million homes. Fusion will have its premiere late this summer as the first […]
Belgian cable company Telenet will distribute €950 million to its shareholders this year after a strong year in which customers flocked to its new mobile offering. Telenet, in which US group Liberty Global has a 58.3 per cent stake, said it would pay shareholders 7.90 per share and buy back shares worth an additional €50 […]
Foreign suppliers of set-top boxes have captured some 95 per cent of India’s demand for digital TV converter equipment, according to statistics from India’s Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DEITY). DEITY says that in the six months to November 2012 about 10 million cable boxes were imported, and a further 4 million for DTH […]
Amazon’s Lovefilm has extended its content deal with BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. There was already a programming agreement with Worldwide, but the new agreement gives it rights to a wider range of content from the distributor. Jim Buckle, managing director at Lovefilm, said: “The evolution of our TV offering has been […]
CBS and Amazon.com have signed a licensing agreement for the new CBS television series Under the Dome, establishing an in-season, online subscription-video-on-demand (SVoD) window for the show on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service. Prime Instant Video will be the exclusive online subscription home for Under the Dome. The serialised drama from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television […]
London based broadcast specialist Vision247 has acquired Fora, a Slovenian IPTV software solutions company in a deal valued at more than €2 million. The acquisition expands Vision247’s leading role as a provider of over the top (OTT) internet delivered television services to incorporate triple and quad play models for large telecom operators globally. Vision247 says […]
Doctor Who will celebrate its birthday this year with a special 3D edition on November 23rd – exactly 50 years after its first ever adventure. Viewers will be able to see the 3D version of the episode entitled “An Unearthly Child” on the BBC HD channel. Doctor Who’s executive producer and lead writer, Steven Moffat, […]
AMC’s smash hit series The Walking Dead drew 12.3 million viewers on Monday evening (February 12th) as it returned from a midseason break – easily setting a record for the largest US audience to ever tune in for a scripted cable drama. Moreover, 7.7 million of those viewers were in the advertiser-friendly 18-49-year-old demographic, a figure […]
ThinkAnalytics, the specilaist in multiplatform TV search and recommendations, has revealed that recent customer signings have increased its customer base to over 40 operators and 100 million licensed subscribers. ThinkAnalytics closed out 2012 by doubling its revenue and profits over the previous year. Recent new customer signings include: US based Cox Communications, Swisscom, Unitymedia in […]
When setting up its new facility in Beijing in 2012, Hong Kong-based post house Digit Digit again opted for future-proof DVS storage systems. Four SpycerBoxes Ultra with a total capacity of 288 TB build the technological backbone of the company. The SpycerBox storage setup provides unprecedented performance. Hanover/Beijing. Hong Kong-based post production studio Digit Digit […]