This weekend is Carnival in Rio, as well as in many other countries in the build-up to ‘Fat Tuesday’ (Mardi Gras) events around the world. TV has the Rio de Janeiro event well covered with TV Globo and Japan’s NHK using around 150 technicians to cover the event. The signals are also being streamed on […]
The Croatian Post (Hrvatska Posta) has launched an advertising campaign for its pay-TV service on Digital Terrestrial Television, as part of a full commercial launch, following a low key rollout in November 2012. Evotv is broadcast in DVB-T2 technology, with signal coverage of 80 per cent of Croatian households (increasing to 95 per cent in […]
Although US network CBS generated nearly $240 million in gross ad revenues from last week’s Super Bowl, after factoring in licence fees and production costs the event likely broke even or lost a little money for CBS according to SNL Kagan. However, the network can also generate higher ad dollars for the pre- and post-game […]
EE will roll out 4G across 27 more towns by mid-2013. The rollout will take place between April and June, incresaing EE’s 4G coverage from 45 per cent of the UK to 55 per cent before the start of the summer. The towns set to benefit from the latest rollout aree Aldershot, Ashford, Basildon, Basingstoke, […]
Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace have announced the signature of a long-term multiple launch services agreement which guarantees launch capacity and flexibility to Eutelsat for its industry-leading expansion programme. The agreement covers up to four launches in the 2016 and 2017 timeframe, with the assignment of each satellite to a launch vehicle to be made at […]
Rentrak, a company that measures movies and TV everywhere, has announced a multi-year TV Essentials and Station View Essentials contract with Havas Edge, the agency that is part of the Havas Worldwide Network. With Rentrak, Havas Edge will receive television-viewing information from more than 20 million TVs in over eight million households to garner deeper […]
Motive Television, the London-based television software and services company, has entered into an agreement with Siyaya Free To Air TV of Johannesburg, South Africa. Motive will provide advisory services to Siyaya in conjunction with Siyaya’s application to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) for a broadcasting services licence. This agreement follows the Memorandum […]
James Murdoch, Deputy COO, speaking at News Corp’s results, said he thought the Liberty – Virgin deal would ‘do little to change the competitive landscape.’ Chare Carey, COO, said News Corp would ‘stay the course’ with BSkyB, but admitted the question of its long term future still exercised News management: “Over time, we need to […]
Spain’s Telefonica is reportedly holding negotiations with Prisa and Liberty to acquire the majority of stakes in digital DTH platform Canal Plus, in which it already owns 21 per cent bought in 2009 for €470 million. Prisa’s financial difficulties are plaguing the company. With a debt of over €3.1 billion, it is selling its media […]
Time Warner reported fourth quarter operating income up 16 per cent, driven by record profits at Networks and Film and TV Entertainment. For the year OP was up 4 per cent on 2011 to $6.1 billion. Full-year Revenues decreased 1 per cent from 2011 to $28.7 billion, as growth at the Networks segment was more […]