Thinkbox has announced that Leila Travis, currently Total Media’s Head of TV, is to join the organisation as its Head of Planning. She will start her new role on April 29th. As Thinkbox’s Head of Planning, Travis will be responsible for running Thinkbox’s planning team, including overseeing the development and management of Thinkbox’s planning tools, […]
Ocean Blue Software’s Sunrise DVB stack and PVR core support Broadcom’s chipset range for set top boxes. Ocean Blue’s broadly deployed middleware solution is now available for Broadcom’s set-top box chipset range, offering a feature rich capability for DVB-T/T2, S/S2 and C solutions. This includes Freeview HD, PVR, USB PVR, and MHEG-5 that can be […]
CET Teleport has signed a three year contract with SES for NSS-12 Ku-band capacity linking Europe and East Africa. CET has seen substantial demand for satellite services in this region and the East Africa beam has proved immensely popular with both operators and end-users. CET has been steadily building up its portfolio of satellite capacity […]
Vodafone will launch new services including pay TV, CEO Vittorio Colao has told the Mobile World Congress. Colao confirmed Vodafone would launch ‘unified’ service packages and said he was looking at a number of acquisition targets. Colao’s comments come as it was confirmed the mobile giant had hired Sachs to advise on a possible €10 […]
The EU says it will take treaty powers to force through plans to create a single market for mobile services. Neelie Kroes, Europe’s digital commissioner, told MWC in Barcelona that she will ‘outline an “action plan” to put the region at the heart of the mobile industry it established and once dominated.’ She says there […]
TiVo Research and Analytics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TiVo, has announced the launch of TRA Cross Media Measurement, which enables advertisers, agencies and television networks to measure household-level exposure across TV and online advertising campaigns and content for more than 100,000 households – the industry’s largest single-source, naturally occurring data set of its kind by […]
Ooyala, the video streaming, analytics and monetisation platform provider, has released its Global Video Index: 2012 Year in Review, offering key insights into how viewers watch video online around the world. The Video Index affirms that consumer video viewing is shifting online and explains why content providers are experimenting with new types of premium content […]
News Corp-backed Sky Deutschland will unveil its full-year results on February 28th, and investment banker Morgan Stanley, in a note to clients, suggests there will be few surprises in the numbers. The bank expects Sky Deutschland to confirm gross subscriber additions of 260,000 in Q4, although churn for the quarter rose from 12.4 per cent to […]
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, together with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Abertis Telecom, SAPEC, Sony, Apuntolapospo and URL La Salle have demonstrated the first Ultra High Definition 1 (UHDTV 1) DVB-T2 broadcast, in Barcelona at the MWC. The terrestrially distributed transmission, using 3840×2160 pixel resolution known as UHD-1 – four times the resolution of current […]
The cost of broadcast rights for Latin America’s six strongest First-Division football leagues has surpassed the $1 billion mark for the first time in the region’s history. Research by Dataxis showed that the main domestic professional soccer competitions organized by the local federations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru attracted a combined $1.07 […]