Telesat Holdings has reported a bump in sales but a large decrease in profitability, which the company blamed on a large one-time insurance claim it received last year. The Canadian maker of broadcast satellites reported its full-year financial results, stating revenues for 2012 of $846 million, a five per cent increase over the $809 million […]
Not content with launching a channel dedicated to the world’s most enduring spy with its Sky Movies 007 service, Sky has revealed that it is working with Disney to create a brand new television channel, Sky Movies Disney, further strengthening its hold on premium film and TV content. The new channel will be the home […]
Virgin Media has created a channel for YouTube in its Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), enabling Virgin Media TiVo customers to access the video community’s online content from listings that have until now been available only to traditional linear broadcast channels. YouTube is the first app to be included in a TV guide and is available […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has signed a multi-year agreement with BSkyB to distribute the Sky Sports News HD channel on its Viasat satellite platforms. It marks the first time the channel has been made available to an international audience. MTG will include the channel in its Nordic offerings on an […]
Spanish broadcasting agency Abertis Telecom is to make the first worldwide UHDTV transmission at the end of this month within the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. An 84 inch TV screen will be used to test the quality of the UHDTV pictures that multiply by four the number of pixels on screen with a capacity […]
European fibre to the home (FTTH) deployment continues to grow steadily, but the gap between the leaders and laggards is increasing, according to the latest figures from the FTTH Council Europe, revealed during the industry organisation’s FTTH Conference 2013 in London. Russia has emerged as a clear fibre leader in the region. The country added […]
UK commercial network ITV will unveil its latest financials on February 27th, and the market expects the broadcaster to declare a strong upturn in advertising revenues, with a “strong start to ITV growth in January and February [which] has continued into March” as far as forward bookings are concerned. Investment bankers Morgan Stanley, in a […]
Conax, the content security company, has reported strong growth in 2012. In a competitive global market, Conax won contracts with 26 new pay-TV operators and Telcos and entered four new countries, extending the content security provider’s global reach to 85 countries. Norway-based Conax also had a record year for shipments, closing 2012 with a 20 […]
Egypt’s Radio & Television Union (ERTU), which supplies the nation’s public broadcasting, is facing ever-increasing debt burdens. The latest numbers, released by the broadcaster’s Head of News is that ERTU now owes 20 billion Egyptian pounds (about $2.9 billion). The debt seems to have expanded by about 1 billion Egyptian pounds in the last year. […]
PayWizard, specialists in payment and subscription management, has launched its TV and media, end to end payment and subscription solution. Using its modular Payment and Subscription platform, PayWizard combines payment processing, subscriber management technology and real-time customer service operations to tailor-make solutions that enhance the consumer experience across all screens. With 16.8 billion video-enabled devices […]