The BBC Trust has said that iPlayer updates do not prioritise iOS. In a document published online, the Trust said that it found no evidence to suggest iOS had been “unfairly favoured”. The watchdog was investigating a complaint suggesting that certain features were implemented on the iPhone operating system before Android – primarily the ability […]
Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai said that it was “premature” to “speculate one way or the other” on whether the company would accept or reject the proposal from the company’s largest shareholder to spin-off as much as 20 per cent of its entertainment assets, including Sony Pictures Entertainment and the music division. On CNBC, Hirai said […]
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has belittled attempts by US Senator John McCain to reshape pay-TV bundling practices. Speaking at the Nomura’s Global Media & Telecom Summit in New York, Dauman told the audience that the Senator may have garnered publicity for taking a stand against pay-TV bundling but had no support from his fellow politicians […]
Spaniards prefer surfing through the Internet to watching TV to amuse themselves, according to a report from the consultancy firm Deloitte. The study with a 2,000 sample reveals that 55 per cent of the surveyed choose Internet rather than the TV in Spain in line with Italy but unlike other countries such as Germany, France […]
IDATE reports the global TV services market grew by 4.1 per cent in 2012. The TV service market totalled €329 billion and outperformed the consumer electronics market, which fell 7.1 per cent year-on-year to €260 billion. The top 10 media companies in 2012 were all in the US: led by Comcast/NBC Universal, DirecTV, Time Warner, […]
eyeIO has confirmed that its UltraHD compression encoding technology has been licensed by Sony Pictures to enable the studio to offer the first-ever 4K UltraHD content delivered to the home. Owners of Sony Electronics 4K UltraHD TVs will be able to access a selection of 4K movies delivered to their sets via Sony’s 4K media […]
Portugal ended the first quarter of 2013 with 3.13 million pay-TV subscribers, a growth of 7,000 subscribers on the previous quarter (+0.2 per cent) and 97,000 more (+3.2 per cent) on the same period in 2012, according to data published by the National Communications Authority (Anacom). Bundles supported by fibre optics (FTTH/B) grew by 5.2 […]
Mexico is enjoying continued demand for pay-TV. Growth in the year to March 31st was at a spectacular 12.4 per cent, taking the total number of subscribing homes to 13.3 million. Mexico’s COFITEL regulator says the market has a “new dynamism” from the various competitors, both satellite and terrestrial, with a broader range of prices […]
Heineken the brewer is to launch a YouTube TV series. The online series, entitled Dropped, is part of the latest stage of Heineken’s global multimillion-pound ad campaign which continues with a new TV ad, The Voyage. Heineken described Dropped as a “social experiment”, with members of the public encouraged to live outside their boundaries and […]
Channel 4 has revealed it will broadcast an exclusive themed ad break of French adverts with subtitles in the first episode of its new French zombie drama, The Returned, which airs on June 9th. The major brands interested to feature their French ads in the one-off break include L’Oreal, Renault, Bel Boursin and Emirates – […]