NOOK Media, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, has announced it is expanding its catalogue of entertainment content with the addition of the Google Play on its NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ devices. “By adding Google Play to NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, we are offering our customers even more great entertainment on our award-winning […]
Telesat of Canada is to order a new craft to replace Telstar-12 at 15 degrees West. However, first the Ottawa-based company has to resolve key frequency issues with Russia, which holds some valuable priority rights to transmission capacity from the orbital slot. Russia’s RSCC is planning to launch a new satellite, Express-AM8 next year to […]
The BBC’s new £133 million (€164m) digital video archive – which was meant to make the redeveloped New Broadcasting House tapeless – is not functioning, according to The Guardian, with tape editing machines having to be installed as a result. The mess is completed because the BBC’s shiny new headquarters were not designed for the […]
The Industry Trust for IP Awareness and Warner Bros Pictures UK have released a trailer for the upcoming sci-fi movie Pacific Rim that promotes the value of a great movie experience. Running in cinemas, digital, online and social media, the exclusive 30-second trailer celebrates the visual mastery behind the forthcoming movie and directs audiences to […]
BSkyB’s Q3 numbers reveal Sky subscribers are watching more on demand content than ever with the average number of weekly downloads reaching 4.5 million in the first three months of the year, an increase of 460 per cent on the same time last year. Sky added 30,000 new television subscribers in the first quarter with […]
BT Vision has awarded the TV advertising sales contract for its new sports channels to Channel 4, in a three-year deal worth up to £40 million (€49m) over the period. Sky and Channel 5 also bid for the contract. Channel 4 also handles the TV ad sales for third parties including UKTV, home to channels […]
Following the admission by John Whittingdale, Chairman of the UK House of Commons Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, that a Communications Bill was unlikely to feature in the government’s legislative programme for 2013-14, Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has revealed that a Communications Green Paper – a […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital TV in the UK, has published the first status update of the government-backed Future of Innovation in Television Technology (FITT) Taskforce. Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey MP announced the publication of the update in his keynote speech to delegates at the […]
Decipher has published its quarterly audit of VoD on the major UK DTV platforms and OTT services. One of the key changes in the landscape of UK VoD in the last six months has been the introduction, and then the rapid growth, of catch-up content on Sky. This was historically an area that Sky was […]
John Whittingdale, Chairman of the UK House of Commons Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, has admitted that the coalition government’s proposed Communications Bill is unlikely to feature in the Queens Speech scheduled to be presented to Parliament May 8th. The Queen’s Speech includes issues that are expected to be the subject […]