Margaret Thatcher’s funeral on April 17th was the third most-requested live TV programme ever on the iPlayer, with nearly 823,000 requests for real-time viewing of the event. It was topped only by the London 2012 Olympic games in terms of viewer numbers. The funeral received a total 986,000 clicks, meaning that 163,000 people requested it […]
South Africa’s struggling pay-TV operator TopTV is arguing that its heavyweight rival Multichoice is acting in an anti-competitive manner. TopTV’s parent company with South Africa’s Competition Commission by On Digital Media (ODM) itself in the process of being bought by China-backed StarTimes Group, lodged a formal complaint some months ago, although the complain is still […]
American mobile video watchers are almost twice as likely to watch videos shared by friends as they are via web search, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of web TV content sharing site Telly. The study – conducted online in April among over 2,000 US adults – reveals that 78 million […]
South Africa’s much delayed roll out of digital terrestrial TV is happening, insists the nation’s Minister of Communications. Dina Pule told South Africa’s parliament that more than 80 per cent of the population would be able to receive DTT signals by the end of the year. Pule was presenting his ministry’s budget to parliament, and […]
A report published by the Politecnico di Milano and Studio Frasi on the evolution of the Italian TV market from prime time to non-linear viewing, has provided new data on time shifted and on demand viewing which gives a clear picture of this market and its potentials. Findings include: – 31 per cent of Italian […]
SES has further increased its household reach in the Benelux countries in 2012 to over 1.2 million homes. With a 19 per cent increase compared to the previous year, Belgium topped the Benelux growth in Astra satellite homes. In Luxemburg, the number of household receiving programmes directly from the SES fleet increased by 16 per […]
Russia’s Krunichev space centre, responsible for the manufacture of its Proton rockets along with the Briz-M booster, says it will launch a dozen vehicles this year. Three had already been launched and a further nine would be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Khrunichev CEO Alexander Seliverstov told reporters. Washington-based International Launch Services […]
As the Formula One circus enjoyed its glamour weekend in the principality of Monaco, the prospect has emerged of the sport adopting an online streaming model to complement its live broadcast TV coverage, according to Autoweek. Under current arrangements, the rights to broadcast races online reside with F1’s national broadcast partners who are responsible for […]
Mexico’s US border cities of Mexical, Monterrey, Ciudad Juarez and Reynosa, will not see their analogue TV signals switched off this year. Mexico’s government says that it doesn’t have the resources to convert the border regions to digital TV, and says that it still has to find $130 million – $150million to make the necessary […]
Cuba will start testing its Chinese version of digital terrestrial TV in June, Cuba has adopted China’s Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast standard (DTMB) and will start testing in “real conditions” around Havana, the capital. As part of the tests the Communications Ministry will be distributing set-top box decoders to various neighbourhoods to ensure adequate transmissions […]