Further ramping up its content exclusivity as it competes with other online entertainment platforms, streaming subscription service Hulu Plus has revealed that what its CEO Mike Hopkins describes as some of the most hilarious TV comedies and addictive reality shows, many of which have never been available in their entirety on-demand, are coming exclusively to […]
RealNetworks has confirmed that RealPlayer Cloud, its integrated video player and cloud service app, is one of the first apps available on Amazon Fire TV. With the addition of Fire TV, the Amazon and RealPlayer Cloud communities now have an all-new way to watch their video collections on their big screens from the comfort of […]
Technicolor shipped its 300 millionth CPEs (Customer Premises Equipments), consisting primarily of digital STBs and broadband gateways, in 2013, with more than 60 million featuring carrier grade Wi-Fi. Technicolor shipped its first digital set top boxes to DirecTV in 1994. In 2013, Technicolor shipped 32.5 million CPEs to its diversified customer base around the world. […]
Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge will return with a new series on Sky, as well as a big screen sequel, its makers have confirmed. Henry Normal, co-founder of Coogan’s production company Baby Cow, said a sequel to the fictional Norfolk DJ’s film début, last year’s Alpha Papa, was in the pipeline, along with a new series […]
UKTV, owners of a portfolio of ten TV channels, has sold dozens of hours of its popular programming directly to Foxtel and BBC Worldwide’s BBC Lifestyle channel. UKTV’s Head of Programme Distribution, Jonathan Newman, commented: “During the past 12 months UKTV has been in conversation with a wide variety of overseas broadcasters about its past, […]
Factual channel specialist Discovery is launching a new programming model, New Form, and linking with the creative expertise of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment to turn out new content. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is expected to make a formal announcement April 3rd, but the concept is to appeal to younger viewers who are […]
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) encouraged the European Parliament to support net neutrality in advance if its April 3rd vote on the Telecoms Single Market Regulation. They commended the work of the Parliamentary Committees that have issued opinions on the dossier suggesting the Parliament has […]
Netflix France will launch this autumn, but from its European headquarters in Luxembourg, thus side-stepping anticipated heavy regulations on what Netflix can supply to users. Netflix will thus be exempt from obligations to invest into French audio-vi8deo content, and free of the obligations to charge 19.6 per cent TVA on its sales. Rivals to Netflix, […]
Satellite services provider Intelsat and Canal+ Overseas, the largest French-speaking pay-TV operator in the French Overseas Territories, have renewed and expanded a multi-transponder, long-term agreement on Intelsat 903 at Intelsat’s 325.5°E video neighbourhood. CANAL+ Overseas will use the high power Ku-band satellite capacity to further expand its high definition, direct-to-home (DTH) programming in the Caribbean. […]
O2 Media has formed a partnership with UK-based Grabyo to bring its real-time video platform to the US for the first time. Broadcasters and Production companies can use Grabyo’s cloud-based studio to distribute live TV clips to millions of viewers in real time, through multiple social media platforms and as a seamless experience on any […]