Net Insight, a provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, has announced that the management of Net Insight will change effective immediately with an ambition to become a more sales and market oriented company. CEO Fredrik Tumegård is now changing the management team of Net Insight in order to […]
Civolution, a provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetising content, and De Agostini Editore, an Italian multinational specialist in creating content, products and services, have confirmed launch of Super!, a 2nd screen app targeting the Italian youth market. “We are the first in Italy to deploy a 2nd screen app with a […]
Russia Market Briefing 2014 Russia and adjacent territories are among the media markets tipped to experience significant growth in the years to come. Read Advanced Television’s overview of the sector and its prospects, plus the rest of the issue here…
ITV has confirmed it will be launching ITV Encore later this year, a new pay channel dedicated to the best of the broadcaster’s content. ITV Encore, which will be available on Sky’s platforms, will be ITV’s first new channel launch in eight years and forms part of a wider four year partnership with Sky. The […]
The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service saw a record three billion programme requests in 2013 – up 33 per cent on 2012, with 2.2 billion requests for BBC TV shows and 800 million BBC radio requests across all platforms. Rapid growth in mobile and tablet viewing continued throughout 2013. By the end of year, the BBC […]
Italy will call a tender for the auction of DTT frequencies next week. The news was announced by Antonio Catricala, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, on the sidelines of a workshop on online copyright in Rome. Catricala also said that leading Italian broadcasters RAI, Mediaset and Telecom Italia Media would be excluded from the auction. […]
According to the National Audit Office (NAO), the body which scrutinises public spending on behalf of the UK Parliament, the BBC Executive was too optimistic and did not have a sufficient grip on its Digital Media Initiative (DMI) programme, nor did it commission a thorough independent assessment to see whether the project was technically sound. […]
TV ad-spend is off to a good start in Q1 according to a report from banker Morgan Stanley. The bank has taken advice from many of its broadcasting contacts and the overall mood is optimistic. “Our German and British contacts were bullish. Our French contacts were cautiously optimistic. Our Spanish contacts were also optimistic but […]
UKTV’s entertainment channels Watch, Gold, Dave and Alibi have joined Sky’s On Demand service. The news follows the launch of catch-up services for Watch, Gold, Dave and Alibi on Sky Go last year, meaning Sky TV customers can access UKTV’s entertainment shows on their TV or on a multitude of devices, whenever and wherever they […]
US cable giant Comcast has revealed that profits soared 26 per cent in Q4 2013, and that it had finally put the brakes on a trend of customer losses. For the three months ended December 31st, Comcast added 43,000 net video subscribers – marking the first time in nearly seven years that the company did […]