Sky Movies is inviting families to ‘Step into the adventure’ this Christmas with its new campaign promoting the films premiering on the platform this December. Debuting during The X Factor ad-break on November 8th, the advert’s starring family are transformed into a variety of animated versions of themselves and taken on a journey though the […]
KMTelecom, the Minnesota-based service provider, has completed the latest phase of its IPTV rollout deploying Amino set-top boxes across its FTTH network. Seen as a model for rural broadband deployments in the US, KMTelecom has invested over $6 million over the last seven years in bringing FTTH to communities in and around the communities of […]
The Brazilian channel, entirely dedicated to fishing contents, owns a system developed by the Spanish company and its local distributor Video System, with VSNEXPLORER as a production Media Asset Management for Adobe Premiere CS6 in HD, a VSNMATIC Playout server with automation, a HD VSNCG character generator and a VSNARCHIVE deep archive integrated with SGL […]
CBS has concluded its deal to have its programming be part of Sony’s upcoming OTT service, says CBS CEO Les Moonves. Speaking during a third-quarter earnings call, Moonves revealed that CBS has “reached a historic over-the-top agreement with Sony for rights inside the home.” “Sony along with others who are getting into this space represent […]
EE, the UK MNO, has launched EE TV – which it dubs “‘the UK’s most advanced home TV service” – in EE stores nationwide. EE TV says it puts mobile at the heart of the TV experience, working seamlessly with TVs, tablets and smartphones around the home to deliver the best of live and recorded […]
The Spanish pay TV market is recovering thanks to Telefonica’s boost with Movistar TV. For the fourth quarter in a row, the pay-TV business has experienced a significant growth ending the second quarter of the year with 4,309,356 subscribers, up from 3,969,823 the previous quarter and 3,771,617 in the same period last year, according to […]
Despite many stories of Sky Deutschland shareholders being disinclined to accept the terms on offer by BSkyB, it seems 87.54 per cent of Sky Deutschland’s shareholders have accepted the BSkyB offer of €6.75 BSkyB, in a regulatory statement issued early on November 6th, said the acceptance period ended as planned on November 3rd and the […]
The 4K/UHD format is the driver of growth within the flat panel television category, with US sales reaching $668 million so far this year, now accounting for more than 7 per cent of overall revenue through October 25, 2014, according to The NPD Group’s Weekly Tracking Service. “This has been a year of increased awareness […]
With the consumer shift from viewing TV over multichannel subscription video services to watching Internet video via a broadband or WiFi connection, as well as the growing popularity of watching video across a wide range of devices, today’s households are taxing metro residential backhaul networks like never before, according to findings from network specialist Ciena […]
Liberty Global has completed its tender offer for Dutch cable operator Ziggo and will now own 100 per cent of the firm’s outstanding shares. CEO Mike Fries confirmed that Liberty will immediately begin the integration of Ziggo and UPC Netherlands. “As we leverage the incremental scale provided by Ziggo, which will expand our total customer […]