Total consumer spend on video entertainment in Germany will increase by 2 per cent in 2014 to over €6.9 billion after 5 per cent growth in 2013, and is on course to reach a total of €7.4 billion by 2018, according to findings from research and knowledge-based consulting company Futuresource Consulting. This growth is primarily […]
Getting anything decided, let alone implemented, is a near-nightmare. India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry has decided to again set new dates for the implementation of its Digital Addressable Systems ruling, to December 2015 for Phase II cities and the following year, December 2016, for Phase IV smaller cities and towns. The existing rules (issued in […]
Disney is turning to OTT to reach 20 to 30 year-olds as pay-TV growth slackens, Ben Pyne, president of global distribution at Disney Media Networks told the CTAM EuroSummit . “In the United States, we roughly have 100 million multi-channel households and there’s been tremendous growth in households. But…. there’s only so many households in […]
Telefonica and Cisco have joined forces to set up an advanced testing platform to jointly explore and capitalise on the benefits of converged IP and optical networks. Both companies aim at improving efficiency and cost savings by unifying the planning, management and engineering of optical network layers and IP network layers thanks to the convergence […]
To bring together the world of entertainment, communications and the Internet, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) announced that INTX: the Internet and Television Expo will be held on May 5-7, 2015, in Chicago. This new live, interactive event will draw everyone from network operators and content creators to technologists and thought leaders to […]
French TV regulator CSA has extended until March 2015 the authorisation for TDF to trial DTT broadcasts of service B2M (Broadcast Mobile Multimedia) using DVB-T. TDF broadcasts the service from the Eiffel Tower transmitter in Paris. CSA has asked TDF to send to report its conclusions after the experiment. The B2M consortium, which includes AirWeb, […]
Doha-based beIN Sports has added a third channel to its existing pair of sports channels, which mostly carry soccer matches. Its channel 3 will carry rugby, basketball, handball, athletics, judo and volleyball. The channel comes ‘free’ to existing subscribers who pay €12 a month. BeIN Sports claims more than 2.5 million subscribers, and added 850,000 […]
Telecom Italia put out a stock exchange statement Sept 17 firmly denying reports that its Brazilian subsidiary was interested in buying Oi, a Brazilian telco and satellite broadcaster. The filing denied numerous media reports that Telecom Italia was speaking to advisors about using TIM Brasil to buy Oi in a move to challenge local rival […]
FOX Sports, FOX International Channels’ sports network, has secured exclusive broadcast rights (cable, satellite and terrestrial) and multi-media rights with The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC) to The Championships, Wimbledon for another six years, from 2015 – 2020 in Asia. The announcement of the deal today at the Sports Matters conference, held […]
International brand and media group TRACE has signed its first carriage deal with Swisscom. The distribution agreement will include TRACE Urban SD & HD, an international Hip-Hop and R&B music channel, and TRACE Tropical SD & HD, combining top music videos and documentaries covering a large spectrum of Latin American and Caribbean music genres. Both […]