DTG members are about to begin work on the evolution of the technical specification for digital terrestrial television (D-Book 8) to introduce support for Freeview Connected and much more, with Working Group meetings due to begin after the summer break. Simon Gauntlett, the DTG’s Chief Technology Officer, has circulated a plan of activity to the […]
The rationale underlying several decades-old media ownership rules that broadcast television stations only compete against themselves in local markets is simply not true, the National Association of Broadcasters has said in comments filed with the FCC. The Commission should adjust its rules to better reflect today and tomorrow’s marketplace that features competition from rival industries […]
The UK government’s rollout of superfast broadband has now reached more than 1 million homes and businesses across the UK. The £1.7 billion nationwide rollout is firmly on track to extend superfast broadband to 95 per cent of UK homes and businesses by 2017. The rate at which the fibre technology is being rolled out […]
A major report on “Rupert, the Bear” and BSkyB’s expansion into Europe, from Berenberg Bank reads: “BSkyB is going from a relatively simple, cash-generative business with an underleveraged balance sheet, returning cash to shareholders, to a highly-leveraged, complex business that will need to lower leverage before it can consider a return to buybacks. In some […]
Back in May the Thailand interim government ordered hundreds of satellite channels off the air. The nation’s National Council for Peace & Order slowly allowed most of them to restart retransmissions, but 12 allegedly “politically leaning satellite channels” are still banned. Now, the National Council says the banned channels must be renamed and their content […]
The UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has arrested a man in the East Midlands city of Nottingham on suspicion of running an ‘umbrella’ website providing access to other websites which have been subject to legal blocking orders. The 20-year-old man was questioned by detectives from the City of London Police unit at a local […]
Loral Space & Communications, which owns a majority stake in Canada-based satellite operator Telesat, is still up for sale despite the expiration of the ‘sale’ deadline by co-investor in Telesat, PSP Investments. However, any sale also has to cope with an on-going legal dispute between its former subsidiary Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and satellite broadband operator […]
US cable TV network AMC Networks has reported a 37 per cent rise in quarterly revenue as its international business got a boost from its purchase of Chellomedia. Net income from continuing operations fell to $58.7 million (€43.8m) in the second quarter ended June 30th, from $135.7 million a year earlier. Revenue rose to $522.1 […]
Mobile screen time is leading the way in Australia according to data released by IAB and Nielsen which shows that 52 per cent of digital screen time is spent on mobile devices. The findings, which come from the second round of data in the IAB / Nielsen Mobile Audience Panel Pilot study, found that average […]
TalkTalk, Britain’s fastest growing TV service, has launched a new International TV Boost, bringing popular entertainment and sports programmes from Brazil to its one-million plus TV customers. TalkTalk TV will add two Brazilian channels to its line up of world TV content. Customers can watch Globo, a TV channel that offers the best Brazilian entertainment, […]