Apple has deployed its own content delivery network in the US and Europe, and negotiated interconnect deals with a significant ISPs, including Comcast, according to a report on Streamingmedia.com. Apple has put in place access to 10 times the capacity it is currently using according to the report. While content from iTunes is currently delivered […]
Mediaset, Italy’s largest broadcaster controlled by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has reported a Q2 loss as a slowdown in southern Europe cut demand for advertising. The net loss was €8.1 million ($10.9 million) compared with a €20.8 million profit a year earlier. Sales were little changed at €904 million. Mediaset is working to improve […]
Telefonica is on track to reach its target of 1.5 million pay-TV subs in 2014. The company reached 1.4 million subscribers to its pay-TV service Movistar TV at the end of July, after signing up 200,000 clients in a single month. The company has doubled the number of subscribers in a year thanks to its […]
Spain has approved a €10 million state subsidy to finance the simulcasting of public (National and Regional) DTT transmissions during the digital migration process, from October to December. The financial aid will be given to the national pubcaster RTVE and the public Regional TV companies in Aragon, Canaries, Catalonia, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Galicia and Extremadura. […]
Intelsat declared its Q2 revenues and numbers early on August 4th, saying its all-important backlog of contracts in hand had grown by some $200 million to $10.3 billion during the three months to June 30th. However, revenues for the quarter-year totalled $615.7 million ($653.8m) fell back from the same period last year, and many of […]
A Kenyan consumer lobby group is asking the country’s Supreme Court to further delay the full adoption of digital TV and delay the ending of analogue broadcasts. Lawyers Henry Kurauka and Paul Muite, representing the Consumer Federation of Kenya, argued that the country’s Attorney General had misled the court by saying that Kenya would be […]
AMC Networks is rebranding its MGM Channel as ‘AMC’. The rebrand marks the first distribution outside of North America for AMC. AMC will begin launching locally-versioned channel feeds on key cable and satellite platforms across Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East later this year. Also accompanying these channels will be authenticated AMC […]
Fiji Broadcasting celebrated its Diamond (60th) anniversary on August 2nd and used the occasion to announce the launching of a nation-wide digital TV platform. Fiji’s prime minister Vorege Bainimarama said the new platform would improve the quality of TV signals, and boost the number of channels available to all viewers. The Dept. Of Communications would […]
BBC Monitoring is reporting that Iran’s Intelligence Ministry on August 3 closed a number of foreign-based satellite channels for their [alleged] involvement in “secret and illegal” activity. The BBC report quotes the Ministry which states that the closed channels are based in the UK and the US, but they also operate out of local offices […]
AirTies Wireless Networks, a supplier of advanced wireless and OTT/IPTV technologies, has unveiled a new portable wireless set-top box, small enough to fit into a handbag. Measuring just 10x10cm, the miniature STB attaches wirelessly to the IP gateway and can easily be moved from room to room. It features RF remote control and home automation […]