Advanced Television

India’s Doordarshan selects Harris for DSO

Harris Broadcast, an expert in content management and network infrastructure solutions, has been selected by Indian national broadcaster Doordarshan to deploy a new DVB-T2 transmission infrastructure across the country. The government of India is pushing ahead with plans to complete the move from analogue to digital television transmission by 2017. As the leading public service […]

January 15, 2014

SeaChange, ThinkAnalytics reseller deal

SeaChange International and ThinkAnalytics, developer of the world’s most deployed multiplatform TV search and recommendations engine, have announced their global reseller agreement and integration of the SeaChange Adrenalin multi-screen video platform with the ThinkAnalytics Search and Recommendations Engine. The joint solution will enable video service providers and content owners to deliver multi-screen television with the […]

January 15, 2014

Clearleap solidifies commitment to Europe with new regional hires

Clearleap, a provider of multiscreen video logistics solutions for the television industry, has appointed Mike Grieve as Director of Sales, EMEA, and Ola Bergvall as Program Director, EMEA. Effective immediately, the new hires will support Clearleap as it continues to deliver premium multiscreen solutions across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mike brings over 23 […]

January 15, 2014

ZeeVee to demonstrate new products at ISE

ZeeVee, the leading supplier of HD encoder/modulators for on-premise video distribution, will unveil new products and capabilities at Integrated Systems Europe stand 10-N139 on February 4-6, 2014. HDbridge 2840, the newest member of ZeeVee’s award-winning HDbridge 2000 Series, is a four-channel 1080p video encoder/modulator featuring unencrypted HDMI inputs, teletext support and analogue/digital audio plus delay […]

January 15, 2014

Time Warner ‘no thanks’ to Charter

After Charter Communications went public with an offer for Time Warner Cable worth $61 billion Time Warner has rejected it as “grossly inadequate”. Backed by John Malone’s Liberty Media, Charter has made overtures and offers to Time Warner Cable since last summer, publicly advocating consolidation in the industry. Charter’s public offer was a cash and […]

January 14, 2014

Spain: TV stations’ last chance to stop DTT closure

Spanish Private TV broadcasters are doing their utmost to avoid the closure of nine DTT channels. They have appealed before the Supreme Court against the closures which the Court has ordered and will take the case to the Constitutional Court. In parallel, UTECA, the private TV Association, is holding talks with the government in search […]

January 14, 2014From David Del Valle in Madrid

Deloitte: 50m homes double up pay-TV subs

The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at global consultancy Deloitte has revealed its thirteenth predictions report for the media sector in 2014. Deloitte predicts by the end of 2014, up to 50 million homes around the world will have

January 14, 2014

Charter proposes Time Warner Cable merger

US cable MSO Charter Communications has confirmed that it has sent a letter to Time Warner Cable proposing that the companies immediately engage in discussions to conclude a merger agreement to combine the companies in what has been estimated at a $61.3 billion deal. The proposed merger would be one of the largest cable deals […]

January 14, 2014By Colin Mann

BSkyB: How much for Premier League rights?

Asked what are the three most important offerings of any pay-TV company and the response is usually, 1, premium sport, 2, premium sport and 3, premium sport. And the costs of supplying that premium content is the current headache for BSkyB faced with an extremely deep-pocketed challenger in the shape of BT Sport. The cash […]

January 14, 2014By Chris Forrester

OTT reach outpaces cable

By the end of 2013 a total of 158.2 million households around the globe had viewed some form of OTT internet TV programming on a connected TV set. Of these, 76.6 million households (234 million individuals) had been viewing OTT Internet TV programming on a regular, sustained basis in 2013, according to Research and Markets. […]

January 14, 2014