ITV will show highlights of all of England’s games in the cricket World Cup which begins next month. Games including the fixture against Scotland will be shown on ITV1 as well as the semi-final and final – but only if England make it that far. Other games will be shown on sister channel ITV4. Live […]
London Live, the struggling London city TV station, is set to cut 20 jobs, around a third of its staff, with the cost-savings to be re-invested in programming content. The channel, owned by Evgeny Lebedev, is making the cuts to its news and current affairs team. “As the business develops, we are able to assess […]
In a move that boosts its end-to-end video distribution capability with Dynamic Ad Insertion, Just-in-Time Packaging and Cloud DVR Technology, advertising management and video infrastructure solutions specialist Imagine Communications has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of RGB Networks, Inc., a leading provider of multiscreen video delivery solutions based in Sunnyvale, California. The […]
Aston has won its appeal in the Paris Court of Appeal in proceedings it brought against the Canal+ Group. Aston contested the unilateral decision of the Canal+ Group to terminate the Canal Ready label contract linking the two companies, believing that this decision violated the basic rules of free competition in the market by abusing the […]
Most subscribers to Russia’s NTV Plus pay-TV bundles will pay more from February 1st, and some will see their costs rise “significantly” according to local reports. NTV Plus’ transmissions from Eutelsat’s 36A and 36B satellites are directly affected. Subscribers living in Western Russia will see the costs of their ‘basic/entry’ tier of 22 channels now […]
Iran’s police have been busy removing dishes and confiscating satellite receivers as the nation enforces its ban on viewers watching ‘foreign’ TV channels. The city of Shiraz lost more than 6,000 installations to teams of police from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, according to a local report. The dishes were taken to a local sports stadium and […]
BBC Worldwide claims it has signed a content deal in Taiwan through an agreement with Chunghwa Telecom-backed channel operator ELTA TV. The deal includes channels, programme sales and VoD platform from the factual, lifestyle, light entertainment and news archives of the BBC’s commercial arm. Following the agreement four BBC-branded channels – namely BBC World News […]
A BBC Monitoring report says that many of Vietnam’s pay-TV distributors are adding extra channels as competition in the sector gets tougher. K+ Satellite Digital Television, Saigontourist Cable Television (SCTV) and An Vien Television (AVG) have all announced new channels in their packages for 2015. K+ added Screen RED and AFC on January 8th, after […]
Eutelsat Communications has signed a multi-year agreement with RPO RMTR, the public broadcaster of the Kyrgyz Republic, that will accelerate the country’s switch to a fully digital broadcasting environment. RPO RMTR is using the high-power service area of the Eutelsat 70B satellite to broadcast a free-to-air platform of national channels to DTT towers and direct […]
Scripps Networks UK & EMEA, a division of engaging lifestyle content, has announced that Travel Channel, the global travel broadcaster, is now available on UPC in Austria. Travel Channel is the first network to launch on a Liberty Global platform since the two companies agreed to a pan-European distribution deal last October. Jon Sichel, Managing […]