CBS chairman/CEO Les Moonves told an audience at CES in Las Vegas that overnight TV ratings were now antiquated and “basically worthless” as OTT and other ‘catch-up’ services proliferated. However, he also stressed that he had no objection to the normal linear broadcast system, which he hoped would stay in place, but said “We don’t […]
The broadcast display industry is already moving beyond the 8.3 megapixels needed to reflect 4K Ultra-HD. Most display manufacturers use even more ‘pixels’ in the 4K rendering by sub-dividing the 8.3 megapixels into three components (a red, green and blue subpixel). But Japanese manufacturer Sharp has used the giant CES show to argue that its […]
DirecTV used International CES in Las Vegas to confirm that it will have two satellites serving its 4K needs across the USA. Philip Goswitz, an SVP at DirecTV, added that one recently-launched satellite is now operational and the other is going up in May, he said. Goswitz said that the industry needed common standards, and […]
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest TV and mobile manufacturer, has forecast a 37.4 per cent fall in quarterly operating profit from a year earlier. In its pre-earnings guidance, the firm forecast an operating profit of 5.2 trillion Korean won (€4bn) for the three months to December. Analysts had expected an operating profit guidance of about […]
US streaming service Hulu has partnered with Fandango, the Comcast-owned cinema ticket retailer, to launch a new channel dedicated to movie content. The channel will be available to all Hulu subscribers and feature original programming made by Fandango, which sells tickets to more than 22,000 cinema screens around the US. Hulu will begin streaming the […]
Overall video entertainment market spend in the Netherlands remained flat in 2014 and is on track to return to growth this year, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. The category – which includes digital video, box office, packaged video and pay-TV – totalled more than €2 billion in 2014 and is on track to exceed […]
BT has been hit by a ruling from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over an ad for its BT Sport pay-TV channels after Sky complained it had unclear information about a rise in cost. The ad, which ran on the BT Sport website, included an offer for free access to BT Sport via the Sky […]
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services, has released its Third Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds and broadband adoption across fixed and mobile networks, overall attack traffic, global 4K readiness, and IPv4 […]
ESPN Player is giving fans in the UK, Europe and Africa the chance to witness NCAA college football history for just £1 (€1.28). Live streaming coverage of the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship Game will be available on January 12th via www.espnplayer.com. The game will also be available on demand until the end of […]
One of the latest indications of close co-operation between UK FTA commercial broadcaster Channel 5 and its Viacom parent has come with the news that MTV UK will broadcast repeats of Celebrity Big Brother for the first time when the reality flagship returns for its eighth series on Channel 5. An edited version of each […]