Mumbai-based Dish TV has launched a DTH service to Sri Lanka. Currently 47 channels are on offer. New subscribers will get a two-month payment holiday. Dish TV says it has invested some $4.5 million in the project to date, and that it anticipates another $2 million of funding. It has a 70 per cent stake […]
Lagardère Active has secured a majority stake of 82 per cent in Grupo Boomerang TV (Grupo BTV). The remaining 18 per cent will still be held by the founding partners who will continue in the day to day management of the Group. Created in 1998, Grupo BTV is one of Spain’s leading independent audiovisual production […]
Arianespace has confirmed the successful deployment of DirecTV-15 and SKY México’s SKY México-1. According to Arianespace, the flight was unique – with both passengers focusing on the same application (direct-to-home television broadcast) and scheduled to operate above the same area of the world (the Americas). DirecTV-15 is to operate at five different orbital positions between […]
Complementing its global base of video and music data, Gracenote has bought sports stats and information companies Infostrada Statistics and SportsDirect for a combined $54 million. The transaction also includes Covers Media Group, which runs Covers.com, a North America-focused provider of sports scores, odds and matchups data, and analysis and news. Gracenote, a unit of Tribune Media […]
ivi, the biggest legal VoD service in Russia, has announced the launch of ivi tv – a personalised TV service based on and deeply integrated into its VoD platform. The service is built around the idea of combining traditional TV with a recommendation system, developed by ivi after years of studying users’ preferences. Oleg Tumanov, […]
Suddenlink and Hulu have formed an agreement that will give Suddenlink customers access to Hulu – the US on-demand streaming service including hit series such as Seinfeld, Empire, South Park, CSI, Nashville and current season programming from NBC, FOX, and ABC. A provider of Internet, TV, and phone services with more than 1.5 million total […]
PopShack, the social music business, has announced that former Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks International Bill Roedy has invested in the company and joins the board of directors. Roedy commented, “I remember 34 years ago there was a seismic shift in how things were done when MTV launched. It was pioneering and disrupted the […]
now TV has confirmed the exclusive Hong Kong broadcast rights to Copa América 2015 football tournament, following an agreement with MP & Silva, the rights holder across Asia, and will broadcast all 26 matches of the event live in HD. The Copa América is one of the most widely followed sporting events in the world, […]
Catel, the association representing a new breed of locally-focused IPTV operators in Argentina, has deployed Amino devices in the rollout of a second wave of pay-TV services in key cities across the country. Amino secured its first network operator contract in Argentina last year, working with “cooperativas” – locally-focused service providers – to deliver IPTV […]
Envivio will add live production capabilities to its 4K streaming demonstration of this year’s French Open tennis championship in France. Envivio’s compression technology is being used by French broadcaster TDF to live stream the event using HEVC (H.265) compression over DVB T-2. The main matches will be broadcast by TDF to TNT, the national DTT […]