Advanced Television

ABOX42 unveils package of innovations at TV Connect

The converging of traditional cable networks and new IP Services offers a huge challenge for network operators. At TV Connect 2015 ABOX42 (www.abox42.com) is unveiling innovations, which help operators to migrate hassle free from legacy Set Top Box platforms to a latest technology solution for the first screen and beyond. The leading supplier of OTT, […]

April 27, 2015

ruwido brings synchronised ‘leaf’ user interface to TV Connect 2015

ruwido will reveal at this year’s TV Connect how to support the ‘synchronisation of mind and sense’ by demonstrating a new user interface that corresponds to its TV Connect Awards shortlisted ‘leaf’ input device. Honored with the label: best of the best from the jury of the red dot design awards 2015, an iF design […]

April 27, 2015

TVE @ TV Connect

TVE @ TV Connect Advanced-Television’s TVE @ TV Connect show special. Read it here.

April 26, 2015

TV Everywhere Volume 11 Issue 1

TV Everywhere Volume 11 Issue 1 Advanced-Television’s IP Television relaunches as TV Everywhere. Colin Mann looks at how OTT TV has become a significant player in the pay-TV market. Read the article and the rest of the issue here.

April 26, 2015

Comcast drops Time Warner merger

Comcast has pulled its $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable after failing to convince regulators that a deal that would have been beneficial the US media and Internet landscape. The end to the 14-month attempt to combine the two largest US cable and Internet providers came after comms regulator the FCC recommended a lengthy procedural […]

April 24, 2015

Telefónica-Canal Plus takeover approved

The acquisition by Telefónica of a 56 per cent stake in pay-TV platform Canal Plus has been approved by Spanish competition authority CNMC, albeit with several conditions. Telefónica will have to open up 50 per cent of its premium TV content to other operators with exclusive TV rights to sports (football) and cinema and TV […]

April 24, 2015From David Del Valle in Madrid

Google Q1 boosted by YouTube ads

Google reported higher quarterly revenue and profit as rising online ad volume offset a hit from the strong dollar. Revenue for the quarter that ending March rose 12 per cent to $17.26 billion, from $15.42 billion a year earlier. “Excluding the net impact of foreign currency headwinds, revenue grew a healthy 17 per cent year […]

April 24, 2015

Thor-7 delayed

In what must be another nail-biting period for Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s upcoming launch of its important Thor-7 satellite, the planned April 24th launch has been scrapped. The giant Ariane rocket, complete with Thor-7, has been shifted from the launchpad back to the Final Assembly Building for safekeeping while an “anomaly” in the rocket’s technology is […]

April 24, 2015By Chris Forrester

Cellnex claims DTT closure damages

Spanish domestic broadcasting company, Cellnex Telecom, a subsidiary of Abertis Telecom, is claiming damages of €143 million for the closure of nine DTT channels as ruled by the Supreme Court. The company is asking the Administration for this compensation on the grounds that the closure “caused a reduction in revenues” having “a negative impact” on […]

April 24, 2015From David Del Valle in Madrid

Fox launching Asian OTT service

Fox International Channels (FIC) revealed at the Asia Pacific Operators’ Summit that its key brands Fox, Fox Sports and National Geographic Channel  will be made available via OTT in partnership with leading Asian platforms, including Avex in Japan, Tencent in China, Astro in Malaysia and Cignal in the Philippines.  These services range from SVoD, linear […]

April 24, 2015