S3 Group, an international digital TV company, and Teleplan have been selected by Sky Deutschland AG to deliver a suite of products and services targeted at increasing the quality of experience for its subscribers. The solution, which incorporates a number of different StormTest products from S3 Group and services from Teleplan, will be deployed in […]
Gerry O’Sullivan, SVP Global TV and Entertainment at Deutsche Telekom, has called on pay-TV operators to cut down ‘sacred cows’ and consider future business models which do not rely on hardware in subscriber households. Delivering a keynote speech at The Digital TV Summit in London, O’Sullivan told delegates: “I’d like to see no hardware in […]
The BBC is overhauling its Red Button service to make it future-proof for the next generation of connected TVs. ‘Connected Red Button’ will allow viewers with Internet-enabled TVs to watch a selection channels even if they are off air, and catch up with previous episodes of shows. It will launch initially with Virgin Media’s Tivo […]
A total of four bids for Telecom Italia Media’s TV assets have been submitted by deadline, but none of them have been judged as satisfactory. According to local media reports, the bids from Discovery and H3G have been defined as “not interesting”, while the remaining two, from the Clessidra fund and Cairo Communication, are “too […]
Amazon’s LOVEFiLM has launched on the Nintendo Wii in the UK. The new app comes a year after gracing the Xbox 360 and two years after launching on the PS3. Wii owners can download the app from the Wii Shop Channel and can sign up for either a 30 day free trial or delve straight […]
Time Warner Cable is giving cable networks a warning that they will be dropped if they aren’t worth their carriage fee and are considered to be “underperforming”. TWC is facing programming costs that have risen 30 per cent since 2008, and had only increased rates 15 per cent in the same timeframe. CEO Glenn Britt […]
The Italian TV market value has dropped by 5.2 per cent – nearly €500 million – between 2011 and 2012, according to the report “The television market in Italy: 2012-2014” from Italy’s ITMedia Consulting. The economic downturn has hit the TV and advertising industry – and for the first time a drop in the pay-TV […]
News Corporation will be retained as the name of the global newspaper business while the film and TV businesses will form a separate company named Fox Group. Rupert Murdoch told staff in an email: “Change always breeds uncertainty, but let me be very clear about one thing that is certain: We aren’t finished achieving what […]
Electric Sky reports that within days of securing the exclusive rights of the ITN Production ‘Wills & Kate: Baby Fever’, and following news that the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant – sales are booming. One of Germany’s largest Broadcasters was the first to agree a deal for the one hour Documentary made for Channel 5, […]
EAs the European and global football season gathers pace, ESPNFC, the multi-platform global football initiative from ESPN, is unveiling a package of enhancements as it continues to grow audiences and connect brands with fans. Available online, via the mobile web, smart phone apps, and, on TV via football debate and discussion show PressPass, ESPNFC brings […]