Israel’s YES satellite platform is offering a low-cost basic bundle of 15 channels. The introduction is in direct response to its rival HOT cable operator which is also marketing a 16-channel bouquet for the same ILS 129 per month (about $33). The special rates are a ‘one time only’ offer for this month, although new […]
Back in 2010 Walt Disney Co was ordered to pay damages of $319 million to ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” game show producer Celador International. On December 3rd a US Court of Appeal denied Disney’s request for a new trial in the controversial case. UK-based Celador developed the ‘Millionaire’ format. The original ruling was […]
News Corp has revealed that Mike Darcey, COO at BSkyB, is to become the next chief executive of News International, following the news that Tom Mockridge is leaving at the end of the year. Mockridge, who was parachuted in from Sky Italia to take over from the management tainted by hacking, resigned unexpectedly as chief […]
News Corp-backed Sky Deutschland is already on record for its enthusiasm for ‘next generation’ Ultra-HD broadcasting. On Saturday December 1st it put its money into capturing a football match in 4K, probably the first game to be test-recorded anywhere on the planet. Brian Sullivan, CEO at Sky-D said the decision underlined the broadcaster’s position as […]
Canal Plus has wrapped the complex merger of Poland’s various pay-TV interests. These involve Canal+, ITI and TVN combining into a new entity – NC+ – which will be a single pay-TV DTH platform with about 2.5 million subs. Canal Plus will own 51 per cent of NC+. The merger brings together the former competing […]
More proof that DVRs have entered the mainstream has emerged with fresh consumer research from Leichtman Research Group. The research and analyst firm found that 52 per cent of households in the US that subscribe to a multi-channel video service have a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), compared to 4 per cent of TV households that […]
X Factor may be fading in the UK but Sky Italia has announced a live double season finale. For the first time ever, the last phase of the competition will take place during two primetime live shows, which will air on Thursday December 6 and Friday December 7 on Sky’s entertainment channel Sky Uno HD. […]
An expected 2013 launch of an ‘iRadio’ service from Apple is likely to be well ahead of any TV product launch, according to Richard Greenfield, Media Analyst at BTIG Research. Writing in the BTIG blog, Greenfield says that following the November 29 launch of iTunes 11 and a series of industry executive meetings, it is […]
The latest Worldwide IPTV Subscriber Market report from Research and Markets Ltd has found that the global IPTV subscriber market totaled around 65.7 million by the end of the first quarter of 2012, growing 34.5 per cent year-on-year. As IPTV penetration rate is near saturation in Western Europe, it is projected that Asia will become […]
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filings in the US have revealed new Google TV devices from Netgear and Asus. While the testing documents for the Netgear STB – tentatively called the NeoTV Prime – don’t show the device that plugs in to the TV, it does reveal a Bluetooth-connected, Qwerty keyboard remote with a trackpad. The […]