VideoJug, the global 'how to' video site, has signed five new content syndication agreements which will increase its potential global audience to an estimated 60+ million viewers per month. The deals have been struck with Yahoo, WikiHow, Kontraband, WonderHowTo and Tiscali and will all go live within weeks. VideoJug, which attracts over 3.2 million unique […]
ESPN Classic have signed up to provide content for Go!View, the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) video-on-demand service in the UK and Republic of Ireland. As part of the deal, ESPN Classic will give PSP users the opportunity to see some of the greatest moments in sporting history. Every month up to 20 hours of ESPN […]
The new Sunrise software from Ocean Blue, a specialist digital TV software company, is the first software that incorporates power saving functions, HD, USB support, digital and analogue formats, which can all operate on a single internal chipset, as opposed to the multiple chips currently in use. Combining multiple broadcast types and functions on a […]
Virgin Media Television (VMtv) has confirmed two senior appointments to strengthen and develop its commercial strategy for the multi-screen digital future. David Cuff joins VMtv as its new Commercial Director, responsible for commercial strategy across the full range of VMtv's business. Cuff has previously held positions with Flextech Television and Initiative Media, and runs his […]
German pay-TV broadcaster Premiere's shares fell 60% as it announced losses, a subscriber number re-statement and revealed it is trying to restructure bank debt.Premiere said its chief financial officer, Alexander Teschner, had stepped down as it restated its customer numbers to be in line with other pay-TV companies, resulting in a 940,000 drop in the […]
According to a TVTelco Latam's report, Latin America will have 21.3 million mobile digital TV handsets in use in 2013, mostly on phones, but also on portable MP4 players, cars and buses, and USB for notebooks. With its ISDB system, Brazil will lead the Latin American free-to-air mobile TV market, with 12.5 million viewers by […]
News Corp is pushing for an end to conditions placed on the media giant after its acquisition of a controlling stake in DIRECTV, asking the Federal Communications Commission to move on its petition on the matter.News Corp. acquired the DIRECTV stake in 2003, but sold its ownership in the DBS platform to Liberty Media in […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid One and a half years before the analogue switch-off, scheduled for April 2010, Spaniards seem to be not very keen on DTT as most of them, 61.4 per cent, still prefer to watch analogue TV, according to the latest viewing figures. DTT got an average share of 17.4 per […]
The latest figures from Ofcom reveal that there are over 900,000 households with a free satellite service in the UK. The Communications Market: Digital Progress Report for the second quarter of 2008 shows around 840,000 homes were using free satellite – from BSkyB, BBC/ITV or other retailers – on their main television set. This was […]
Three US copyright judges have imposed a truce between songwriters, music labels and digital music services such as Apple's iTunes store by keeping royalties on CDs, downloads, online streaming services and ringtones broadly unchanged. The ruling from the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington gave none of the parties what they had asked for but allowed […]