Advanced Television

Leighton takes Pace chair, will buy £200,000 shares

Prominent UK businessman Allan Leighton is to take over as Chairman of STB maker Pace, which recently gained number one ranking among set-top box manufacturers, but which has also attracted adverse analyst comments following profits warnings. Leighton formerly headed supermarket chain Asda, but came to prominence during his tenure as chairman of Royal Mail. He […]

May 31, 2011By Colin Mann

VOD:TV set for SA launch

A video-on-demand service is set to make its debut in South Africa. VOD:TV, formed by the SouthTel Group, is promising to offer the latest movies and TV series before Multichoice-owned DStv, The service won’t offer live TV itself, but will allow subscribers to download and store content to the PVR for later viewing. Roughly half […]

May 9, 2011By Colin Mann

Lithuania DTH grows 25%

SES Astra says that the number of digital homes in the Baltic state of Lithuania grew 25 per cent last year. Anna-Karin Modigh, a senior marketing manager at SES Astra, says 30 per cent or 400,000 of the 1.34 million Lithuanian TV households are now digital. From these TV households, 31 per cent use digital […]

April 29, 2011By Chris Forrester

Hollywood coalition seeks stronger IP enforcement

A coalition of more than a dozen entertainment industry groups has sent a letter to the US Congress expressing a desire to work with lawmakers to update intellectual property law and strengthen piracy enforcement. “In the case of the entertainment industry, the theft of motion picture and television productions threatens the economic vitality of our […]

March 31, 2011By Colin Mann

Liberty Global ups KBW bid

The future of German cable MSO KBW – put up for sale by its Swedish private equity firm owner EQT – is in the balance as Liberty Global raises its bid to $4.5 billion in an effort to beat off CVC Capital Partners who are said to have tabled $4.17 billion. A third bid had […]

March 21, 2011By Colin Mann

ivi streaming ‘illegal’

A US District judge has ruled that Internet TV service ivi is breaking the law by offering live streams of network and cable television. ivi, which offers online broadcasts of 55 stations in the Los Angeles, Chicago and New York area for under $5 a month, was ordered to cease operations immediately as a result […]

February 23, 2011By Colin Mann

Telenet ponders Numericable move

Belgian cable operator Telenet is considering a bid for the Brussels-based unit of France’s Numericable, which would open a market beyond the group’s base in the north of the country, according to Reuters. “We are looking at this asset, just like we are looking at other assets in the cable sector, but we won’t give […]

February 1, 2011

Research: 26-fold global mobile data traffic increase by 2015

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2010 to 2015, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 26-fold during this time period, reaching 6.3 exabytes per month or an annual run rate of 75 exabytes by 2015 as a result of a projected surge in mobile Internet-enabled devices delivering […]

February 1, 2011

thePlatform reaches for the SKY

White-label video management and publishing company thePlatform has been selected by New Zealand pay-TV operator SKY Television to provide the back-end video management for the iSKY online TV service. The iSKY service is currently available to SKY subscribers and provides the opportunity to view their favourite programmes and movies on their computers. John Fellet, CEO […]

February 1, 2011