US network Verizon has become the latest partner for Google’s TV Ads platform, carrying the adverts on its pay-TV service FiOS TV. Allowing time for technical bedding and planning, Verizon is expected to start delivering Google TV Ads on FiOS TV in early 2011. Having lost NBC Universal as a partner in recent weeks, the […]
BlackArrow, a company that provides advertising products for “new TV” platforms, has raised funding from Motorola through its investment arm, Motorola Ventures. The company says that the investment is an extension of BlackArrow’s previously announced $20 million Series C funding round earlier this year. Terms of Motorola’s investment were not disclosed. To date BlackArrow has […]
ITV’s revenues and profits are resurgent, proving again that it has the world’s simplest business model and that you are just unlucky if you end up running it (or any other FTA commercial channel) in an advertising down turn. But the new management team says it doesn’t want to ride its luck and has set […]
Cyfrowy Polsat SA, Poland’s biggest satellite television broadcaster, has agreed to buy Telewizja Polsat SA, its parent company which is also controlled by billionaire Zygmunt Solorz-Zak , for 3.75 billion zloty ($1.3bn). Cyfrowy will pay 2.6 billion zloty in cash and the rest in the form of 80 million new shares valued at 14.37 zloty […]
Former Ofcom partner and ITN CEO, Stewart Purvis, has called for quick action on ITV, a reversal of European regulation, and relaxation of advertising and impartiality rules, in a speech delivered for the RTS (Royal Television Society) Fleming Memorial Lecture 2010. Entitled ‘Calling Time on Analogue Regulation – an agenda for the next Communications Act,’ […]
Europe’s biggest commercial broadcaster RTL Group has posted a lift in third-quarter operating profit driven by strong performance in Germany, France and the Netherlands and said the fourth quarter has started well. The Luxembourg-based company reported that EBITA was E133 million, up 47.8 per cent. Group revenue rose 8.8 per cent to E1.16 billion. RTL […]
ITV could invest more in arts, factual programming and drama were it not for regulations, its managers has told a Lords committee. Archie Norman, new chairman of the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster, and Adam Crozier, chief executive, told the communications committee that ITV had been driven into a “ratings rat race” by regulations, particularly the […]
Spain’s largest private TV channels, Antena 3 TV and Mediaset’s Tele 5, have profited from the elimination of TV advertising on public broadcaster RTVE, since January. Both broadcasters made profits to September with Antena 3 increasing its profit by 261 per cent to E79.1 million and Tele 5’s net profit is up by 54.4 per […]
Channel 5 has pulled out of Thinkbox, the TV marketing body, arguing that the broadcaster can demonstrate its value to advertisers on its own. Channel 5 will stop being a Thinkbox shareholder from January 2011 and cease financially supporting the organisation. Other Thinkbox backers include ITV, Channel 4 and BSkyB. “Northern & Shell is committed […]
The solar system has been brought to life in a spectacular display over London’s skyline. The display comes ahead of a groundbreaking Sky 3D show charting the solar system The show above the Royal Greenwich Observatory was organised to promote the launch this month of Sky 3D – Europe’s first 3D TV channel. Nine helium-filled […]