UK-based television and media systems integrator ATG Broadcast has announced the appointment of Tim Felstead as Head of Sales and Marketing. He joins from Harris Broadcast Communications where he was active in global product marketing for the division’s Workflow Infrastructure and Networking group. Having served a total of 18 years with BTS/Thomson/Grass Valley, Felstead joined […]
Axtel, one of Mexico’s largest telcos, has launched its pay TV service, Axtel TV, offering a hybrid solution which combines IPTV broadcast channels, on-demand (VoD, time-shift and network personal video recorder) and interactive content via IP, along with access to free-to-air DTT broadcasts channels. Axtel TV is using Navi, mirada’s content navigation tool, which is […]
BT has reported over 60,000 TV customers with YouView connected TV boxes and revealed it signed up 21,000 BT Vision customers in the quarter to the end of December. It ended its fiscal third quarter with 770,000 BT Vision customers ahead of its big summer push for subscribers following its acquisition of Premier League football […]
Although attention will be on Netflix as it launches its first major original series, House of Cards, revolutionising content distribution by giving consumer all the content at once, which is exactly what consumers want, with virtually every traditional media outlet rooting for the releasing strategy’s complete and utter failure, Amazon’s progress in the online video […]
UKTV, the network of 10 channels owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, has created a new social media team to help drive the company’s digital innovation strategy. Steve Hornby has been promoted to the new role of Head of Digital and Social Media and he is currently recruiting for a Digital and Social […]
Intelsat’s I-27 satellite was lost when a Russian rocket using the Sea Launch platform failed just 40 seconds after launch in the mid-Pacific Ocean. This is a major loss for the Sea Launch platform which only emerged from bankruptcy in 2010, and has suffered some catastrophic launches in recent years and this latest problem again […]
The growth of the US IPTV market continued to decelerate in the fourth quarter of 2012, due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy and the slowing expansion of Verizon’s FiOS service. The two major US IPTV players, Verizon and AT&T, reported a combined gain of 326,000 video subscribers in the fourth quarter, down 19 per […]
France’s Canal+ Group has been awarded the exclusive live rights to all 380 matches in the English Premier League in a three-season deal, kicking off in August 2013. “We are extremely pleased Canal + has chosen to invest yet again in our broadcast rights,” Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore, said. “They are a long-term […]
Orange’s Livebox Play will be on sale from February 7th. The new device, which comes in the shape of an Internet box and a set-top box has received over 100,000 pre-orders in just over two weeks on the Orange website. “The new Livebox Play is packed full of cutting-edge technologies” declared Delphine Ernotte Cunci, Executive […]
Bertelsmann is looking to sell a €2 billion stake in Europe’s biggest advertiser-funded broadcaster RTL, which makes UK shows including The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, to finance international expansion. Privately-owned German company Bertelsmann has informed the board of directors at RTL that it is considering reducing its stake from 92.3 per cent to […]