Up to 40 hours of BBC programming will be premiered on the BBC iPlayer this year prior to its first TV broadcast. The BBC Trust approved the plans to premier TV shows on the iPlayer late last year but the BBC has not yet decided what the shows will be or when experiment will begin. […]
KPN is launching a new pay TV service for Belgium. Snow, will combine a TV, Internet and telephony bundle competing with existing providers Telenet and Belgacom. Snow will be marketed separately from KPN Belgium’s existing mobile offering Base, it will offer 33 channels including public broadcast channels from France and the UK. Snow includes French […]
Research from analysis firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has revealed found that 75 per cent of households in the US have at least one high definition television (HDTV) set – up from 23 per cent five years ago. Over the past five years, 52 per cent of US households adopted HDTV. In addition, 51 per […]
Greek Billionaire Alki David, founder of Internet-based content streaming provider FilmOn, is suing rival service Aereo’s founder Barry Diller in the next stage of the battle between the pair, at the same time bemoaning the involvement of the legal fraternity. FilmOn offers all the major US network television networks in seven major cities, as well […]
Ofcom has awarded the licence to run the local TV service in Manchester on digital terrestrial TV to YourTV Manchester. The award follows legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences. The channels will broadcast on a specific ‘multiplex’, a discrete amount of spectrum reserved for local TV broadcasting on DTT. Licences are awarded for […]
Eutelsat is beginning to make progress with its giant Ka-Sat broadband satellites. It says it now has 72,000 ‘active’ Tooway terminals as at December 31st, up from 52,450 in June last year. Eutelsat modified and simplified its pricing structure for Tooway last month. The increased subscriber levels on broadband means that iEutelsat’s Value-Added Services division […]
Scripps Networks Interactive suffered a four per cent slide in its share price after failing to meet Wall Street expectations. Earnings and other key metrics were up, but slower ad-revenue growth affected the stock, as did guidance that expenses would rise faster than earlier guidance. The company said that for the full year 2013, it […]
This weekend is Carnival in Rio, as well as in many other countries in the build-up to ‘Fat Tuesday’ (Mardi Gras) events around the world. TV has the Rio de Janeiro event well covered with TV Globo and Japan’s NHK using around 150 technicians to cover the event. The signals are also being streamed on […]
The Croatian Post (Hrvatska Posta) has launched an advertising campaign for its pay-TV service on Digital Terrestrial Television, as part of a full commercial launch, following a low key rollout in November 2012. Evotv is broadcast in DVB-T2 technology, with signal coverage of 80 per cent of Croatian households (increasing to 95 per cent in […]
Although US network CBS generated nearly $240 million in gross ad revenues from last week’s Super Bowl, after factoring in licence fees and production costs the event likely broke even or lost a little money for CBS according to SNL Kagan. However, the network can also generate higher ad dollars for the pre- and post-game […]