Ofcom has awarded the local TV licence for UK’s second city Birmingham to local player City TV Broadcasting, ahead of high-profile consortiums backed by heavyweights including former BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons. City TV Broadcasting has picked up the licence for what is considered by bidders to be one of the three most important […]
Benefiting from one-time gains and the continued strength of cable channels like Fox News, News Corp posted earnings that generally exceeded analysts’ expectations. The company said that net income in the third quarter of the year jumped to $2.23 billion from $738 million, or 28 cents a share, in the same quarter last year. The […]
UK electrical chain Dixons is offering Christmas jobs to hundreds of Comet staff who face redundancy because their firm is insolvent. Sebastian James, chief executive of Dixons Retail, said 500 Comet staff had already approached his firm. “We have delayed our recruitment so that Comet colleagues who want to join our stores can get a […]
The executive who runs Richard Desmond’s adult channels is to be handed responsibility for running Channel 5. Paul Dunthorne is the long-serving managing director of Portland TV, which operates 17 channels including Television X. He will now take over day-to-day management of Channel 5, whilst retaining his existing job. Dunthorne, who will take over responsibilty […]
According to statistics from three South Korean IPTV operators – KT, SK Broadband and LG U+ – and trade group Korea Digital Media Industry, there were 5.9 million subscribers in the country at the end of October. If the current trend of subscriber growth by 30,000 to 40,000 per week continues, subscribers are expected to […]
Phase 1 of India’s switch from analogue cable distribution to digital has not gone well. The four giant ‘metros’, which should have completely converted back in the summer, have seen slippage, delay and deliberate obfuscation in the task. On November 6th India’s government set out the next phase, with an especially tight timetable that it […]
Intelsat’s IS-19 craft, launched back in June, suffered from damage to one of its all-important solar panels. The satellite was launched from the Sea Launch floating platform in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with various theories as to what cause the damage. Intelsat has now issued an $84 million claim on its insurers representing […]
thePlatform, the white-label video publishing company, and Conviva, a specialist in real-time viewer experience optimisation and advanced analytics, have formed a partnership to provide Conviva’s patented video analytics capabilities to customers of thePlatform. Conviva Viewer Insights will be offered as an integrated component of thePlatform’s mpx video publishing system, providing an additional layer of dynamic […]
A new Internet television service has launched for young people in the UK and Europe as part of a major €3.3 million project led by the University of East Anglia (UEA). SeaMe.tv has been created by the SeaMedia project and serves the coastal regions of the East, South East and South West of England, Belgium, […]
In a further move to strengthen its position against competing OTT services such as LOVEFiLM and Netflix, Sky has entered a new multi-year licensing agreement with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution for the exclusive television rights in the UK and Ireland to current, upcoming and library feature films from NBCUniversal for its Sky Movies service. All […]