The new DTT plan the Spanish government is finalising for approval before the year end will cost over 20,000 jobs, claims the Association of Electronic, IT and Digital Content Companies (Ametic). It says it will reduce the number of TV channels, limit the available resources to broadcast TV and the quality of the transmissions. Ametic […]
US network broadcaster CBS Corporation and online TV service Hulu have agreed a non-exclusive, multi-year licensing deal to stream programmes from CBS’s extensive television library on the Hulu Plus subscription service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The CBS content will begin to appear on Hulu Plus in January 2013, and over the following […]
Yahoo and Samsung have revealed an expanded multi-year partnership to integrate Yahoo’s Broadcast Interactivity platform into Samsung 2012 Smart TVs. Yahoo Broadcast Interactivity, powered by its automatic content recognition (ACR) technology, SoundPrint, will be deployed in Samsung’s SyncPlus platform, enabling new opportunities for intelligent content discovery, advertising and engagement, bringing an unprecedented level of interactivity […]
US satellite TV giant DirecTV reported higher third-quarter earnings as its US pay TV subscriber growth momentum slowed. The company posted a profit of $565 million, up 9 per cent from the year-ago period. Revenue rose 8 per cent to $7.42 billion. DirecTV signed up 67,000 new US pay TV subscribers in the third quarter. […]
Dish Network, the second- largest US satellite-TV provider, has reported an unexpected Q3 loss. The net loss was $158.5 million, compared with a profit of $319.1 million a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing Dish lost 19,000 net subscribers in the quarter. Subscriber acquisition costs jumped 15 per cent to $453 million. […]
Companies tend not to use formal quarterly announcements to talk about any upcoming plans they might have for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), but Intelsat, the world’s biggest satellite operator, used its Q3 results to explain some key advantages. CEO Dave McGlade told analysts that the recent hurricane had not damaged any of Intelsat’s East […]
Factual broadcaster Discovery Communications is downgrading its 2012 anticipated revenue numbers, with revenues and net income affected by a strengthening dollar and higher taxes on profits. On November 6th it reported worse-than-expected quarterly revenues. The broadcaster now says that this year will see total revenues of between $4.48 billion-$4.53 billion, and down from earlier guidance […]
Kim Dotcom has proposed a scheme to bring free broadband to New Zealand, funded by his potential lawsuits against Hollywood studios and the US government. The Megaupload co-founder is currently battling extradition to the US, where he stands accused of crimes including piracy and racketeering. However, a New Zealand court has since ruled that the […]
The Content Map – a website created by UK industry representatives to help teachers, parents and other consumers know which sites are legal – has gone live at www.thecontentmap.com The site is designed to showcase the wealth of legal services available to consumers, across films and TV, ebooks, music, games and sports sectors. These services […]
ESPN has launched its ESPN Hub app to update the existing, Nokia-exclusive app originally launched in January 2012. The multi-sport, regionalised application instantly accessible on Nokia Lumia smartphones is currently available in eight global markets (US, UK, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Chile, Colombia and South Africa) and three languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese), with plans on […]