Sensio Technologies has announced a 3D VoD licensing agreement with Starz Digital Media -the digital and on-demand licensing arm of Starz Media – to make select 3D movies available for on-demand rental on Sensio’s 3DGO! service. Available in autumn 2012 across the US, 3DGO! is a dedicated 3D transactional VoD service that will offer a […]
International sales and distribution company, ohm:tv, is continuing to enjoy success by selling a mixed bag of Canadian content from Omni Film Productions and Exploration Production Inc. to various channels in two of the company’s key territories, Spain and Germany. The Spanish deal sees two seasons of Omni Film Productions’ Pure Design licensed to Chello […]
Alcatel-Lucent and AuthenTec are jointly supporting Portugal Telecom in the launch of ‘Meo Go!’. The new Meo Go! service enables subscribers of Portugal Telecom – the largest communications service provider in Portugal – to use their smartphones and tablets to access content that was previously confined to their TVs and PCs, including 60 live TV […]
Viacom and DirecTV have reached an agreement, ending a week-long black out of channels including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central to DirecTV subscribers. Financial terms were not disclosed, but DirecTV said the resolution showed that programmers who try to bully distributors with blackouts won’t get better deals. DirecTV says the agreement will enable its 20 […]
Globally, the number of television households with Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) is projected to reach 337.6 million by the year 2018, driven by falling prices, and satellite and cable operators’ move to offer DVRs in bundled form along with other services. The time-shifting and ad-skipping capabilities of the DVRs are driving adoption among consumers, reports […]
The TV crisis is intensifying in Spain with a drop of 16.4 per cent in advertising to €419.9 million in the first quarter of 2012. Public TV channels took the worst part of it with a fall of 30.55 per cent to €36.1 million against €51.9 million the same period last year. Prívate TV channels […]
Some major shareholders have renewed their call for Rupert Murdoch to resign as News Corp chairman at the company’s annual meeting later this year. Eighteen major shareholders including Connecticut’s state pension fund and the UK’s Legal & General have now signed a letter calling for Murdoch to step down from the company he has spent […]
Dutch cable operator Ziggo has reported a 6.3 per cent rise in quarterly revenue, boosted by higher subscriptions for bundled TV, Internet and telephony packages. “We are on track to continue to increase our market share and grow our revenue and EBITDA in the second half of 2012,” chief executive Bernard Dijkhuizen commented. Ziggo swung […]
Google may have to make changes to its Android phones as part of a settlement brokered with Brussels over its alleged anti-competitive behaviour. Google has proposed making changes to the way it handles search to head off a lengthy court case and large fines. Brussels acceptance of the proposal hinges on the changes being extended […]
FiOS, the multichannel broadband service from Verizon is doing some blistering business. Increases at both its TV and broadband division helped drive operating revenues up 3.7 per cent and net up up 13 per cent, compared with the same period last year. Verizon’s video subscriber numbers increased a net 120,000 and broadband customers increased a […]