Cable giant Comcast is selling its 15.8 per cent stake in A & E for about $3.03 billion. Its joint-venture partners in A&E, Walt Disney Co and Hearst Corp, will buy the stake. A&E is home to channels such as the History Channel, Biography and Lifetime. It is expected that Comcast will use the cash […]
The TV middleware market, long led by Nagra (25 per cent worldwide 2011 market share) and NDS (24 per cent) worldwide and Motorola (19 per cent) and Cisco (11 per cent) in the US, is in a massive state of upheaval as Cisco’s bid for NDS waits to close – it is expected in early […]
Liberty Global has revealed that Niall Curran has been appointed as President of its international content company Chellomedia. Curran has been Chellomedia’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) since 2003 and has been instrumental in the division’s considerable growth over the 10 year period; the group is a leading producer and distributor of television channels and a […]
Jinni, the mood based discovery engine for movies and TV shows, announced its partnership with Swisscom for integration into On Demand and live TV. The Swisscom service will offer its customers an intuitive, user-centric guide to seamlessly integrate discovery, content recommendations and viewing. “We believe that integrating Jinni’s semantic engine into our content platforms, in […]
Fuelled by a successful first year on Freeview, Food Network UK has announced its on-air expansion from a four-hour programming block to all day. Set to start July 20th, Freeview viewers will have the opportunity to watch more of the Food Network UK programming on Channel 49. The Freeview on-air expansion further extends Food Network […]
British audiences with either the latest FreeviewHD enabled television set or a set top box can now access the first ever package of free to view Christian channels broadcasting on Freeview channel 113. The new packages of channels, delivered by Vision247, bring Bible-based programming to Christian viewers intended to provide hope, inspiration and encouragement.
Included in a batch of five new standards, the US’s Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has published standards on 3D video, which are now available to guide designers as they develop innovative products for consumers. “The release of these standards follows the very successful CEA Technology and Standards Forum in Dallas,” said Brian Markwalter, senior vice […]
Effectively snubbing the high-profile public broadcaster and ISP-backed launch of open IPTV platform YouView, Intellect, the UK’s trade body for the high technology sector, has revealed its preferred way for aligning the UK with HbbTV, the hybrid TV standard emerging dominant in Europe, for consultation with broadcasters. Intellect suggests that in this way, hybrid television […]
YouTube has selected the French producers to create thematic channels on its video website starting in October. Google has been planning the free French TV channels for over a year, while also planning for unique content from the UK and Germany. YouTube considers French-owned Dailymotion its primary competition in online video. In France, Google has […]
Netflix’s planned foray into another European country in the fourth quarter should be delayed or halted until the streaming pioneer returns to profitability in the US, says analysts B. Riley & Co. in Los Angeles. Netflix has predicated much of its future growth (and profitability) on what it believes to be untapped international subscription VoD […]