The Spanish TV ad market continues in free fall. The CMT’s latest report reveals that the FTA TV ad market dropped by 13.1 per cent in 2011 to €2.029.6 billion. Mediaset Spain, owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, is the TV ad market leader taking 42.2 per cent of all ad revenues to €816.7 million. […]
Dish Network has lost its bid to handle the legal dispute over its ad-skipping technology, branded “Auto Hop,” in New York. A federal judge has ruled instead that the broadcasters suing Dish – CBS, NBC and Fox – can pursue their claims in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain granted a motion by […]
France Telecom-Orange is claiming its involvement in the Euro 2012 football tournament successfully brought the event to more fans than ever before. As the official telecommunications partner for UEFA Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, Orange’s network carried over four billion megabytes (3.7 petabytes) of data between Poland and Ukraine via 6,000km of dedicated network […]
Italian DTH platform TivùSat has achieved the figure of 1.52 million active smart cards in early July, just a few days after the completion of the analogue switch-off in Italy. In recent weeks there has been a sharp increase in smart card activations, surpassing the peak of 3,000 smart cards daily. As a result, currently […]
Pay-radio operator Sirius-XM added more than 600,000 net new subscribers in the quarter-year to June 30th, taking their overall subscriber total to an impressive 22.9 million. The numbers were some 38 per cent up on the same Q2 period last year (452,147) and means that the radio company has now added more than 1 million […]
Chinese Internet and broadcasting authorities have ordered intensified efforts to regulate online video content. The State Internet Information Office and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) have this week jointly issued a circular asking online video content providers to closely examine their videos before making them available for viewing. According to the […]
SES has confirmed that the SES-5 satellite has successfully been launched into orbit. The SES-5 satellite was designed and built for SES by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a leading manufacturer of commercial satellites. The spacecraft, to be positioned at the orbital slot of 5 degrees East, features 36 active Ku-band transponders and up to 24 active […]
Telstra has denied it is poised to make a large-scale acquisition in the media sector. In his first public appearance since joining the Australian telco in January, Telstra media boss Rick Ellis rejected reports that he was weighing up an imminent offer for the debt-laden Nine Entertainment, or any other player in the free-to-air television […]
South Korea’s LG Electronics says it is confident that it can beat arch-rival Samsung in the race to get mass-market OLED displays available. LG is already the world’s second-largest TV manufacturer (after Samsung) and is now safe in the knowledge that its other main rivals, Sony and Panasonic, are somewhat late to the OLED party […]
China’s Youku has reached an online distribution deal with another Hollywood studio. The Internet television company announced it has signed a multiple-year agreement with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution for VoD rights in China. The deal covers a broad collection of current, library and upcoming NBCUniversal feature. The films will be available for on-demand viewing through […]