Deutsche Telekom has added two new channels to its IPTV service ‘T-Home Entertain’. Fox International Channels-owned BabyTV will air 24 hours a day, commercial-free, as part of the Entertain, Kids and BigTV packages, whilst Spiegel TV Wissen will be available in standard definition in the documentary and BigTV packages and in HD as part of […]
Sports fans across Europe can stay ahead of the game thanks to Eurosport’s new mobile score centre for iPhone, available in 9 languages. Providing scores, results and goal alerts from live matches across a range of major team and individual sports, Eurosport claims the free app is one of the most comprehensive results apps in […]
John Cassy, BSkyB’s director of 3D, says that there’s far too much pessimism about 3D for TV, especially on the 3D movie side of the business, but Sky remains firmly committed to investing in more 3D content. Cassy was speaking having come direct from London Zoo where Sky’s latest documentary (‘3D Meercats’, a co-production with […]
Spain’s Telefonica, operator of the IPTV service Imagenio with almost 800,000 subscribers, is entering into the production TV business following its agreement with pubcaster RTVE to develop several entertainment and cultural TV programmes. The deal has already borne fruit with the release of the first TV productions: “Entre dos aguas” a documentary about music, and […]
Microsoft is hailing a new era in television with entertainment becoming “instantly searchable, easily discoverable and enjoyable in extraordinary new ways from a single device” – the company’s Xbox 360. Microsoft plans to roll out the next generation of TV entertainment on Xbox LIVE, the online entertainment service for Xbox 360. Nearly 40 world-leading TV […]
Sixty French net users could have their connection cut for a month after ignoring letters telling them to stop infringing copyright. They are the first to reach the end of the controversial ‘Hadopi’ process France operates to tackle pirates. About 650,000 people have received one warning and a further 44,000 are on their second warning. […]
The BBC has been naming the cuts required for a 20 per cent budget saving over five years – the licence fee has been frozen for that period. No content services are going but BBC 3 and 4 have been reclassified as ‘feeder’ services for BBC1 and 2. As such there will be no need […]
Social networks have become more effective marketing tools than traditional media, says Fox Broadcasting’s VP of entertainment Kevin Reilly. Speaking at the MIPCOM Reilly said using social networks to generate buzz ahead of show premieres has helped harness new audiences. “Many of our promotional messages, and at times even the shows themselves, weren’t penetrating, so […]
Steve Jobs of Apple has succumbed to the cancer that has dogged him for the past decade, he was 56 years-old. President Obama said he was a great American innovator while life-long rival Bill Gates said his impact would be felt for generations to come. Ironically, as a former hippie, he ultimately lead what in […]
Rather than disrupt television, digital technology has transformed it, according to Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group. Delivering the MIPCOM Personality of the Year Keynote Address, Sweeney said that Disney would continue to be a content creator and technology innovator, and recognised that the broadcast industry was now doing things […]