Digital entertainment solutions provider Rovi Corporation has unveiled a major update to its Rovi Advertising Network aimed at providing marketers with advanced tools for driving higher rates of engagement with TV advertising across set-top boxes, connected TVs, media players, game consoles and more. New features are designed to enable consumers to more fully interact with […]
SugarDVD has opened up its Unlimited TV Streaming service to all Playstation 3 and Google TV users in the US. Anyone with a Roku, Boxee, Playstation 3 or a Google TV device can instantly stream hundreds of movies to their TV using SugarDVD’s service. The apps require no downloading or discs, giving new users instant […]
The Associated Press has launched its HD AP Entertainment news service. This is the first phase of AP’s HD rollout timetable, which will see all news content available in HD by the second quarter of 2012. As part of its multimillion-dollar upgrade, the AP is transforming its video business by switching its entire newsgathering, production […]
Sky Deutschland has delivered another set of encouraging results ahead of analysts’ expectations. The operator added 98,000 net customers in the third quarter, doubling its additions year-on-year and taking net additions for the year to over 200,200. Gross adds were 188,000, up 17 per cent year-on-year, while churn fell to 12.7 per cent from 18.5 […]
Coinciding with the launch of its Wireless HD Net Connect product, a study from Philips suggests that the adoption of online video content may motivate some Americans to cancel or downgrade cable subscriptions. The study found that the vast majority (80 per cent) of people who watch video content online do so on laptops, and […]
The second consolidation move in the Spanish cable market is under way. Following the recent sale of Telecable, in the north of Spain to The Carlyle Group, now Euskatel, the second largest cable company behind ONO, is also moving with the consolidation tide. Savings banks BBK and Kutxa, owners of more than 60 per cent […]
Canal Plus is expected to complete its due diligence of Polish broadcaster TVN within weeks, ahead of a planned merger of the two companies’ pay-TV units, TVN Chief Executive Markus Tellenbach told a press conference. The companies have yet to determine the proportion of stakes each will get in the merged pay-TV firm, he added. […]
According to findings from entertainment, media and technology market research firm Interpret, despite the “monumental” growth of online TV viewership, the effects on cord-cutting have so far been minimal. Interpret’s report – Online TV: Competitor or Complement to Traditional TV? – analyses the quarterly evolution of online television and what drives consumers to access this […]
According to findings from market research firm The NPD Group, ‘throttling down’ is a bigger threat to television service providers than ‘cord cutting’. The firm’s report – Entertainment Trends in America – suggests that many consumers are supplementing their pay television offerings from cable TV, satellite TV and IPTV operators. Looking beyond traditional basic and […]
Kabel BW, which Liberty Global wants to buy for €3.16 billion has reported nine-month adjusted earnings rose 15 per cent as customers bought more pay-TV and Internet services. EBITDA rose to €268.1 million from €232.5 million a year earlier, the company said. Liberty Global is waiting for Germany’s antitrust regulator to decide by December 15th […]