Leading Canadian telco Bell is actively pursuing its strategy of delivering the best content across every broadband screen in Québec by acquiring Québec’s leading media company Astral in a $3.38-billion deal. Astral’s broad national media portfolio includes top-tier TV, radio, digital and out-of-home properties. The move follows its 2011 acquisition of CTV, Canada’s leading commercial […]
PT MNC Skyvision, Indonesia’s largest pay-TV provider, has reinitiated a plan to raise $300-$400 million via an initial public offering in June to take advantage of rising consumer spending in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. The company, a unit of media group PT Global Mediacom , plans to sell a 20-30 per cent stake to the […]
Eros International, the Indian film distributor, has confirmed the beta-launch of its dedicated online entertainment service, “Eros Now”. Eros Now will provide access to Eros’ Bollywood film library as well as music videos, audio tracks and original programming. With immediate effect, Eros Now represents the Group’s overall digital brand with all digital content branded as […]
Timbre Media, backed by music label HMV Saragama India, is now playing out its 10-channel all-music bouquet on Vodafone’s cellular system. WorldSpace India has been quietly recruiting staff over the past months, and Mathewkutty Sebastian, CEO at WorldSpace India (and he was previously MD for India & the Middle East at WorldSpace Inc) says Timbre […]
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has achieved a 30 per cent increase in the subscriber base of its IPTV service. This increase has been attributed to PTCL Smart TV’s aggressive content acquisition strategy, which led to swift content enrichment as well as higher focus on improved quality of service and enhanced customer care. “We are […]
Verizon and Veveo have revealed that Verizon will license certain Veveo technology that can be used to enhance FiOS TV to provide new personalised search capabilities across a TV, phone or tablet. Veveo’s technology personalises the search and discovery process by allowing customers to browse less and watch more of the programmes, movies and other […]
Vestel has confirmed it will add the PlayJam Games Channel to its extensive product line up of televisions and digital set-top boxes, of which the company has a manufacturing capacity of 15 million and 10 million units respectively each year. The games channel will be accessible from the front page of the user-interface and sit […]
Thomson Video Networks and Verimatrix have successfully integrated a solution for high-quality delivery of OTT services with secure content protection and rights management. By combining Thomson’s ViBE VS7000 platform with the Verimatrix VCAS for Internet TV security solution, service providers can offer high picture quality while ensuring that content rights are not infringed by unauthorised […]
In a move aimed at expanding its ability to transform how service providers and media companies worldwide deliver next-generation video experiences to subscribers, Cisco has announced its intent to acquire video software and content security solutions specialist NDS. Cisco says the acquisition of NDS will complement and accelerate the delivery of Videoscape, its comprehensive platform […]
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson has confirmed that the corporation intends to offer a download service of archive content over and above the seven-day catch-up service available via iPlayer. Addressing the Royal Television Society in London, Thompson noted that after the seven day public service window, a large proportion of what the BBC makes and broadcast […]