Time Warner’s HBO is making nearly all of its titles available for its HBO Go service. The company says it is putting more than 1,400 of its shows on its service that lets subscribers to the premium pay channel instantly watch its programming through devices with broadband connections. Previously, HBO GO offered about 600 titles. […]
Multimedia Polska, Poland’s third largest cable operator has expanded its cable-TV offer with three channels from Polish satellite operator Polsat. Polsat Sport, Polsat News and Polsat channels are now available to Multimedia Polska analogue TV subscribers. Nine channels from Polsat were introduced for digital TV subscribers earlier this year. Meanwhile, the cableco has reported that […]
The cable industry scored record highs in both national and local advertising revenues in 2010, according to the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau. Cable ad revenues were $27.1 billion, up 12 per cent from 2009. National network revenues were $20.5 billion, up 9.6 per cent and local cable revenues jumped 20 per cent to $6.6 billion. “In […]
ITV has appointed previous Head of E4 Angela Jain to Director of Digital Channels and Acquisitions. Peter Fincham, Director of Television said: “Angela has a very impressive background in finding hot new talent, having an eye for acquisitions that create a real buzz and delivering returning favourites time and time again. She is also one […]
WizTiVi, an expert in the development and operation of platforms, has developed the new interactive application ComFM, the first radio portal in France. Available on Toshiba’s connected TV service Toshiba Places, the ComFM interactive portal gives access to a wide range of live radio, web-radio and podcasts, as well as original editorial updates. The ComFM […]
Vodafone Iceland has selected Amino next generation HD STB for the next phase of its IPTV service rollout. The company will deploy a number of Amino A140 SD/HD STBs as part of a service upgrade of its IPTV service which offers VOD, catch-up and broadcast of close to 100 TV channels to its 25,000+ customers. […]
Matt Brittin, Managing Director, UK and Ireland for Google, has conceded that the Internet giant’s initial effort at entering the TV market was less than successful. “We haven’t given up; we know it was a first attempt,” he told delegates at the FT Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference in London. Google reportedly asked TV set […]
The BBC’s international iPlayer app will cost less than $10 a month when it launches later this year, according to Director General Mark Thompson. Speaking at the FT Digital Media & Broadcasting conference in London, Thompson said the global version of the corporation’s online catch-up service for iPads will launch “definitely this year”, adding that […]
Shane O’Neill, Chief Strategy Officer at Liberty Global, has suggested that so long as the cable TV industry “continues to innovate, and quickly,” there is no need to panic at the threat posed by ‘cord cutting’, whereby subscribers churn out of their pay-TV subscriptions in favour of online content sources. He told delegates at the […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO increased its subscribers in 2010 but total revenues and profits dropped by 2.7 per cent to €1.472 billion and 7.1 per cent to €47 million, respectively, with an EBITDA decreasing 0.8 per cent to €725 million. The company ended the year with 4.31 million residential subs (triple play), up 2.3 […]