Internet technologies have been a catalyst to turn TV into a mash-up of many kinds of content and then bring it to any screen, while TV viewing has become more fragmented according to a report from Pyramid Research. “While content owners can bypass pay-TV operators by going direct to consumers over the Internet, the operators’ […]
Earlier this week it was India’s Dish TV that was making headlines with its plan to raise another $200 million of capital. Today it is another Subhash Chandra-linked operation, Zee News Ltd (ZNL) that is in the news. Zee News on Oct 27 reported that it had posted a net profit of 2.24 million Rupees […]
Mobile phone users in rural areas could soon see their 3G reception improve after regulators allowed operators to repurpose their existing spectrum for mobile broadband services. The ruling by Ofcom that refarming of 900MHz and 1800MHz spectrum would not harm competition in the UK mobile market settles a three-year row that has held back the […]
Racing UK TV will be available via IPTV from next week following a deal between the leading horseracing channel and internet broadcast company Vision IPTV . Race fans can now receive the channel by purchasing a Freeview and Internet SmartBox from FetchTV through a heavily-discounted one-off payment. As a special joining offer, any residential customer […]
YouView is “not anti-competitive, it creates competition” according to Kip Meek, Chairman of the venture, who argued that it created content at three levels: device, content and platform. Meek suggested that as YouView was an early stage project, it would have been difficult for Ofcom or any competition authority to have deemed it anti-competitive at […]
Neil Berkett, Virgin Media CEO, has used the company’s results announcement to attack Ofcom’s decision not to investigate YouView, the BBC-originated platform to bring VoD to Freeview and Freesat. Berkett said he surmised Ofcom had seen its 25 per cent budget cut coming and has wrongly ‘deprioritised’ the issue. “When you have less resources to […]
Cablevision the biggest US cable provider said that its Q3 profits fell as customers cut back television services amid a weak economy and the growth of online video content. Net income at Comcast declined by 8.2 per cent to $867 million, down from $944 million, in the same period a year ago. “We are increasing […]
Virgin Media has announced revenue increased 6.4 per cent year on year in the third quarter to £978 million (€1.11bn) and that it would roll out superfast 100Mb broadband from December with pre-registration for the service opening today. Virgin Media claims that 13 million homes will have the potential to access the 100Mb service as […]
Major studios, cable and technology companies announced the launch of an Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) to track movies, TV shows and other. Likening it to the International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) system used to identify books, members of the initiative said the registry was developed to make it easier for businesses to search, track and […]
Hoping to make Google’s TV less intimidating, Best Buy is offering free installation and set-up in the run up to Christmas to customers who purchase a Sony Internet TV or a Blu-ray player powered by Google TV. The electronics retailer’s Geek Squad Agents will deliver, install and connect the new gear, and also provide tips […]