Tom Rogers wants marketers, cable operators and networks to unite behind the solutions TiVo offers to what ails their industry during a time of incessant digital change and disruption. TiVo is no longer just about revolutionising audience control and choice, he said. “We’re about figuring how that contributes to a business model on the industry […]
ProSiebenSat.1 has sold its news channel N24 to management. The disposal will cost the Group over E50 million in write downs. The new N24 Media company has a contract to deliver all the news programming to Sat.1 until the end of 2016.
Broadband subscription growth took an upswing during the first quarter of 2010, supported in part by healthy DSL growth in every region, strong fibre rollouts in Asia and aggressive IPTV service offerings. Figures from the Broadband Forum show that global broadband lines now top 484 million lines (484,788,597), representing a 3.12 per cent growth in […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the largest cable, satellite, and Telco TV providers in the US acquired over 1.7 million net additional multi-channel video subscribers over the past year. While the top ten cable companies cumulatively lost about 1.4 million cable TV subscribers in the year-long period through the end of the first […]
MoCA, the worldwide standard for home entertainment networking, has ratified its next-generation specification, MoCA 2.0. MoCA 2.0 offers two performance modes, Basic and Enhanced, with 400 Mbps and 800 Mbps net throughputs (MAC), using 700 Mbps and 1.4 Gbps PHY rates, respectively. For point-to-point WAN applications, performance can be optimized for two node networks with […]
Ericsson is enabling DishTV, India's largest direct-to-home satellite operator, to improve its satellite bandwidth efficiency, increase channel capacity and offer more choice to its subscribers in HD and SD. The head-end upgrade enables DishTV's 7 million subscribers to enjoy new HD services. Viewers can also access new SD channels without the need to swap existing […]
Alticast, a South Korean maker of software that connects televisions to the Internet, is planning an initial public offering in the first half of next year to help fund its expansion in the Americas. Alticast, based in Seoul, would be listed either on the Korean Stock Exchange or Nasdaq Stock Market, Alticast Americas Chief Executive […]
Irdeto has announced that Astro , Malaysia's leading cross-media broadcaster and direct-to-home satellite pay-TV operator, has selected the company's content management solution to power the live streaming and on-demand broadband delivery of all 64 FIFA World Cup 2010 matches on the Astro B.yond Player. Additionally, Irdeto will power mobile access to live matches via Astro […]
Mediaset, which has been ordered to repay millions of Euros it had received in state aid relating to DTT set-top box subsidies (see ATV 16/06/10), will appeal the European General Court's decision. Mediaset will appeal to the European Court of Justice and say that the subsidies were provided direct to consumers and not to broadcasters, […]
About £55 million (E66m) is the forecast surplus from the £200m set aside of the BBC license fee for Digital UK to promote DSO. The switch has gone more smoothly than expected, leaving the company responsible for informing customers, Digital UK, with a projected £55 million surplus that will be handed back to the government […]