Norwegian triple-play operator Altibox has entered into a strategic cooperation with commercial television station TV 2, under which Altibox is helping to finance TV 2’s recent acquisition of broadcast rights for English Premier League games, and will add all TV 2 channels to the line-up for its IPTV service. TV 2 won the rights to […]
Netflix’s first-quarter income rose 44 per cent as the movie subscription service added 1.7 million more customers. The service has picked up more than 5 million subscribers in the past 18 months as more households are embracing Netflix’s DVD-by-mail and Internet video packages. Netflix ended March with nearly 14 million subscribers and expects to add […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid ONO, Spain's dominant MSO that recently completed a major debt restructure, is now planning an IPO to raise further fresh capital. CEO Rosalia Portela said and IPO later this year might raise E700-E1 billion and the company would also look to tap the bond market for further funds. The […]
Virgin Media, the UK's sole significant cable operator, is completing its long road to restructuring its debt taken on through consolidation. Eamonn O'Hare, finance director, says scheduled repayments have been reduced from £4.8 billion (E5.5bn) by 2012 to £325 million by 2013, and there is no single payment over £200 million before 2015. He says […]
News Corp has acquired Irata Labs, a developer of social games across Twitter and Facebook. It seems Irata will be tapped to work with various News Corp. holdings when needed, rather than folded into MySpace or News Corp's existing games companies. At the moment, the company says it's developing a location-based platform for social gaming. […]
CNN.com and CNNMoney.com have launched site-wide integrations of Facebook Connect and new social plugins. The enhancements will incorporate multiple ways for CNN.com and CNNMoney.com users to seamlessly recommend, share or comment on the news site's content with their friends on Facebook, as well as see when their friends have recommended, shared or commented on CNN.com […]
Facebook is rolling out features that link the company’s platform more tightly with outside Web sites (see above). Facebook’s “open graph” would let people see information tailored to their lives and interests wherever they are on the Web, the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said. The idea is to make Facebook the centre of the […]
iThe BBC's VOD service posted rare slow growth in March. Total monthly requests grew by only 1.2 million to 117.6 million, while average daily users fell by 90,000 to 1.28 million. Radio requests were highest on record, reaching 33 million requests and TV programmes requests were 84 million. In total there were 118 million requests […]
One of the advisors to President Obama's broadband plan, the former FCC member Blair Levin, said that it was foreseeable back in the 1990s that the Internet was going to supplant broadcasting and traditional cable video service. “In 1994, you could envision as inevitable the Internet replacing existing platforms for communications and entertainment,” he said […]
SES Astra has announced that it will launch Europe's first 3D demo channel on Astra. Following initial testing, the channel will go live on May 4th 2010 in time for the opening of ANGA Cable, the international trade fair for cable broadband and satellite. The 3D demo channel will be available free-to-air via Astra's orbital […]