AOL Europe is demonstrates its commitment to video with the appointment of Kelly Sweeney to the new role of director of video. She will be responsible for commissioning original productions and managing relationships with production partners and advertisers. Sweeney served as head of original content at social network Bebo and was line producer on shows […]
Google is testing a new TV programme search service on Dish Network reports the WSJ. The service allows users to search content from Dish, as well as other Web video sites, and runs on TV set-top boxes that include elements of Google’s Android operating system. Google hopes to link the TV search service with its […]
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland has set March 19th to close an Initial Public Offering looking to raise over E700 million in return for floating 25-30 per cent. The price range for the IPO is expected to be announced today with the offer open from the end of this week. KDG has held talks with […]
Sony has set the target of selling 2.5 million 3D televisions in nine months. Yoshihisa Ishida, the head of Sony's televisions business, said the Japanese company hoped to sell 25 million TVs in the year to March 2011 with 3D sets accounting for at least one tenth of that. That is a 67% increase on […]
Spanish cable operator ONO is to receive a E200 million shareholder loan as part of its refinancing. ONO will have immediate access to E125 million immediately with E75 million in liquidity reserve. The shareholder contribution is a boost to ONO's restructuring efforts though it needs more cash to meet debt covenants and a bond issue […]
Dailymotion and Warner Music Group have announced a new partnership to offer music videos via Dailymotion’s website in the US, Europe and North Africa. Visitors will be given unlimited, on-demand, ad-supported access to thousands of music videos, concerts and interviews from Warner Music’s roster of local and international acts. Under the terms of the agreement, […]
Verimatrix has announced the appointment of Petr Peterka as its new Chief Technology Officer. Petr joins Verimatrix as his latest role in an impressive career at the forefront of the San Diego technology and global digital TV scenes. Prior to joining Verimatrix, Peterka was a member of the Technical Staff in the CTO’s office at […]
Hybrid Television Services (ANZ), the exclusive licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand and creator of CASPATM On-Demand, has restructured the business to support the expansion of services. The restructuring will take Hybrid TV from being purely a TiVo licensee to a VOD and interactive service provider in its own right.
Grupo Prisa and Liberty Acquisition Holdings have announced a combination of the two companies and a rights issue reserved for current Prisa shareholders by Grupo Prisa, resulting in a cash infusion of up to $900 million in Prisa. Grupo Prisa is the leading Spanish and Portuguese-language media group whose interests include news, entertainment, education and […]
TiVo and Conax, a global provider of security solutions for digital TV and content distribution, have partnered to offer a next generation DVB set-top box platform for deployment by television operators around the world. Through this partnership, the companies will put the TiVo experience, including its revolutionary integration of IP-delivered video into an off-the-shelf package […]