Modern Times Group (MTG), has confirmed that Viasat Broadcasting has signed a long term agreement with Telenor which will enable Viasat to distribute its pay-TV channel packages to Telenor's broadband customers. Viasat's channel packages will continue to be available to Telenor subsidiary Bredbandsbolaget's subscribers in Sweden and will also be included in Telenor's IPTV offering […]
UK VOD platform SeeSaw has contracted NEOVIA Financial which will handle all payments made on SeeSaw.com for premium content via the NETBANX international payment gateway. Payment options will include credit and debit cards and the NETELLER e-wallet. The implementation will include rolled-up payments, subscription billing, Direct Debit as well as streaming micropayments via the NETELLER […]
Discovery Communications has announced the global launch of TLC, one of the fastest-growing female lifestyle channels in the US. The international version of TLC will have its global launch today in Norway and will be available in more than 75 markets reaching more than 100 million households by spring 2011, making it the most widely […]
Fuel TV, the network dedicated to the lifestyle of action sports, is expanding into new territories in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) this week. The network will be available to this region via the Eutelsat Eurobird 9A satellite. Germany, which has the largest TV market in Europe, will be one of the first […]
Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, has said that net neutrality will come under regulatory scrutiny this year. He said the scale of deployment of next-generation broadband networks would depend on greater clarity on this issue. The battle lines have already been drawn: The BBC and BT clashed last year over the bandwidth consumed by […]
Fastweb and Sparkle have been given 48 hours by a Rome judge to propose alternatives to the Italian broadband operators being put under court administration for their alleged role in a E2 billionn tax fraud and money laundering scam. Silvio Scaglia, the billionaire founder of Fastweb and the investor behind Babelgum, denied any wrongdoing when […]
Archie Norman, the new chairman of ITV, has said that developing its own content would be crucial to the future of the commercial broadcaster, as full-year figures showed the company had returned to profit. Figures for the year to December 31st showed ITV turned to a pre-tax profit of £25 million (E27.5m) after a loss […]
Viacom has decided to remove its shows from Hulu. The companies said that they were parting amicably, but Viacom's decision is a serious loss for Hulu, its “The Daily Show” is listed as the third-most-watched show on the site. “We tried to reach a deal. We got close. We continued to talk even over the […]
The BBC has confirmed most of the details leaked about its strategic review. Its recommendations are now subject to public comment and approval by the BBC Trust. As expected headlines were grabbed by the proposed closure of DAB radio stations for the Asian community and BBC 6, the 'specialist' music station, both of which had […]
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government has approved lower advertising ceilings for pay TV that News Corp's Italian unit says will curtail its growth and that of other networks on Rupert Murdoch's satellite platform. New regulations will gradually limit the maximum amount of advertising per hour of pay television programming, to 12 per cent in […]