“Not only are we seeing record highs for several properties but to see them during seasonally slow months attests to the benefit of combination across these great categories. It also serves to prove the value of on-air call outs and brand building support via purposeful cross promotion from CBS Television and CBS Radio,” said Quincy […]
Freeview had warned customers about the upgrade process via local media. It estimated that 230,000 of the 23 million Freeview boxes sold to date would no longer work. These were early models, made before the industry-standard ';digital tick' logo came into effect in May 2006 to indicate that equipment was designed to work through the […]
Writing on the BBC Internet blog, Huggers suggested that the BBC has always been a strong advocate and driver of open industry standards. "Without these standards, TV and radio broadcasting would simply not function," he wrote. "I believe that the time has come for the BBC to start adopting open standards such as H.264 and […]
“Many consumers are unaware that there are immediate benefits to making the transition, such as enjoying the digital services Public Television stations are providing now,” said APTS Acting President and CEO Mark Erstling. As of May 2008, 62 per cent of over-the-air households said they would opt to buy a converter box or digital television, […]
The survey found that the 98.1 per cent of individuals watched or listened to the ceremony. Of these, 97.7 per cent viewed the ceremony on television, while 13.7 per cent viewed the ceremony online, 11.4 per cent listened to it on the radio, and 6.4 per cent watched on televisions in public transit systems. The […]
On June 24, Howard Davine, executive vice-president of ABC Studios, allegedly wrote a memo to executive producers urging them to "carefully scrutinise" whether licensing foreign formats "is necessary or appropriate". The leaked memo, which first appeared on the Los Angeles blog site Deadline Hollywood Daily and has, in recent weeks, been picked up by several […]
Purchased/rented videos are expected to offer the most robust growth for online video in the near term, in large part due to an increase in subscription services such as Netflix, which charges a flat monthly fee to deliver an optimal combination of packaged goods and online content that can be viewed on home TV sets. […]
“In this age of four dollars-a-gallon gas and staycations, we felt that VUDU customers deserved a break and should be able to watch a great film for just 99 cents,” said Patrick Cosson, VP of Marketing for VUDU. He said the initiative would make it easier for viewers to finish watching a great movie when […]
The report shows that in 2007 an average of seven hours and nine minutes a day was spent using an array of communications services – up by six minutes from 2002. "This includes watching television, surfing the net, using our mobiles, talking on a landline phone and listening to the radio," said Ofcom. Despite this […]
The report shows that in 2007 an average of seven hours and nine minutes a day was spent using an array of communications services – up by six minutes from 2002. "This includes watching television, surfing the net, using our mobiles, talking on a landline phone and listening to the radio," said Ofcom. Despite this […]