Setanta Sports News has revealed it will launch on November 29th this year.. The 24-hour channel will be available free-to-air on the Virgin Media platform, and also on satellite, and it will cover, in detail, all relevant sports stories from the UK and abroad. Setanta Sports News is jointly owned by Setanta Sports and Virgin […]
Dick Parsons is to step down as chief executive of media giant Time Warner. Parsons will be replaced by Jeff Bewkes, the company’s president and chief operating officer, on January 1st next year. Bewkes had been chief executive at HBO where he was credited with building it into a profit driver for the company with […]
Alcatel-Lucent’s Mobile Interactive TV solution had been selected by Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, to deliver its first fully interactive Mobile TV service. Telstra Mobile Foxtel by Telstra encompasses 33 channels in packages across 5 genres. The convergent capabilities of Mobile TV will allow Foxtel customers with Foxtel iQ to […]
Telescope, player in participation media services and Akamai, service provider for accelerating content and applications online, have provided the first multi-channel voting platform for participation media events, part of a growing industry that has become more significant to broadcasters. The two companies have successfully delivered the application, which enables audience members of participation TV shows […]
The English Football League has secured new broadcasting agreements with Sky Sports and BBC Sport, worth a total of £264 million (E378m), to run for three seasons from 2009/10. The new agreements will see Sky Sports continue its coverage of Coca-Cola Football League, Carling Cup and Johnstone's Paint Trophy matches. Live Coca-Cola Championship and Carling […]
The worldwide digital radio market is on a roll, with unit sales expected to increase more than three-fold from 2006 to 2011, reports In-Stat, the high-tech market research firm. Recent developments include the availability of the enhanced Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)+ standard in the UK, an increase in the number of DAB trials throughout Europe […]
The developers of MPH in-band mobile digital television (DTV) have told members of the Community Broadcasters Association that their innovative technology, which is designed to reach viewers on the move, has the potential to generate new revenue streams for DTV broadcasters in general and the nation’s community broadcasters in particular. “Delivering robust DTV signals to […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Italy’s communications regulator, AGCOM, has recommended that public broadcaster RAI and commercial rival Mediaset should make available 40 per cent of the capacity on their digital multiplexes to smaller broadcasters and new operators. AGCOM has also established that independent media groups, and national operators that need to extend digital coverage […]
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB has increased the minimum amount of new programming which must be broadcast by channels on its Electronic Programme Guide (EPG). In a letter to broadcasters, BSkyB said that from 1 July 2008, it would “only provide an EPG listing to television channels and radio stations which broadcast no less than 6 hours […]
Swisscom AG is to shut down its interactive television operation Betty TV in Switzerland. ‘The results from Betty TV (Switzerland) were significantly below our expectations,’ said spokesman Carsten Roetz in an interview. Betty TV gained 10,000 customers in Switzerland and 100,000 in Germany since its launch last June. But Swisscom had produced 300,000 devices for […]