CNN International has become the first international news organisation to launch a stand-alone video-enabled Google Gadget, with its launch on iGoogle. The development marks the next layer in the company's strategy to complement its existing linear distribution with an expansion of its digital presence across emerging platforms. The CNN International Google Gadget allows users to […]
Only 21.4 per cent of digital listening is to digital-only stations such as BBC7 and BBC 6Music. The rest is to stations also available on analogue, which goes some way to explain why commercial operators have struggled to make their investment in digital pay. The most popular commercial digital-only stations remain The Hits, with 1.57 […]
NDS announced operating results for the quarter ended March 31, with revenue for Q3 up 20 per cent to $213.3 million; whilst operating income rose 21 per cent to $43.3 million. The company also revealed it now has distributed 86.9 million active digital TV smart cards and has 83.1 million cumulative middleware clients deployed. Commenting […]
Nativ, the video distribution specialist, has launched Mio Workflow, what the company claims is the media industry's first fully managed service to enable broadcasters, brand owners and advertisers to distribute content across any platform. Mio Workflow provides the tools necessary to ingest, re-purpose, protect and distribute raw video assets across the entire range of distribution […]
The China Academy of Broadcasting Science has held a meeting to promote overseas partnerships on the CMMB standard, with senior officials from SARFT’s Science and Technology Department, the Academy itself, the S2M Group and Loral Space and Communications. Deputy director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) Zhang Haitao said he hopes […]
Australian Pay-TV operator Foxtel’s next generation, high-definition set-top box is close to launching. Foxtel boss Kim Williams said he is “very confident” the launch of the new Foxtel HD+ service – which will be accessible through a new iQ2 HD set-top box that will have 320GB of storage – would be available to consumers “well […]
Widevine Technologies has signed a global reseller agreement with the home and networks mobility division of Motorola. The agreement enables Motorola to sell, service and support Widevine's downloadable conditional access and digital rights management products globally. Motorola offers best-of-breed head-end and consumer device solutions while Widevine Cypher, a downloadable conditional access, digital rights management and […]
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has flagged up potential competition concerns with Kangaroo, the on-demand service planned by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The watchdog is inviting interested parties to comment on the venture and is asking for submissions by May 14. It will then consider whether it has grounds to refer […]
Announcing Q1 results Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes finally confirmed the company's intention to spin off TE's 84 per cent stake in Time Warner Cable, the country's second-largest operator. But no details were immediately given on how the Time Warner Cable stock would be separated. “We've decided that a complete structural separation of Time Warner […]
Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster ITV has revealed the shock news that its managing director of global content, Dawn Airey, had resigned with immediate effect, less than a year after she joined the company. She will be taking an extended period of gardening leave prior to joining pan-European broadcaster RTL Group in a senior position, including […]