News Corp has taken full control of mobile media company Jamba by buying VeriSign’s 49% stake for about $200m. Jamba creates content such as wallpapers, ringtones and games for mobile phones. It also produces short, made-for-mobile episodes of certain Fox television shows such as 24. VeriSign has been trying to divest its slower-growing businesses to […]
Amid the latest rumours that FCC approval for the deal is imminent, Sirius has provided a first look at the financial future of the company after the proposed merger with XM Satellite Radio. Sirius said that savings from combining with XM would total $400 million (E254m) next year, net of costs. Sirius also said that […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid 12.4 million DTT devices have been sold in Spain, of which 88% are IDTVs, according to the latest report from Impulsa TDT. Every day 7.7 million people watch DTT, representing an average share of 17.4%, with more than 6 million homes having access to DTT, with a penetration of […]
Web TV provider Livestation has put together a package for customers of the Jalipo platform that shut this week. The new owners of Jalipo, ROK Entertainment, closed the programme portal claiming it was in need of "significant unplanned investment". Livestation offers TV and radio streaming and already carries a number of channels that were available […]
Time Warner Cable and ActiveVideo Networks announced the deployment of a new television experience that will bring Web content and interactivity to the TV.The new service, which is being launched in Oceanic Time Warner Cable, intelligently streams traditional and Web-based content to any digital set-top box. ActiveVideo combines the personalized, dynamic, socially-connected experience that viewers […]
ViewCast Corporation, a leading provider of streaming media hardware and software, announced the release of its next-generation streaming media encoder, the Niagara Pro II. The Niagara Pro II is the newest in the line of Niagara encoders, which are utilized by many of the world’s leading broadcasters for high-quality, high-resolution video capture and streaming. This […]
A Freeview channel is to go up for auction. Arqiva, which holds the licence for two of the six multiplexes that make up the UK’s digital terrestrial TV platform, is calling for bidders by October 22, with the channel available from January.In 2005 Channel 4 paid about £10m (E12.8m) a year for its sixth slot […]
In a changing market, it remains essential for the roll-out of pay-TV services that conditional-access systems be protected at European level against piracy. This is the verdict of a new report published from the European Commission. Such protection is also a vital precondition for the growth of new content distribution services like video on demand, […]
When it comes to advertising, not all online video viewers are created equal, according to a new commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Veoh Networks. “Watching The Web: How Online Video Engages Audiences” reveals that while some online video viewers still only “snack” on short clips, there exists a large audience of […]
Espial, specialist in the delivery of IPTV middleware and applications, is to acquire all of the outstanding shares of IP video delivery outfit Kasenna in exchange for an aggregate of 4,722,224 Espial common shares.