BSkyB has added its voice to concerns about Project Kangaroo, the online television service planned by ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide. Many of the channels on Sky's subscription TV service draw heavily on archive programming. In its filing to the Competition Commission, which is investigating Kangaroo, Sky argued that the service "might be expected […]
blinkx, one of the largest video search engines, has launched blinkx BBTV. The company noted that BBTV is available in the browser, without any software download, integrating video into the fibre of the web for true, full-screen online TV, much like the BBC iPlayer..The new web-based release enables users to instantly and easily browse or […]
KT Corp, South Korea’s top fixed-line and broadband provider, has announced it will invest $1.5 billion in its IPTV service by 2012 and expected a break-even as early as 2011.KT is offering a trial of full IPTV service, including real-time TV programme transmission, as of this week. A commercial service will start as early as […]
From David Del Valle in MadridSpanish TV network Antena 3 TV, has become the first commercial TV channel in Spain to be available live via mobile phones. The company has signed an agreement with Vodafone that allows its 3G customers to watch the commercial TV channel through their phones. 70 per cent of Antena 3 […]
The UK independent production firm All3Media has bought Illumina Digital to expand its multimedia division. It said Illumina would sit alongside its existing digital specialists North One, Maverick, Lion and Conker Media.
AEPOC is the European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services (Association Européenne pour la Protection des Œuvres et services Cryptés). Its members include 31 of the major players in the European digital television and telecommunications sector. In particular, AEPOC brings together and represents operators in 4 entrepreneurial sectors: Television Channels, Suppliers of […]
When it was established in 1983, FACT's primary purpose was to protect the United Kingdom's film and broadcasting industry against counterfeiting, copyright and trademark infringements. FACT did this by representing the interests of its members in the face of the steady influx of illegal – or pirated – films and videos. Today, the Federation is […]
The Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG) is a not for profit trade association, recognised as a leading authority on the worldwide trade in fakes. ACG was founded in the UK in 1980 with just 18 members in the automotive industry, who discovered that they all had a common problem with counterfeit parts. We now represent nearly 200 […]
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris French mobile telephone operator Bouygues Telecom (part of the Bouygues construction group which owns TF1) is to launch a triple/quad French mobile telephone operator Bouygues Telecom (part of the Bouygues construction group which owns TF1) is to launch a triple/quad play service called BBox on 20 October. The triple play […]
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has labelled YouTube a “parasite” that lives off the TV shows and content created from the broadcaster’s £1 billion (E1.256bn) But Grade said he did not consider the rise of technology companies such as Google, which owns YouTube, to be a threat to ITV. “The day that Google or Joost […]