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FastWeb boost for Swisscom

Broadband communications recorded sustained strong growth year-on-year: The number of fixed-line and broadband connections rose by 193,000 (+12.8 per cent) to 1,699,000. As at the end of June 2008, Swisscom's Bluewin TV IPTV service counted around 80,000 paying customers. Net growth compared to the previous year amounted to around 40,000 customers. The average one-time cost […]

August 14, 2008

Siano raises $17.5m for mobile TV expansion

Eldad Tamir, co-founder and General Partner at DFJ-Tamir Fishman Ventures, said the firm had been keeping a constant eye out for noteworthy investment opportunities. "We've been observing the mobile TV market and its ever-rising potential for some time now." “The consumer market is now starting to fulfil the vision that gave birth to Siano back […]

August 14, 2008

Digital distribution hits Private

Sales decreased to E5.2 million for the three-month period ended June 30, 2008. The company reported a net loss of E0.8 million for the quarter. Private Media Group CFO Johan Gillborg said that during the first quarter of 2008, restructuring plans were developed in response to the shift of the Company’s business model from traditional […]

August 14, 2008

Impact for Comcast, MGM

The new channel, available first to Comcast customers this week, features a host of exciting and popular action films and television shows, many available in high-definition (HD). Matt Strauss, Senior Vice President, New Media, Comcast Cable said movies were a very popular feature on VOD

August 14, 2008

Malone plays down DirecTV-Dish merger

The merger rumour surfaced following speculation that federal officials could be inclined to support it, following their approval of the XM-Sirius satellite radio merger. DirecTV and Dish attempted to merge several years ago, but the FCC rejected it in 2002 on competition grounds. In an earnings call following release of the company’s second quarter report, […]

August 14, 2008

US Olympics fans go online

NBC Olympics tops the survey, ahead of Yahoo Olympics, AOL Olympics; Beijing2008.cn and New York Times Olympics. Rounding out the top 10 are ESPN Olympics, USA Today Olympics, Olympics.org, BBC Olympics and Sports Illustrated Olympics. The audience to NBC's Olympics video offering – which will include more than 2,000 hours of live coverage during the […]

August 14, 2008

DVB-H in Austrian roll-out

The new regions will now also be able to receive 15 TV programs as well as five radio programmes. The service line-up includes the four made-for-mobile TV channels LAOLA1.tv, LALA TV, Krone TV and Red Bull TV, but also ORF1, ORF2, ATV, Puls4, Pro7 Austria, RTL, Sat1 Österreich, VOX, RTL2, N24 and SUPER RTL as […]

August 12, 2008

SafeNet secures CCTV online Olympics

CCTV.com has been recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the only official internet/mobile broadcaster of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and therefore owns exclusive rights to the broadcast of all audio and video content via online and mobile distribution channels across Mainland China and Macau. CCTV has committed to protect the intellectual property […]

August 12, 2008

NXP completes Conexant deal

With this transaction, the first for its Home Business Unit, NXP's existing set-top box (STB) and digital TV (DTV) operations will be combined with Conexant's BMP business. NXP's Home business unit adds high-performance STB system solutions for satellite, cable and IP STB, expanding its existing portfolio in terrestrial STB, IP STB and DTV. The acquisition […]

August 12, 2008

South Africa mobile TV policy U-turn

If there had been only one network provider, which was expected to be Sentech, all companies wishing to enter the market would have been forced to go through that company. The news will be welcomed by companies such as pay-TV provider MultiChoice, which has plans to have its mobile TV service available before the 2010 […]

August 12, 2008