According to ChoiceStream's 2007 Survey of Viewer Trends in TV and Online Video, 65 per cent of consumers who watch video on their computers, mobile devices or digital media players are watching professionally-produced TV programming, including network- and cable-produced shows, news and sports. This number exceeds the39 per cent of consumers watching user-generated video by […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Spanish telco company is launching Terra TV, a free-of-charge VoD service through the Internet, financed by ad revenues, that will allow users to watch TV programmes, specific Internet-adapted content (similar to MySpace TV’s minisodes) and share content with others. Running at 1Mbps speed, the service is aimed at […]
The telco TV market is quickly adding new deployments and subscribers, which is boosting headend equipment sales as each deployment requires at least one headend, reports research firm In-Stat. Growth in the ranks of subscribers means more revenue from licence, service, and support fees for vendors of middleware, content protection, and on-demand platforms, the high-tech […]
Funding received by the BBC via the licence fee could soon be diminished following possible reforms ordered by media regulator Ofcom. One option under review could lead to the licence fee being sliced up so that money could be channeled to other organisations to spend on “public service” web and television ventures. Though the BBC […]
The chief executive of Vivendi has dismissed renewed talk on that his group may sell pay-TV unit Canal Plus. The statement followed speculation that the French media giant might exit Canal Plus in order to buy telecom operator Neuf Cegetel and so avoid possible competition issues. Vivendi has a 56 per cent stake in mobile […]
Former Channel 4 managing director David Scott has been appointed chief executive of analogue TV switchover body Digital UK. Scott will take up the post, which puts him in overall charge of the switchover programme, when current director Ford Ennals leaves in February 2008. Scott was a member of the original management team which launched […]
Australia's Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy minister Stephen Conroy has ordered that free-to-air television be broadcast only in a digital signal in all major cities by 2009 with a final switch-over across the nation by 2013. The Howard government before the 2004 election had proposed a date of 2008 for the switch Conroy said moving […]
Internet TV platform Brightcove, and IAC have announced a wide-ranging agreement giving IAC businesses the opportunity to launch comprehensive Internet video initiatives with Brightcove. Ticketmaster, Citysearch and 23/6 are among the first IAC brands to utilise Brightcove’s platform to create, manage, publish, distribute and monetise video on the Web. Under the terms of the agreement, […]
Verizon, US leading wireless provider, and MediaFLO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, have teamed up to bring fans full-length coverage of 24 American football 'bowl' games, kicking off with ESPN Mobile TV's telecast of the Poinsettia Bowl. Coverage of the 2008 bowl games will be provided by ESPN Mobile TV, CBS Mobile and FOX […]
Channel 4 is previewing the first episode of the new series of its flagship drama Shameless exclusively on MySpace. Shameless already has a profile on the social networking site with 16,800 fans so far. The first episode of the fifth series will be split into four eight-minute segments and premiered on MySpace from 26th December.