BSkyB has confirmed it is to launch a legal challenge against key conclusions of the Competition Commission’s report on its investment in ITV plc and the Secretary of State’s consequent decision that it should dispose of the majority of its 17.9 per cent shareholding. Sky will lodge its application with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) […]
Davide Rossi, chief of AEPOC, the anti-digital media piracy industry association, has denied allegations in the Italian press that he is implicated in smart card pirate ring. In recent days Rossi has been named in two Italian newspapers in connection with information acquired in raids in France, Poland, Greece and Sicily. The public prosecutor in […]
Worldwide sales of digital TV set-top boxes broke through the 100 million barrier for the first time in 2007, according to research from Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service. The report, “Digital TV Set-Top Boxes: Global Market Forecast” found that sales reached 102.4 million units last year, an annual increase of 12 per cent. IPTV’s […]
Google launched a new advertising technology that will allow publishers to incorporate text ads into online videos. The launch marks the search group's most ambitious attempt yet to make money by selling ads that appear inside video clips. Under the new system, advertisers will pay to have their messages appear inside online videos across the […]
An IDC study of consumer online behaviour found that the Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time (32.7 hours/week). This is equivalent to almost half of the total time spent each week using all media (70.6 hours), almost twice as much time as spent watching television (16.4 hours), and more […]
A majority of marketers believe that television advertising has become less effective in the past two years, but marketers are interested in exploring new ad formats and new forms of video commercials, according to the fourth biennial TV & Technology survey conducted by the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research. Sixty-two per cent of […]
NBC Universal has revealed will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including “The A-Team”, “Buck Rogers” and “Kojak,” on its websites. Beginning this month, the shows will be available on NBC.com and on network-owned niche sites SciFi.com, ChillerTV.com and SleuthChannel.com. The content also will be available on Hulu, the online video joint venture that […]
From Colin Mann in London Discovery Networks EMEA has premiered a series of short films, commissioned to capture the spirit of the Discovery Channel. The collection – Discover Shorts – will air on the Discovery Channel across Europe, the Middle East and Africa from 1st March. Discovery Shorts vary in length, from 30 to 120 […]
The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) in Korea has approved the acquisition of Hanaro Telecom by SK Telecom. SK won a 1.090 billion KRW bid for the company late last year, which was subject to the approval of government antitrust regulators. Hanaro had been rumoured to be an SK takeover target for the last […]
Tilgin, provider of customer premises equipment (CPE) for triple play, next-generation broadband and IMS-based services, has signed a worldwide sales and marketing co-operation agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks a globally recognised system integrator regarding the sale of pre-integrated Tilgin IPTV set-top boxes to selected customers. Tilgin will be promoted as a preferred supplier of Nokia […]