Management at Mango Media subsidiary Kuaile Yangguang Interactive Entertainment Media (HunanTV.com) have revealed that the company has received approval from China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) to develop an Internet TV broadcast and control platform, and officially received China’s fifth Internet TV content service and Internet TV integrated service licences accordingly. Kuaile […]
Comcast reported strong earnings in its first full quarter since purchasing a majority stake in NBC Universal, which helped drive growth through its cable networks and movie studio. Q2 revenue for the US cable giant jumped 51 per cent to $14.3 billion. NBCU’s revenue was 17 per cent higher than it would have been last […]
Deutsche Telekom has reported a big fall in its profits as a result of restructuring costs and poor results from its Greek businesses. Net profit for the three months to the end of June were €348 million, 26.7 per cent down on the same period last year. Restructuring costs came from putting T-Mobile UK into […]
International cable company Liberty Global has reported consolidated revenues of $2.62 billion for the three months ended 30 June 2011. This figure represents an increase of 21 per cent on the $924.1 million recorded in the same period a year ago. Operating income increased from $327.1 million during 2Q10 to $530.8 million during the year-later […]
As it gears up for the ABTA trade show in São Paulo, Brazil, Conax, the global provider of content security solutions for pay-tv operators and digital multi-channel distribution, has revealed strong growth figures in the Latin American pay-tv market. The technology provider displayed 40 per cent growth in 2010 and is anticipating an additional 50 […]
Monaco Telecom is preparing to launch a new service enabling customers to view its IPTV video on demand service on other wireless-enabled devices such as tablet computers. Monaco Telecom will be the first telecoms operator to provide the nCloud, a multimedia server created by specialist IPTV set-top box provider Netgem. Monaco Telecom launched an IPTV […]
It was a question from an analyst that prompted a rare note of indignation from BSkyB’s normally calm and collected CEO Jeremy Darroch. Asked whether BSkyB would continue to monitor the make-up of its board of directors, Darroch said it was quite ludicrous to suggest that News Corp was not a entity to hold a […]
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) has written to at least one ISP requesting a meeting to discuss implementing an “automated processing system” for copyright infringement notices to be distributed to customers. It currently engaged in a high-profile legal battle with ISP iiNet over BitTorrent, which is expected to reach the High Court this […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO is set to launch its first HDTV service in August 2011with an offer of up to ten HDTV channels: Mediapro’s Gol TV, News Corp’s Fox, Sony’s AXN and Sony TV, Viacom’s MTV Live HD, Spain’s national public broadcaster TVE HD, Grupo Planeta’s national private broadcaster Antena 3, Mediaset Espana’s Telecinco […]
Hollywood film studios can claim a significant win in their ongoing fight against online piracy, after the UK High Court ruled that dominant telco and leading ISP BT must block access to an illegal file-sharing website. BT users will no longer be able to download illegally films and TV shows for free from Newzbin2. The […]