In advance of fully-audited global viewing figures for the FIFA World Cup on the night of July 13th, TV broadcasters around the world have joined in celebrating an outstanding set of results from the tournament. The group matches had already set new TV records in a number of markets, from Belgium to the US. Sales […]
Research commissioned by NZ On Air – an independent government funding agency whose mission is to champion local content that engages, stimulates, and satisfies intended audiences – confirms the majority of New Zealanders are still consuming traditional broadcast media – linear television and live radio – every day. However music audiences and the young are […]
Internet TV streaming service Aereo, which suspended its operations June 28 following the Supreme Court copyright decision in favour of US broadcasters, has filed a letter with the lower court suggesting that after the Supreme Court’s decision, Aereo should be recognised as a cable system with respect to its method of transmission and licensed as […]
Speaking at the ‘Future of the Licence Fee’ seminar at City University in London, Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC, has outlined plans for the Corporation to adopt a mantra of ‘compete or compare’, including raising the possibility of major changes to BBC in-house production. He also announced a desire to extend competition where it […]
Russia’s OTR public TV network is appealing for more voluntary cash from viewers. “Russian Public TV needs help so that the channel’s broadcasting can continue its existence and we can create new important projects,” the TV channel’s press service told viewers, and reported by BBC Monitoring. It said that the collection of donations to support […]
Freesat, the UK FTA satellite TV platform, is suing Amazon for trade mark infringement over the ‘freetime’ brand for its programme guide. Amazon uses Kindle FreeTime to market the parental controls for its Kindle Fire tablet and its Fire TV media streaming box. Freesat, which is jointly owned by the BBC and ITV, launched its […]
Four in ten (40 per cent) British adults support the current system of funding the BBC, however, just as many oppose it (40 per cent), according to research from ComRes on behalf of public affairs agency Whitehouse Consultants. Of the four potential funding models tested, the one which gained most popular support is abolishing the […]
Alki David, CEO of Internet TV provider FilmOn, has revealed that the platform is to televise content from Voice of America (VOA), the largest international broadcaster of the US government. Under the historic agreement, FilmOn.com will become the first global IPTV provider to carry VOA’s highly acclaimed English language news and features content, which will […]
Research from BroadStream reveals that three quarters of British TV viewers (75 per cent) don’t know that a local channel could be launching near them this year, with a further 15 per cent claiming to have heard of ‘local TV’ but don’t know where these channels are due to launch. BroadStream polled a representative sample […]
Following his customer letter Saturday June 28 in which Chet Kanojia, Aereo founder and CEO said the Internet TV streaming service was to pause its operations “temporarily” as it considered its next steps in the wake of the US Supreme Court decision which found for the broadcasters in their copyright case, he has written a […]