The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has become the latest trade body to show its support for Internet TV streaming service Aereo in its pending case before the US Supreme Court by filing an amicus (friend of court) brief in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engine Advocacy and Public Knowledge. Gary Shapiro, president and CEO […]
Consumer electronics specialist Vestel and UK subscription-free TV service Freesat, have announced a strategic partnership to provide Freesat’s Freetime service via satellite on a range of Vestel’s new smart TVs and set-top boxes. The third largest TV manufacturer in the world, Vestel makes TVs for a variety of major Japanese and European brands as well […]
CBS Reality, part of the CBS Chello Zone UK Partnership Channels, announced is expanding its reach by launching on the UK’s biggest free-to-air digital television provider, Freeview. CBS Reality will become available to over 9.5 million Freeview households on channel 66 and will air 100 per cent reality programming. Tanya Gugenheim, Chief of Business Development, […]
HD is gaining momentum in Spain with 7.8 million homes out of the total 16.8 million TV households enjoying HD transmissions, a growth of 8.7 per cent, according to SES Astra. Most of HD broadcasts are received through DTT, with 5.83 million homes, up 6.4 per cent, and an offer of 6 HD channels. HD […]
In a report published on the last day (March 31) that the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has funding responsibility for the World Service, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee says that it has “clear differences” with the BBC on new arrangements for governance of the World Service. The Committee regrets that the World […]
London’s new City TV channel London Live officially starts broadcasting today [March 31st]. Backed by Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Independent and Evening Standard, London Live will air 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the aim of providing a metropolitan TV rival to the coverage of the capital offered by the BBC, […]
Freesat, the subscription free TV service, has announced the channels and programmes that have been shortlisted for the Freesat Free TV Awards 2014. Freesat offers over 200 TV, radio and interactive channels and with more entries than ever before, the 2014 Awards sees 50 shortlisted entries competing across ten categories, which includes one new category […]
David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery Communications, has said that the broadcaster’s pending acquisition of a controlling interest in pan-European sports channel Eurosport has given it the opportunity to create a bigger and better service, and admitted that it will consider acquiring premium sports rights. Speaking at the FT Digital Media Conference in London, […]
The BBC and other broadcast partners are set to drop their annual contribution to the YouView set top box venture by 85 per cent to around £750,000, (€883,000) leaving BT and TalkTalk to plug the funding gap. ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the BBC have been concerned that a platform originally created to give […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset returned to net profit of €8.9 million in 2013, compared with a loss of €282.1 million the previous year, as a result of cost cutting measures. Consolidated net revenue was €3.4 billion (€3.7 billion in 2012), with positive EBIT of €246.3 million, compared to a negative €35.4 million in 2012. Earnings […]