The BBC and BSkyB have settled the long-running row over retransmission fees with the corporation no longer having to pay to put its channels on the pay-TV platform, saving £4.5 milliom (€5.3m) a year in licence money. They have also agreed a new long-term carriage deal for BBC services and the iPlayer on Sky’s platform. […]
The Media Institute – a non-profit research foundation specialising in communications policy – has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the US Supreme Court in the case it says could have “disastrous” consequences for the US broadcasting industry. The Institute filed a brief in American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc., arguing that Aereo’s model for […]
Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules in the forthcoming Aereo case, rival Internet TV streaming service FilmOn will still have a viable business model, according to Mike Paxton, Senior Analyst at SNL Kagan MRG. In an Executive Brief – FilmOn: Beyond the Court Cases, an Interesting Business Model – shared with advanced-television.com, Paxton notes […]
BBC Director-General Tony Hall has suggested that there is room for modernisation of the BBC licence fee so that it applies to the consumption of BBC TV programmes, whether live on BBC One or on-demand via BBC iPlayer. In a speech at the Oxford Media Convention, Hall refuted suggestions that the licence fee undermined competition, […]
UK Culture secretary Maria Miller has said Scotland will lose the BBC if it votes for independence in the September referendum. Miller warned that a vote for independence was a vote to leave the institutions of the UK, and that included the BBC. The minister told the Oxford Media Convention that the BBC was “part […]
Internet TV streaming service Aereo has revealed plans to launch its remote antenna/DVR television technology in the Greater Austin area on March 3rd. Greater Austin is Aereo’s fourth market to launch in Texas and includes a 12-county area. In January 2013, Aereo said that it intended to expand to 22 new US cities beyond its […]
A US District Court in Utah has ruled that Internet TV streaming service Aereo violates copyright law and must cease operation in Utah. Judge Dale A. Kimball also ruled that a current lawsuit filed against Aereo Autumn 2013 by local broadcasters, KTVX Channel 4, KUCW Channel 30, KSTU Channel 13 and KUTV Channel 2, will […]
Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced a new Connect TV customer, Motors TV, the pan-European motor sport television channel. The deal will allow Motors TV to join the Freeview EPG, accessible to people with a compatible connected Freeview HD product. Motors TV broadcasts a varied coverage of international motorsport, with exclusive […]
Full year TV viewing figures for 2013 compiled by Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – show that the TV set remains the centre of people’s TV viewing, accounting for 98.5 per cent of total viewing. Non-TV set screens such as tablets and laptops accounted for the remaining 1.5 per […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV is to expand its free-to-air family of channels with the launch of ITVBe, featuring lifestyle and reality programming from the UK and the US. From launch, ITVBe will become the exclusive home of ITV’s award winning series, The Only Way is Essex. The new channel which is aimed at a younger, […]