South Africa’s state-backed Sentech transmission company will launch a free-to-air satellite platform on September 30th. Dubbed ‘Freevision’, the service is a rehash of its existing ‘Vivid’ service. The launch will be a few hours ahead of a rival service, OpenViewHD, from e-TV and Platco. Sentech’s scheme is, essentially, a gap-filler service to bridge the period […]
Colors, a top channel in India, is to shift from pay to free TV in the UK, as a direct challenge to existing channels such as Rupert Murdoch’s Star Plus, as well as Sony Max, B4U Movies, Sony TV Asia and others which have also switched to free-to-air in the past few months. Colors is […]
at800, the organisation responsible for ensuring viewers can still watch Freeview when new mobile signals go live, has launched the UK’s first postbox for Tweets – so a Tweet can now reach even those who aren’t on Twitter. People can Tweet a family member or friend using the hashtag #at800postbox. at800 will print the personalised […]
South Africa’s TV choices are more limited recently with the failure of TopTV, which is being sold to the Chinese-backed StarTimes Group. However, there are now two proposed free-to-view satellite services in the offing. The first scheme, Platco, is being managed by Frans Lindeque, who was CTO at TopTV. His project is backed by e-TV, […]
Free Internet television provider FilmOn.com has opened its Seattle antenna array, making it the twelfth FilmOn data centre in the USA offering consumers free access to individual antennas over the Internet, which it says enables it to outperform its rival Aereo in coverage, size and price. FilmOn is legally able to offer its full service […]
QVC Style and QVC Extra launch on Sky, Freesat, and connected TVs, on Freeview on 13th August 2013. QVC Style, which previously broadcast as an interactive channel only available on Sky, offers the best of QVC’s fashion, fashion accessories and fashion jewellery, whilst QVC Extra will showcase the best of QVC’s entire product range. Both […]
Internet TV streaming service FilmOn.com, which licenses content from hundreds of broadcasters and premium content providers worldwide, has unveiled a system that automatically builds branded live TV sites and mobile apps, so that Internet publishers can have free access to its giant content offering that includes NBC, CBS, FOX and ABC in twelve major US […]
Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the ratings on all of the senior unsecured debt of ITV plc to Baa3 from Ba1. “We have upgraded ITV’s rating to Baa3 primarily because the company has continued to successfully increase its total non-net advertising related revenues, by 23% since 2012, as a proportion of its total external revenues, […]
Following an industry-wide consultation earlier this year, Digital UK has published a statement setting out its decisions on proposals for the Freeview HD genre. These are designed to provide clarity around the allocation of channel numbers in anticipation of the future growth of high-definition services on the platform. The decisions focus on numbering of channels […]
Subscription television advertising revenues in Australia increased by 12.5 per cent in the six months to June 30th 2013, according to new data audited by Ernst & Young. A record $237,648,703 was spent advertising goods and services to subscription television audience during the six month period, up by $26 million on the same time last […]