The record US viewing figures for the recent Super Bowl final between Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos is seen as further evidence that the European TV sector should look forward optimistically for the year ahead. PEPPTV – Platform for European Promotion of TV – an informal grouping of broadcasters’ trade bodies and sales houses, active […]
Although it has suffered recent setbacks with injunctions being granted against the use of its OTT antenna-based TV service, FilmOn.com is upping the stakes with a major technological innovation that it claims radically changes the landscape of television. FilmOn founder and CEO Alki David has brought the fight for the public’s television rights to a […]
The BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are joining forces to establish a new service to make their catch-up TV services – BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4oD – available as standard on all smart TVs. It was originally envisaged that YouView would be used as the future brand and technology for public service broadcasting, eventually […]
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is seeking a delay to the proposed implementation by research firm Nielsen of local television measurement methods that take into account viewing other platforms until the methodology and technology can be fully tested in the marketplace. The new methodology would
The BBC and other broadcasters are planning to cut their investment in the YouView set-top box, leaving BT and TalkTalk as the major shareholders. This is a blow to a platform which was originally created to safeguard the future of FTA television in the UK. YouView has become the fastest growing TV service in the […]
TVfreedom.org, a new coalition of US local broadcasters, community advocates, network television affiliate associations, multicast networks, manufacturers and other independent broadcaster-related organisations has been launched to help protect consumer interests, ensure emergency and weather related programming access, promote the value of broadcast-TV programming, and preserve a fair and free video marketplace. “TVfreedom.org will tell the […]
A year after it was launched at NATPE 2013, Latin American pay-TV anti-piracy lobbying body the Alianza contra Piratería de Televisión Paga (Alianza) has reported a number of successes at the 2014 event in Miami, as well as noting the need to educate against illegal consumption. The Alianza carried out 24 operations against importers and […]
Although connoisseurs of the game will argue that this year’s Super Bowl was far from a classic encounter, the Seattle Seahawks’ dominant performance in Super Bowl XLVIII, defeating the Denver Broncos 43-8, the largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl in 21 years, was watched by an average audience of 111.5 million people, more […]
Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, has published strong Q4 results, adding 31,000 homes and bringing total households served to over 1.8 million. Freesat now reaches over 3.8 million UK viewers. Freesat’s continuing growth demonstrates the clear attraction of premium TV on a subscription-free basis. With a Freesat box, viewers have access to over […]
Internet TV streaming service FilmOn X has submitted a motion to the US Supreme Court requesting that its legal representatives be allowed to file briefs and address the justices in oral arguments in the forthcoming court proceedings brought by a group of broadcasters against rival service Aereo, amid fears that Aereo will use the copyright […]