French commercial network TF1 says that it may be forced to close down its flagship news channel LCI if it does gain permission to start broadcasting free-to-air. The French market for broadcast news is especially competitive, and LCI is an encrypted channel while many of its direct competitors transmit unencrypted. LCI is appealing to the […]
FTA Television has confirmed its position as the preferred media of Italians, with over 96 per cent of adults stating they have watched free-to-air TV in the previous week, according to a study on media consumption and advertising expenditure prepared by eMarketer, in collaboration with Starcom MediaVest Group Italia. However, pay viewing on satellite and […]
BT Sport is making its magazine and live sport programming available to all UK viewers with Freeview, BT TV, Sky or Virgin TV during October. Viewers will be able to watch BT Sport’s entertainment and chat shows and live sport on BT TV, Freeview channel 57 during the weeks of 7th and 14th October. The […]
Freeview, the UK’s biggest TV provider, has launched a new advertising campaign that highlights the free entertainment service offers. Based on the proposition: ‘Entertainment. It’s even better when it’s free’, the creative equates the wonder of an underwater world seen through the eyes of a young boy, with Freeview’s content. The new 60 second advert […]
The fall in TV ad revenues in Spanish TV was 6.8 per cent to €412.3 million in the second quarter of the year, according to the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT). Public TVs registered the sharpest fall, down 20.3 per cent, to €30.6 million with state subsidies also going down 8.3 per cent to €441.4 million. […]
Portugal’s Regulatory Authority for the Media (ERC) has ruled that RTP Informação and RTP Memória can be added to the line-up of free-to-air channels on the DTT platform. The decision comes in response to a request for clarification on the matter sent to the ERC, in late August, by public broadcaster RTP. For the ERC, […]
Despite Court Orders restraining FilmOn.com from offering the Big Four Networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX) in 70 per cent of the country for free to the public, billionaire founder Alki David has opened another antenna array farm in Tampa, Florida ,bringing up the total number of major cities in the US which FilmOn offers local […]
Following the July award by UK regulator Ofcom to communications infrastructure and media services company Arqiva of the two new HD Digital Terrestrial TV multiplexes in the 600MHz band in July 2013, the company has confirmed that international news and current affairs channel Al Jazeera English HD will be available to over 50 per cent […]
Ofcom is inviting applications for licences to run local TV channels in 11 further locations across the UK. They are: Barnstaple, Basingstoke, Derry/Londonderry, Gloucester, Guildford, Limavady, Luton, Maidstone, Plymouth, Reading and Salisbury. The closing date for applications is January 7th 2014. This new invitation to apply follows the advertisement earlier this year of licences for […]
Platco, the new South African free DTH service, has confirmed the first 15 channels for its OpenView platform. CEO Maxwell Nonge told journalists that more channels will be added, and it seems that 4 extra channels will come from E-tv. The bouquet goes live in mid-October. They are: SABC 1, SABC 2, SABC 3, E-tv […]