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 […]
Fresh research from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has found that just seven per cent of American TV households rely solely on an antenna for their television programming. The findings of the study – US Household Television Usage Update – are consistent with CEA’s 2010 research which found eight per cent of TV households reported […]
UK free-to-air digital satellite television provider Freesat has reported its 21st quarter of consecutive growth, adding 145,000 homes to the service in the last twelve months. The continued growth of the subscription-free service – jointly owned by BBC and ITV – is expected to outpace pay-TV rivals, Sky and Virgin Media, in the same period. […]
Following the completion of the country’s digital switchover, Australian free-to-air television is planning its next technological evolution combining broadcasting and the Internet. Freeview Australia – the industry grouping comprising free-to-air licensees Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Service, Seven Network, Nine Network, Network Ten, Prime Media Group and Southern Cross Broadcasting – is working with the […]