One year ago in Euromedia, we reported on the immediate aftermath of the Arab Spring, its affect on broadcasters in the region and the part they had played in what seemed, at the time, the largely positive overthrow of dictators. Even then, the risk of the joy of demonstrators in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and beyond […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has signed channel distribution agreements in Denmark to make MTG’s TV3 and TV3 PULS free-TV channels available on Telenor-owned Canal Digital satellite pay-TV platform in Denmark for the first time. The deal will also see SBS Broadcasting’s Danish free-TV channels in MTG’s Danish pay-TV offerings for […]
Euronews is breaking into the Spanish free-to-air DTT following the agreements with two regional TV stations, Aragón TV (ATV) in Aragon and 7RM in Murcia to partially distribute its signal and content to almost 1 million homes combined. With the deal, the recently-created Euronews Network is also expanding with ATV as a new member, the […]
America continues to favour cable or satellite TV, and research agency Nielsen says viewers are increasingly abandoning free-to-air (FTA) signals. FTA viewing is now only viewed by nine per cent of the population, down from 16 per cent in 2003. However this number is disputed by the influential National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) which states […]
BBC1 and Channel 5 were the only two of the five main UK TV channels to increase their share of the audience in 2012. The London Olympics, the Queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations and the Euro 2012 football tournament combined to boost BBC1’s all-day share of the audience from 20.7 per cent to 21.3 per cent, […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, will launch its fourth free-TV channel in the Czech Republic on February 1st 2013. The new nationwide channel – ‘Prima ZOOM’ – will be focused on a male audience over 35 years of age. The channel complements MTG´s existing free-TV channel portfolio in the Czech Republic, […]
A California federal judge has approved a preliminary injunction against online TV website FilmOn, which temporarily bars the service from retransmitting television content from a group of broadcasters who instigated the action. The ruling followed an earlier decision in which the judge said he would grant the injunction after finding that FilmOn could be infringing […]
Germany’s competition regulator the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) has imposed fines totalling €55 million on broadcasting groups RTL and Pro7Sat1 and against two persons deemed responsible. The companies are accused of collusion in the introduction of encryption of free-to-air digital TV services. The Bundeskartellamt has also secured agreement from the pair to offer SD quality […]
The editor and deputy editor of BBC’s Newsnight are leaving on the publication of the Pollard inquiry into the dropping of a programme on Jimmy Savile. The inquiry led by Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News, identified chaos and confusion in the news operation at Newsnight. Stephen Mitchell, the deputy head of BBC […]
The European Union is backing the free broadcast in Britain of the World Cup and European Championship football. An Advocate-General at the European Court of Justice rejected appeals by FIFA and UEFA against a ruling that the matches should be open to bidding from pay TV companies. The Advocate-General said national authorities had the right […]