Effectively snubbing the high-profile public broadcaster and ISP-backed launch of open IPTV platform YouView, Intellect, the UK’s trade body for the high technology sector, has revealed its preferred way for aligning the UK with HbbTV, the hybrid TV standard emerging dominant in Europe, for consultation with broadcasters. Intellect suggests that in this way, hybrid television […]
Advertising revenue for Telecom Italia Media’s free-to-air TV channels La7 and La7d in the first half of 2012 increased by 16 per cent on the same period in 2011, according to CEO Giovanni Stella. Stella pointed out that these are exceptional results, as ad revenue is down by 18 to 20 per cent at public […]
The BBC has gone for the ‘safe option’ of appointing from within and named George Entwistle as the next Director-General. Entwistle is currently head of Vision (TV services). He will take over from Mark Thompson after the Olympics and will be paid £450,000 a year, a little over half his predecessor’s package. Announcing the appointment, […]
Based on forecasts for 80 countries, the number of digital TV homes will double between 2011 and 2017 to 1.323 billion, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Household Forecasts report estimates that global digital penetration will climb from 48.6 per cent at end-2011 to 86.7 per cent by […]
Richard Lindsay-Davies, Director General, of the UK’s Digital TV Group (DTG) the not-for-profit trade body formed to ensure the successful delivery and evolution of digital TV and associated technologies, has confirmed that the organisation will continue to safeguard the consumer experience of digital terrestrial television and connected TV. Addressing delegates at the Westminster eForum seminar […]
Ilse Howling, Managing Director of UK digital terrestrial TV platform Freeview, has suggested that the future of the service is at risk should unfavourable decisions be made in terms of the reuse of UHF spectrum. Advising delegates at the Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar on ‘The future of free-to-air TV’ that the platform had reached 2.6 […]
Real Madrid TV channel is to make its debut on the FTA DTT in August following the agreement between Real Madrid football team and the Spanish production company Mediapro, shareholder in the commercial TV channel La Sexta. Real Madrid TV will take the place in the DTT line-up of the current Marca TV channel, a […]
France’s Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has carried out a draw to select six new free-to-air channels in HD on one of the two DTT multiplexes allocated for the purpose (R7 and R8). The draw was held in the presence of representatives from the channels The CSA had previously split these channels into two groups […]
The Arab League has asked Arabsat and Nilesat to remove the various Syrian TV channels they are carrying. The request was made on June 2 at an extraordinary meeting of the League’s foreign ministers in Qatar. Syria’s National media Council immediately called the decision as a “flagrant interference in Syrian internal affairs, and unprecedented violation […]
The US’s Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has confirmed the approval of the ATSC NRT (Non-Real-Time) Content Delivery standard, a backwards-compatible enhancement to digital TV broadcasting that provides a framework for new capability for feature-rich receivers, including ‘on demand’ broadcast TV channels, more detailed programme information for the delivery of a broad range of exciting […]