Sub-Saharan Africa’s household totals (148 million at end-2011, rising by 20 million over the next six years) are fast approaching similar levels to Western Europe, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. However, the region’s TV household total (38 million at end-2011 – or a quarter of homes) is only equal to the […]
Subscription sports channel ESPN will broadcast the UK’s first ever live, free-to-air Premier League football match this weekend. The clash between Manchester City and Fulham will air at 5:30pm on Saturday 4th February as part of a promotion that will see the channel available for free throughout the weekend. ESPN is broadcasting free from 6am […]
Spanish Formula 1 motor racing fans face the prospect of missing out on grand prix action in 2012 after the rights owner ended its contract with La Sexta. The broadcaster had been covering grand prix racing since the 2009 season, having acquired the rights until 2013 from Mediapro. The deal, however, has fallen through early […]
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) – a partnership between ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC – has unveiled its new Technical and Metadata Standards for File-based programme delivery in the UK. Through the DPP, seven major broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Channel 5, S4C and UKTV), have all agreed the UK’s first common file […]
Linear TV viewing in the UK matched the record level it set in 2010, with commercial TV increasing its share of total viewing to 64 per cent in 2011, according to Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK. The average viewer watched 4 hours, 2 minutes of linear TV a day in […]
News Corp is making a play for the 50 million-strong Hispanic market in the US with plans to launch a free-to-air Spanish-language television network this autumn in partnership with RCN Television Group, the Colombian broadcaster. Branded ‘MundoFox’, it will go up against Univision, the private equity-owned market leader in Spanish language television in the US, […]
Vision IPTV has confirmed the launch of the first dedicated Chinese language channels to use the company’s Internet broadcast playout services, delivering entertainment via FreeviewHD. Through this service, China Central Television (CCTV), the largest TV network in China, is able to use the FreeviewHD electronic programme guide (EPG) to deliver new channels to the Chinese […]
A January 3rd report covered by BBC Monitoring says that recent Chinese clamp downs on entertainment and variety shows enforced by the Chinese media regulator (SARFT) has seen two-thirds of the shows vanish from viewer’s screens. Some 34 satellite channels are affected according to the country’s top broadcasting watchdog. Out have gone talent contents, talk […]
The BBC’s R&D department has summarised work that broadcasters are doing across Europe in Holographic TV. The engineers are also researching 3D holoscopy for the Internet as well as ‘next generation’ 3D applications. A technical ‘White Paper’ from the BBC brings readers up to date in the latest thinking in advanced television applications which also […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has proposed a list of 20 Local TV sites across the UK. These have been selected from the sites where local TV is technically possible and where there is interest in providing a service. They were selected to achieve a range of locations across the UK, and a range of scales […]