France has two months to respond to European Union complaints that free channels awarded to Canal Plus, TF1 and M6 could violate competition rules. The manner in which the channels were granted, to compensate for the switch from analogue to digital television, could violate European Commission rules of transparency and non- discrimination. France’s culture ministry […]
Paid-for television content – whether through cable, satellite or the Internet – is preferred over free-to-air services – even in markets where free programming is more readily available, according to global research from Motorola Mobility. Motorola Mobility’s Global 2010 Media Engagement Barometer – an independent global study of video-consumption habits among 7,500 consumers in 13 […]
Apple and Google will claim a significant part of the German TV business in the next few years, according to a study by Booz & Company. “Until 2015, about 30 per cent of the total revenues in the German TV and video ecosystem will go to competitors from the new media sector,” forecast the experts. […]
Freeview says it has now sold 60 million units in the UK and that Freeview HD is expected to reach 250,000 homes this month. About 420,000 Freeview HD-enabled devices, including both STBs and television sets with the technology built in, have been sold. Freeview estimates that of these, 230,000 are being used to receive the […]
GlobeCast and Shanghai Media Group have reached an agreement to jointly provide a host of production and transmission services to serve the needs of international broadcasters and to establish a video fibre link into and out of China. The goal of the agreement is to combine the best of SMG’s domestic Chinese capabilities with GlobeCast’s […]
Following its incorporation as YouView TV Ltd at the end of last week, Project Canvas, the proposed joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Talk Talk and Arqiva to build a standards based, open Internet-connected TV environment, is being rebranded as YouView, and has launched a new website – www.youview.com – […]
Canadian telco BCE Inc. (Bell) has confirmed plans to acquire 100 per cent of CTV, the Canadian leader in speciality television, digital media, conventional TV and radio broadcasting. Bell says the transaction gives it full ownership of Canada’s best media assets to enhance the growth of Bell’s TV, wireless and online services for years to […]
Mike Darcey, Chief Operating Officer, BSkyB, has suggested that the real challenge facing the broadcasting industry isn’t finding the technical ‘nous’ to develop the products and systems such as those showcased at IBC, but rather how to pay for it all. Participating in a keynote panel on ‘New Routes to Funding Original Content’, Darcey told […]
“I’m basically very positive about Canvas,” Jeremy Hunt, the culture, media and sport secretary, told the The Media Festival Arts. “In terms of what I understand, I think it’s incredibly exciting. It will finally – for many, many people – remove the barriers between lean-forward and lean-back technology. The chaos of the internet – for […]
The BBC is to invest more in R&D for online TV and is appointing specialist in Internet standards to work with Future Media & Technology. The BBC says the move demonstrates its commitment to HTML 5 use in video – it has received criticism that the use of Flash in the iPlayer shows a lack […]