Blockbuster has unveiled plans to feature the Blockbuster OnDemand movie download service in select Motorola phones, giving Motorola access to the OnDemand service and furthering Blockbuster’s digital strategy by providing its library of digital entertainment to mobile devices for the first time. Through the agreement some Motorola phones will feature an exclusive Blockbuster OnDemand application, […]
News Corp has unveiled details of a shake-up of its Hong Kong-based Star television group as James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive for Europe and Asia, looks to cut costs and consolidate overlapping businesses in the region. About 150-200 jobs at Star are expected to go in the Hong Kong office over the next 12 […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The approval of pay DTT services has stoked up the football TV war between La Sexta, and Digital Plus. Mediapro has announced that its football TV channel Gol TV – free until August 31- will offer three Spanish League Football matches every weekend for E14.90, compared with Sogecable's Digital […]
Microsoft Video Player has had almost 170,000 views of in the first fortnight since it launched in the UK, says the Guardian. Microspft launched a pilot of the MSN Video Player on 3 August after the banning of Project Kangaroo by competition regulators in February. The first figures on usage show that after 11 full […]
BBC Worldwide is rebranding its BBC Prime channel to BBC Entertainment later this year. From November, the general entertainment channel will be renamed BBC Entertainment across Europe and the Middle East. Dean Possenniskie, general manager and senior vice-president EMEA BBC Worldwide Channels said the move would help to give the brand consistency across its key […]
The Sundance Channel has unveiled a video-on-demand service offering documentaries and international films endorsed by Sundance festival founder Robert Redford and often available the same day the movies hit theatres. Sundance Selects will debut with Spike Lee’s new documentary, “Passing Strange: The Movie.” The service will be available on cable TV systems owned by three […]
Television advertising still has the greatest impact on consumers according to a survey published by Deloitte/YouGov on behalf of the Edinburgh International Television Festival. Of the 2,123 UK viewers polled, 64 per cent of respondents ranked television commercials as the advertising format with the most impact. Television advertising had the most impact on young viewers, […]
BskyB has written to the BBC Trust expressing "serious concerns" about its handling of Project Canvas. The Trust's conduct of a consultation process on Canvas "will only serve to undermine further industry confidence in its ability and inclination to act as a genuinely independent regulator of the BBC", Sky said. Since February, the Trust has […]
Top US media companies and marketers have created a consortium to challenge the dominant force in TV audience measurement. Nielsen currently controls US audience measurement through the polling of 18,000 homes, where viewer habits are measured by clicks of a special remote control. Media participants in the consortium – including NBC Universal, Time Warner, News […]
Sweden based DTT platform Boxer is under pressure in the highly competitive Scandinavian pay-TV market. In Sweden and Denmark Boxer netted 673,000 subscribers as of June 30, 2009. A year ago in the Sweden alone the figure was 701,000. In the last year Boxer has handed back its licence to operate the DTT platform in […]