NBC Universal is no longer selling any advertising for its cable networks through Google’s TV Ads service, ending a two-year partnership. “We’re not currently contributing inventory into the Google marketplace, but we continue to work with Google on multiple projects involving advanced advertising,” NBCU said. The companies originally announced their revenue-sharing agreement in September 2008, […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom is to lose a range of powers as part of a drive across Government to increase radically the transparency and accountability of all public services. The news follows on from proposals set out by the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt in July this year, […]
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. […]
Find Any Film, an on-demand movies search website backed by the UK Film Council, has confirmed its support for new IPTV platform YouView. The site, which enables UK film fans to watch, buy, download and rent movies, sees YouView as the “first major opportunity to be on a mainstream TV platform and reach out directly […]
Canoe Ventures, a joint venture founded by the US’s leading cable operators, in partnership with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), have announced the “CEE MEE” Project. CEE MEE is designed to capture the Connection, Emotion and Experience of interactive television viewers and correlate that with the Measurement, Efficiency and Engagement metrics for advertisers. This […]
ARD, ZDF and five other broadcasters transmit High Definition programmes free-to-air in Germany whereas RTL, SAT1, Pro7, VOX, Kabel1 and SPORT1, which is starting from November 1 st, can only be received with an HD+ compatible satellite receiver. Set-top box specialist STRONG is now launching its fully equipped SRT 7805 satellite receiver. With its built-in […]
A coalition of media organisations including the BBC is urging the government to intervene on Rupert Murdoch’s bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting. The group, an alliance of newspapers, the BBC, C4 and BT, claim in a letter to Vince Cable, the business secretary, that a merger of the UK’s largest newspaper […]
French media regulator the CSA has extended the trial period for pay-DTT broadcaster TV Numéric and transmission provider TDF to trial on-demand services over the DTT network. The extension runs until November 30 to complete tests of the delivery of on-demand services downloaded to set-tops in Rouen.
As of next month, Sony PS3 owners will be able to order a movie using the Lovefilm app, and choose whether to stream it via their games console or continue ordering the DVDs to be delivered. The app will also let users curate their movie and game rental lists. Lovefilm is also rumoured to be […]
The soccer jamming squabble between Qatar’s Al Jazeera Sports and Jordanian broadcasting authorities has already stretched diplomatic relations between the two regions. Comments have bounced back and forth between the two nations, and there seems to be no doubt that the jamming occurred from within Jordanian territory. Now a local newspaper has suggested that […]