In a five-year deal with Showtime Arabia Globecast is to provide content management and delivery services for 13 of its global channels, with services provided ranging from multiplexing, uplink, and aggregation to playout from GlobeCast's central London Technical Operations Centre. Dubai-based Showtime Arabia, the leading Pay TV network in the Middle East and North Africa, […]
The credit crisis has hit the online and media industries as research shows that Internet advertising is facing a slowdown after five years of steady growth. Budget cuts and excess inventory are expected to push the market for online display advertising into decline in the third quarter according to research by Enders Analysis. Growth rates […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Ministry of Industry is studying the use of satellites to extend DTT to all the Spanish population and complete the digital migration as planned in April 2010. Geographical problems and signal interference from illegal TV channels are the main reasons why the Government and the Regional Administrations are looking […]
BSkyB is preparing to launch an ad campaign claiming it is the only company to offer truly unlimited broadband usage. The company is preparing the campaign after deciding to remove its fair usage policy, which caps heavy downloaders, from its top-tier Sky Broadband Max product.It also said that because it does not ';traffic shape' – […]
Orange is rumoured to be building its IPTV service around on-demand films when it eventually launches a home TV service to take on Sky, Virgin, Freeview and BT Vision. Its ';TV in the Home' service is due to launch before the end of he year – some two years behind schedule.Nationwide trials for the TV […]
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has labelled YouTube a “parasite” that lives off the TV shows and content created from the broadcaster’s £1 billion (E1.256bn) But Grade said he did not consider the rise of technology companies such as Google, which owns YouTube, to be a threat to ITV. “The day that Google or Joost […]
BT Vision is to keep its children's channels ad free after its research reveals a majority of parents want ads banned from children's TV programming
Turner Broadcasting has become the first broadcaster to strike a deal with MiCard to create an interactive loyalty card scheme for lads channel Nuts TV, MiCard is a viewer relationship management (VRM) scheme with the infrastructure to create a Nuts TV branded loyalty environment called "Nuts Loyalty". This is the first time that a third […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) found that 27 per cent of TV households in the United States have at least one Digital Video DVR owners are very happy with the service – 87 per cent would recommend their DVR service to a friend, and 81 per cent rate their DVR 8-10 on a […]
From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Rich media specialist Akamai Technologies has revealed that trend research conducted with attendees of this year's IBC2008 shows that 82 per Rich media specialist Akamai Technologies has revealed that trend research conducted with attendees of this year's IBC2008 shows that 82 per cent of European broadcast organisations have plans to […]