CCTV, China's state broadcaster, is understood to have paid around $9 million for the 2008 coverage in the course of which it has generated around $400 million in advertising revenues. The opening ceremony alone attracted a Chinese audience of 842 million. Timo Lumme, marketing director for the International Olympic Committee, said China's broadcasting costs for […]

Of the tens of millions of Brits now watching digital TV, almost half (48 per cent) in the survey say they now control what they watch and when they watch it using digital video recording (DVR). The biggest reasons for the popularity in digital TV and DVR is to avoid scheduling conflicts but also gives […]

Mediapro, shareholder in the commercial channel La Sexta, is launching GolTV (Goal TV), a pay-TV channel specifically dedicated to football that will be initially distributed via cable and ADSL. The channel will also be on DTT when the Government changes the legislation to allow pay DTT content. The channel will include football matches from the […]

Of the tens of millions of Brits now watching digital TV, almost half (48 per cent) in the survey say they now control what they watch and when they watch it using digital video recording (DVR). The biggest reasons for the popularity in digital TV and DVR is to avoid scheduling conflicts but also gives […]

“We have been watching the price of large HD-ready panels plummet,” Patrick Delany, executive director of sales and product development for Foxtel said. “The prices make them an every-man consumer device. Secondly, the amount of HD content has really exploded. There are major producers of HD content now like BBC, National Geographic and Discovery.” Foxtel […]

Under the agreement NCC will integrate select RSN feeds currently offered to DirecTV subscribers into cable-advertising interconnects in nine major US markets: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. NCC will also assume national-spot-sales representation of DirecTV's RSNs in these markets. Cable operators, NCC and DirecTV have been working together […]

Bushell says only 11 per cent of those customers are at present also buying broadband and telephony from Sky. “There is a substantial opportunity for growth,” she adds. She shrugs off the potential impact of the economic downturn, highlighting how the company's “triple play” offer of TV, telephony and broadband is competitively priced. Sky is […]

The Mori poll for the Guardian suggests that while viewers enjoy the corporation’s programmes – BBC1 is by some distance the most popular channel – a large proportion do not feel the licence fee is good value for money or an appropriate way of funding the BBC. According to the figures, 41 per cent agree […]

Despite hundreds of non-authorised Top Gear clips already being available on YouTube, the move marks the first time BBC Worldwide has a dedicated section on YouTube for a single programme brand, complementing the existing BBC Worldwide YouTube page