Plans for Ireland's new digital television service, to be called Saorview, are moving ahead, with RTE appointing a company to test receivers for the new signal. The state broadcaster is continuing with plans for its DTT service, even though the commercial side of the project has yet to be agreed. Saorview is likely to become […]

Spending on online video advertising could be pushed forward by consumers increasing willingness to view video content online, says Guy Phillipson, chief executive at the Internet Advertising Bureau. Phillipson added that he expected video advertising to grow as an online medium, in part because people are “very used to consuming video online” due to the […]

Avail-TVN, the largest digital media services company in North America, has announced an industry-wide, long-term digital media services deal with entertainment channel, VOD and online service, EPIX. The agreement provides EPIX with the technological capability to access over 48 million VOD households via every service provider in North America, providing a seamless on-ramp to launch […]

From Branislav Pekic in Rome Portugal Telecom has proposed to sector regulator Anacom that the DTT spectrum reserved for pay-TV channels is assigned to existing national broadcasters RTP, SIC and TVI to launch HD versions of their channels. The proposal follows Portugal Telecom's request for the revocation of its license to operate a pay-TV DTT […]

SeeSaw is aiming to launch in March, with content from partners including BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and Channel Five. The service, built from the assets of the defunct Project Kangaroo video-on-demand venture, will start an invite-only trial this week. SeeSaw is hoping to build up the number of users for its trial over the course […]

YouTube will make its debut as a movie rental outlet in the US this week to help promote some of the films that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Utah. It is part of a test that YouTube hopes will encourage more studios to rent movies through its site, eventually creating […]

From Branislav Pekic in Rome Digital Terrestrial Television will replace the analogue signal on January 26 in so-called region D5 of Croatia (Istria and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County) where already 70 per cent of the population is prepared for its arrival. The analogue switch-off will involve the national broadcasters, although viewers in these areas will for […]

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to stop cable operators from withholding local sports channels from rivals in the US, potentially giving consumers more choice of pay-TV providers. Federal law requires cable operators to offer access to channels they partially or wholly own to rivals at reasonable rates. But the law includes a loophole that […]

Boxee has confirmed that it will soon offer pay content through its STBs. “We plan to release a Payment Platform this summer where users will be able to make purchases with one click on the remote. The content partners we launch with will offer shows, movies and channels that were previously not available to Boxee […]

Visiware, a worldwide publisher of games for pay television, has confirmed the availability of its interactive TV game services on TELUS Satellite TV, one of Canada's leading telecommunication companies, in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Visiware's game services – including up to 44 daily titles – can be accessed 24/7 via the Game […]