US network CBS says it has found streaming full-length episodes of primetime series is mostly additive for the broadcast networks and does little to threaten TV viewing. According to a report issued by CBS Interactive, less than half of the network’s online audience (46 per cent) primarily view shows online, and most say that the […]

From Branislav Pekic in Rome The quality of the television offer will be the main criteria for the evaluation of bids on the tender that will The quality of the television offer will be the main criteria for the evaluation of bids on the tender that will award the license to run Portugal's fifth national […]

SCEE president David Reeves has confirmed that Sony's highly anticipated Freeview TV add-on PlayTV will launch in the UK on September 10th, and will roll PlayTV turns a Playstation 3 into a fully-functional PVR – a device that allowing users to watch Freeview digital TV through their console and also record programming on the hard […]

Yahoo responded to Ofcom’s ongoing second review of public service broadcasting by rubbishing the regulator’™s vision for online. It offered an alternative model – a public content fund involving advertising and revenue share. It also joined the growing ranks complaining about the BBC’s scale. Yahoo said Ofcom’s description of search as “the starting point for […]

TiVo is to offer thousands of its subscribers the ability to stream YouTube videos onto their television sets through their broadband-enabled TiVo boxes. It’s TiVo’s first deal for streaming online content, though the company has partnerships with 60 Internet sites that provide content to TiVo. Unlike with those relationships, TiVo users won’t be able to […]

Amazon is introducing a new online store of TV shows and movies. Users of Amazon Video on Demand will be able to start streaming any of 40,000 movies and television programmes immediately after ordering them.Amazon has also struck a deal with electronics giant Sony to place its Internet video store on the Sony Bravia line […]

Facebook and ITV.com were the only major websites other than YouTube to significantly increase their share of the UK’s web video market over the past year.Both Facebook and ITV.com launched new video offerings over the year to the end of May, growing their market share from a very low base to create a monthly audience […]

"The challenges to PC-TV Tuner adoption include easy-to-use Cable, TelcoTV, and satellite TV services that provide high quality Video-on-Demand, Internet distributed video content, IPTV services, and mobile broadband, such as 3G, WiFi, and WiMAX," says Gerry Kaufhold, In-Stat analyst. "While some European cable and satellite operators allow the use of digital PC-TV tuners with conditional […]

BT will begin further trials in the next few weeks of a controversial advertising technology that it hopes will give it a slice of the lucrative online advertising market. The group is one of three UK internet service providers which have conducted trials of technology developed by Phorm, an Aim-listed company, which tracks the web-surfing […]

Two of the six new transmitting stations that will eventually extend free coverage of digital-terrestrial television (DTT) to 75 per cent of the Hong Kong population in time for the Beijing Olympics have launched.The two stations extend DTT coverage in the territory by another 25 per cent. The already operational main transmitting station at Temple […]