From David Del Valle in Madrid The dispute over football TV rights between Sogecable and Mediapro has led the largest pay-TV group to lose 10,000 subscribers in the third quarter of the year. Nonetheless this was a net of 40,000 more than a year ago reaching a total of 2.046 million. The company is also […]
Sky Television and emuse absolutely have launched of the first Impulse Response Interactive Television advertisement in New Zealand for Mitsubishi Motors. Viewers who see the Mitsubishi Lancer advertisement will be invited to press Red on the SKY remote to request more information on the car. They simply follow the prompts on screen to select their […]
Industry body the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has applauded a call by regional political leaders for Governments to “effectively address” the issue of satellite and cable TV signal theft. “The new priority given by the APEC ministers to this problem is great news,” said Marcel Fenez, the Chairman of CASBAA. “With […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The sales of DTT boxes and integrated DTT TV sets are accelerating in Spain. More than 371,000 DTT devices were sold in July, of which more than 170,000 were integrated DTT TV sets, representing 45.8 per cent of the total. Currently, 19.4 per cent of Spanish homes are already […]
A dispute has broken out between UK television networks and their and Ofcom over the public service remit of channels such as ITV1 and Channel 4. Ed Richards, chief executive of the media and communications regulator, signalled renewed pressure to finalise the remit of channels such as ITV1 and Channel 4, saying that the public […]
Digital UK is launching a national information campaign on September 19 to promote the digital TV switchover, which starts in Whitehaven, Cumbria on October 17, before rolling out across the entire country region-by-region over the next few years, finishing in 2012. The £8m (E11.4m) campaign is the latest phase of Digital UK's national information programme. […]
Telia's digital TV service has registered its 200,000th customer – with the total number of customers having doubled since May 2007.
Video search engine blinkx has partnered with Utarget, the UK online video advertising network, to place video advertising around its video content for UK audiences. Utarget will focus on monetising blinkx’s video inventory including ITN News and ITN Celebrity.
US broadcasters promised to air more than $327 million (E231m) worth of television spots as part of a campaign to alert consumers about the approaching switch-over to digital television. The major television networks, as well as 95 station-owning broadcast companies, pledged to run the ads as part of a $697 million campaign designed to keep […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Spanish police has disbanded a network of pay-TV hackers by arresting 27 people across the country who would have defrauded the pay-TV companies of E10 million. Amonsgt the detainees there are 10 distributors of keys and codes through the Internet, nine sellers of manipulated set-top-boxes and eight responsible […]