Australian TV network Ten has launched a new and improved website and app – tenplay – as the first phase of its TV everywhere strategy. The tenplay app is available now on Apple iOS and Sony Bravia, and the Android version will be available later this year. tenplay will also be deployed on hybrid broadcast […]
TalkTalk has confirmed the launch of its Essentials TV proposition. Aimed at Freeview customers looking for a little extra TV but who don’t want to pay a lot, it gives viewers access to catch-up TV via a smaller, lower cost YouView set top box, for £7.50 a month. This is a headline price, not a […]
Live TV-streaming service TVCatchup has introduced a catch-up service, for the UK’s four major TV broadcasters. Despite its name, TVCatchup previously only offered live TV streams after a legal challenge from UK broadcasters suspended its streaming-TV recording service. It has now added content listings for previously broadcast shows on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and […]
Sam Blackman, CEO and co-founder of Elemental Technologies, says the trends are aligning for the company’s solutions, with software, the cloud and IP delivery taking over from dedicated hardware chips, on-premise storage and processing, and legacy distribution. “Only Elemental takes advantage of these three trends, with the most powerful, off-the-shelf platforms in the industry,” he […]
US cable TV provider Cox Communications has revealed that its customers can now enjoy an all-access free pass to the best of autumn TV with the opportunity to catch up on past seasons of popular shows plus get exclusive On-Demand sneak peeks, all in the ‘Fall FreeView’ On Demand until September 29th. With more than […]
Telestream, a provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, has announced that French television service provider Canal+ selected its Vantage workflow automation platform running on Lightspeed Servers with Pipeline encoding appliances for deployment of a new VoD catch-up service. The opportunity to expand services at Canal+ arose in 2012 when two free-to-air channels became available […]
The Android version of the BBC’s iPlayer mobile app can now download TV shows for offline viewing – some 12 months after the feature was added to the iOS version of the application. Android iPlayer users can now store shows on their devices for up to 30 days, watching them for seven days after the […]
More than 8 out of 10 Brits (85 per cent) believe that online TV catch-up channels feature too many adverts, with 87 per cent calling for catch-up TV to reduce its level of advertising. A further 67 per cent would like the option of a paid-for premium service that doesn’t include ads, according to research […]
UK on-demand IPTV service YouView is launching a new advertising campaign which will focus on communicating catch up, on demand and record messages to consumers. The new advert, is set to run across all media including TV, print press, radio, digital and social media from Saturday 7 September, will centre on pairs of feet in […]
Analysis of UK TV viewing figures for the first half of 2013 shows how people’s TV diet is developing as on-demand TV viewing becomes a more established part of people’s lives. According to Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, total average daily TV viewing in the UK during January-June 2013 was […]