Strong performances from Walt Disney’s ESPN and the Disney Channel helped drive a 12 per cent increase in the company’s first-quarter net income compared with a year earlier. It reported that revenue for the quarter ended December 31st was essentially flat at $10.8 billion, up 1 per cent from a year earlier. Net income rose […]
Sky Go be available to download from Android Market across a selection of handsets by the end of February. Sky TV customers will be able to access all five Sky Sports channels, ESPN, Sky News and 11 Sky Movies channels via the Sky Go app in line with their subscription on a selection of Android […]
BT and Miramax have announced a licensing agreement that will bring films from the leading independent studio to BT Vision customers in the UK. The agreement gives BT Vision Unlimited subscribers instant access to a range of films from the Miramax collection, which has received 284 Academy Award nominations and won 68 Oscars. BT Vision […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV is to delay the introduction of micropayments for its on-demand ITV Player catch-up service, which it intended to launch in January 2012, and carry out closed trials based on MGT’s PayWizard solution. The move had been anticipated following suggestions of such an initiative by CEO Adam Crozier in mid-2011, allowing the […]
Netflix’s recent launch in the UK “greatly exceeded expectations”, the group said as it reported fourth-quarter profits that beat analyst estimates and boosted its shares by almost 16 per cent. Reed Hastings, chief executive, said the company was back on track, with total Netflix subscribers to its streaming and DVD services rising to 24.4 million, […]
FremantleMedia Enterprises has announced a digital licensing agreement with Netflix to bring a raft of classic comedy and drama titles to Netflix members across the UK and Ireland. Netflix has acquired 115 hours of FME’s extensive programming catalogue including Australian crime series, The Strip; and popular drama, Falcon Beach.
LOVEFiLM has announced its latest deal to bring its streaming technology to LG’s Smart TV series. Designed to work in partnership with LOVEFiLM ‘s recently-launched Instant service – a streaming-only version of its traditional discs-by-post film rental offering, – the deal marks the first time LG Smart TV users have been offered a film and […]
Multi-region digital movie retailer Acetrax is to launch a TVoD (Transactional VoD) movies service across the UK, France, Italy and Germany via the Inview Technology connected TV service this spring. The Acetrax movies App will offer viewers using the Inview platform access to an unrivalled range of blockbuster movies, without being tied in to a […]
Telefónica has signed a deal with Sony Pictures to show all new film releases on its VoD service in Latin America, in addition to a wide selection of catalogue content and TV series. This content (in addition to trailers and advertising material) will be distributed in the Latin American countries where the Telefónica group operates […]
Lions Gate has become the first movie studio to include Facebook rentals in a home entertainment launch of a national feature film in the US this week with its release of ‘Abduction’. Dean Alms, vice-president of marketing at Milyoni, the California-based company that makes social entertainment software for studios said the release of a new […]