Premium television company HBO has agreed to invest A$10 million (€8.2m) for a strategic stake Australia’s leading online movie rental company Quickflix. Quickflix recently announced that it had entered into a licensing agreement with HBO for the streaming of TV series and films in Australia. Under the terms of the deal, HBO will invest A$10 […]

Conviva, a video quality optimisation and analytics solution provider, has closed a $15 Million round of funding led by Time Warner Investments, the strategic investing arm of Time Warner. Conviva says it improves over one billion streams a month and provides solutions that guarantee a high quality viewing experience that ultimately results in longer viewing […]

SeaChange International says it took action in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012 resulting in more than $5 million of annualised cost reductions. These cost reductions come principally from headcount reductions related to streamlining operations. SeaChange CEO Raghu Rau commented, “As we realign our resources to focus on delivering on customer commitments, we have […]

Shareholders at Portuguese pay-TV provider ZON Multimedia have approved the lifting of voting rights beyond a current 10 per cent limit. The approval of the measure opens the way for shareholders to raise their stakes in the company, with mobile cellco Sonaecom touted as a potential suitor. Banks Caixa Geral de Depositos and Banco Espirito […]

Government investment in technology and innovation will enable Britain’s world leading digital businesses to benefit from future advances in technology and help them bring new products to the marketplace, UK Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced. The new Connected Digital Economy Catapult centre will be a hub for the best innovations in the digital sector, […]

Financial problems are piling up on the state-owned group RTVE, operator of TV channel La Primera. Following the recent €200 million cut in state subsides approved by the Government to tackle its deficit, the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has decided to temporarily suspend the additional payment of around €50m that telco operators had been ordered […]

Endemol has reached an agreement with a “significant majority” of its lenders, bringing to an end more than a year of talks to restructure its €2.8 billion debt. The TV production company said that it had reached an agreement in principle with more than two-thirds of its lenders to push through a restructuring of its […]

Reports Saturday suggest that Spanish infrastructure company Abertis, having sold down 50 per cent of its Eutelsat holdings, wants to increase its position in Spain’s Hispasat (where Eutelsat also has a large 27.7 per cent stake). Abertis owns 33.39 per cent of Hispasat, and Spanish newspaper Expansión talks of Abertis wanting to start talks with […]

A government report into the future of the UK film industry has called on ITV and Sky to invest more money in British films. The Film Policy Review Panel, led by Lord Chris Smith, the former Culture Secretary, also recommended a new programme to bring film education to every school and a renewed commitment to […]