Following the news in October that France’s leading pay-TV platform Canal Plus was entering into exclusive negotiations with Poland’s ITI and TVN Groups to create a strategic partnership in Poland, ITI has confirmed that Canal Plus is to buy a “significant minority” stake in ITI, the parent company of the owner of 51 per cent […]
Rovi and Mei Ah Digital Technology, one of the companies in Mei Ah Entertainment Group, have formed a collaboration to launch a new Chinese online VoD service branded BOYABO that provides consumers access to premium movies and TV entertainment. The new service includes movie titles available for digital distribution by the Mei Ah Entertainment Group, […]
UK VoD service SeeSaw appears to have closed for good, following an initial planned closure in June. The company’s website simply says: “Thanks for your support but SeeSaw is no longer available.” Broadcast transmission infrastructure specialist Arqiva, which acquired the aborted Project Kangaroo from it founding partners BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, put […]
France’s leading pay-TV platform Canal+, ITI and TVN Groups are entering into exclusive negotiations to create a strategic partnership in Poland. TVN Group, the leading media group in Poland, is also the leading free-to-air TV company in the country. It is also one of the main pay-TV players through ‘n’, a fully owned subsidiary, […]
KIT Digital and Harmonic have announced a strategic partnership that harnesses their complementary product portfolios to offer an end-to-end multiscreen video architecture optimally managed for maximum performance. The two companies are working together to create solutions that enable Tier 1 video providers to efficiently expand existing broadcast and pay TV services with new multi-platform, multi-device […]
South Korea’s LG Electronics has tied up with Dutch giant Philips and Japan’s Sharp to ramp up production of applications for Internet-powered televisions. The three TV vendors will jointly create software development kits, which will be distributed to third-party developers to write TV applications, LG said in a statement. It is the first such collaboration […]
Masstech, tprovider of all-in-one media asset management (MAM) solutions and archive protection software vendor, Quotium Technologies have agreed to a collaboration framework to facilitate the joint marketing of both companies’ product lines and the integration of Masstech’s powerful Cobalt with Quotium’s proactive monitoring software. Masstech and Quotium are both looking to take advantage of this […]
Wireless home networking specialists AirTies says it is growing its set-top box (STB) and wireless product ranges. Besides its existing highly successful 4420 core wireless ‘plug and play’ device for the home, it has expanded its product line to include new relationships with Quantenna Communications to take their all-new chip set capable of up to […]
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is reportedly looking to launch an Arabic financial news channel. Arabian Business says his Kingdom Holdings is in talks with Bloomberg about a joint-venture that would compete directly with Dubai-based CNBC Arabia, a financial news channel that has been on air since 2003. Should the channel get the go-ahead, it would […]
Bertrand Meheut, Chairman of Canal+ Group, and Stéphane Richard, Chairman and CEO of Orange, have announced the finalisation of their proposed strategic partnership, which calls for Canal+ Group’s acquisition of a 33.33 per cent minority interest in Orange Cinema Series. As a result, Orange will hold a 66.66 per cent share of Orange Cinema Series, […]