Belgian cable operators Telenet and are to appeal the decision by regulator group CRC to regulate the country’s broadcast market. The CRC, which includes regulators the VRM, BIPT, CSA and Medienrat, has submitted that the Belgian analogue and digital TV and broadband Internet markets must make access available to competitors on a wholesale basis. The […]
An Israeli company is proposing a more efficient successor to the DVB transmission system. Novelsat’s engineers have already tested their signals on Eutelsat’s W3A satellite as well as on AsiaSat 5, Amos-3 and an Intelsat craft. Novelsat say they gained an average improvement of 28 per cent over today’s DVB-S2 second-generation transmission standard. The current […]
The phone hacking scandal continues to claim victims; over the weekend former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks was arrested and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigned over links to a former News of the World executive who was arrested last week. James Murdoch will have to wait another week or so before learning […]
Dutch cable operator Ziggo has emerged victorious from its lawsuit against Rovi according to the IE Forum – a platform for lawyers in intellectual property protection. Rovi had accused Ziggo of violating its patent for an electronic programme guide. Ziggo claimed the Rovi patent was not valid and won support from the judge, who rejected […]
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has published a consultation on its plans to introduce local TV services. The framework document outlines the steps the government intends to take by using available secondary order making powers and the funding of up to £40 million secured through the licence fee settlement with the BBC to […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed it is responding to calls from Congress and investigating whether the News of the World hacked into the mobile phones of the relatives of victims of 9/11. It is also being called on to look into the accusations News Corp executives bribed police in the UK as this […]
Rupert and James Murdoch dramatically changed their minds and dropped their resistance to appearing before the Media Select Committee next Tuesday. The Committee had taken the very unusual step of issuing a Parliamentary Summons. Meanwhile, on Friday morning after two weeks of support from the Murdochs, Rebekah Brooks, CEO News International has resigned. She said: “I […]
TorrentFreak has blogged that the Hadopi organisation, after monitoring 18 million Internet users and having to take a break following a data leak (the metering was carried out by a contractor, Trident Media Guard) passed on 900,000 suspect IP addresses. 470,000 received first warnings, 20,000 second warnings and 10 have been passed to a Judge; […]
A BBC overseas channel, BBC Persian TV, has again been jammed by illegal signals from Iran. A BBC statement says the interference started on Tuesday morning on the Eutelsat ‘Hot Bird’ satellite. “The BBC and Eutelsat condemn this deliberate interference,” said a press statement. Eutelsat is also formally complaining to the French representative (ANFR) signatory […]
As MPs prepared to debate a motion calling on News Corp to reconsider its BSkyB bid, it does just that and pre-empts them. Chase Carey, Deputy Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer at News Corp, commented: “We believed that the proposed acquisition of BSkyB by News Corporation would benefit both companies but it has become […]