A+E Networks UK, a joint venture between A+E Networks and BSkyB, continues to expand its Crime & Investigation Network brand in Poland with a launch on ‘n’, one of the country’s leading DTH platforms. The channel is now available in Poland in more than five million homes across all platforms.
News Corp Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey has suggested that the debate surrounding proposed anti-piracy legislation became twisted as media companies failed to see what he described as the “viral aspect” to the issue. “Clearly this got turned upside down, the whole issue,” Carey said at the ‘Dive Into Media’ conference hosted by website All […]
France 24 is launching a new application for connected television sets. The application will enable users to watch the France 24 news channel live in its three language versions and also tune into its global on-demand programmes. The application will be “multi-screen” (mobile, tablets, etc.). It is part of a wider multimedia strategy that enables […]
The 17th rugby Super League season commences this week with the announcement that Sky will televise matches on Monday nights as well as Fridays throughout the summer. The switch of the second televised game from the previous Saturday slot has been agreed as part of Sky’s new five-year Super League deal, with the broadcasters keen […]
Teletext Holidays has agreed a new partnership with Humax, to offer a holiday search app on all new Humax Freeview HD boxes. The app will allow viewers to find holiday packages by destination and view the best online deals and best sellers. The app can be accessed through the Humax TV Portal, available on the […]
Sky Sports has been awarded four more years of live international and county cricket under a new deal with the ECB. The England & Wales Cricket Board announced a new agreement with Sky for coverage across TV, mobile and online. With the existing deal concluding at the end of 2013, the new deal begins in […]
CNN’s US audience continues to drift away to rivals MSNBC, Fox News and others. However, the table looks very different if you measure online activity. Quoting comScore data for last year, CNN says that it drew more than 73 million unique visitors across all its on-line services last year, and that more than 100 million […]
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 […]
US prosecutors have said that data belonging to Megaupload users and stored by third parties could be deleted as soon as this Thursday. Users have been unable to access data since the file-sharing service was raided. The warning was made in a letter filed by the US Attorney’s Office, the Associated Press news agency reported. […]
Plans by South Africa’s TopTV to add three Playboy channels as the nations’ first adult pay-TV networks have been stymied by the regulator. South Africa’s Independent Communications Authority (ICASA) has ruled against the scheme. ICASA spokesman Jubie Matlou said it was decided that women’s right to dignity outweighed TopTV’s right to freedom of expression, and […]