Scripps Networks is to acquire Travel Channel International Limited (TCI), the UK company that distributes the Travel Channel brand in 20 languages across Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. The company produces and commissions original travel programming for distribution in 91 countries. Scripps Networks Interactive will pay £65 million (€78m) to acquire TCI. […]
The English Premier League is looking at repackaging the sale of its television football rights away from territory by territory making rights pan-European rights available The move is a reaction to the ‘pub landlady’ case where using a foreign service decoder to show EPL games was deemed legal – though there were copyright restrictions in […]
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a tax credit scheme for TV production and animation firms is to be introduced, in a bid to keep creative talent in Britain. Osborne said it was the government’s “determined policy” to keep Wallace and Gromit animators Aardman in Britain. Last month, Aardman bosses admitted they had been considering moving […]
Investment banker Morgan Stanley says that CEO Brian Sullivan and his fellow senior managers at Sky Deutschland are in a “positive mood” about current subscriber trends. Moreover, Sullivan said Sky Deutschland is “quietly confident” of winning access to the all-important Bundesliga football matches. Bidding for the Bundesliga opens in two weeks’ time, on April 2nd, […]
Oprah Winfrey, not for the first time, is discovering that having your name above the station’s door is no guarantee of success. Her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been on air in the US since the start of last year, but losses continue. Winfrey assumed the CEO and Chief Creative Officer role last summer. She […]
Lord David Puttnam, President of the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association (FDA), has stressed the importance of continued support and public investment in UK film distribution during this Olympic year and beyond, to allow UK cinema admissions and box-office to continue to flourish. He also used his keynote speech to the UK film industry to call […]
More than a million viewers watched the climax to Sky’s debut GP on its dedicated Formula 1 channel. However, its overall audience was down 75 per cent on BBC1’s coverage last year. Season opener the Australian Grand Prix had an average audience of 526,000 viewers between 4.30am and 9am UK time on Sunday, with a […]
At the IP&TV World Forum, AirTies Wireless Networks announced today that it has licensed Conax conditional access technology. The first product to launch is the Air 7210 Hybrid Cable Set-top box, a performance optimised, High-definition, dual-tuner. The Air 7210C is suited particularly well to markets where operators want to combine cable television delivery with added-value […]
Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), a VeltiCompany, has formed a global partnership with zeebox, a company specialising in the way viewers interact with TV on the second screen. The partnership with zeebox will enable MIG to be the first to integrate an interactive social payments and voting solution, with its Engage solution, into the free-to-consumer zeebox […]
The euronews application is now available in five services – the English, Spanish, French, German and Italian services – in the Spotlight folder under the Featured and News categories on Google TV. US viewers can access the European international news network on demand simply by using their Internet connection. The euronews app is free-of-charge and […]