The Kommersant publishing house unveiled its new TV channel last week, Kommersant TV, even though it has no conventional TV pictures as such. Instead, the channel shows blocks of text with photo illustrations, rotating in importance. The text shows political and financial news, the weather and so on. “Whether or not this is television makes […]
Outdoor Channel and international broadcaster Chello Zone, a subsidiary of Liberty Global’s international media division Chellomedia, have confirmed the launch of Outdoor Channel HD in Portugal. Premiering on triple-play operator ZON Multimédia, the deal marks Outdoor Channel’s debut in Portugal. ZON Multimedia claims a 60 per cent share of the Portuguese pay TV market and […]
In the past 18 months, ESPN has reached more than a dozen new distribution deals with platform partners in Europe for distribution of HD networks, led by ESPN America HD, bringing HD sports to nearly 2 million homes. With new deals for HD distribution in more than a dozen countries, ESPN America HD has been […]
Deutsche Telekom has added two new channels to its IPTV service ‘T-Home Entertain’. Fox International Channels-owned BabyTV will air 24 hours a day, commercial-free, as part of the Entertain, Kids and BigTV packages, whilst Spiegel TV Wissen will be available in standard definition in the documentary and BigTV packages and in HD as part of […]
Sports fans across Europe can stay ahead of the game thanks to Eurosport’s new mobile score centre for iPhone, available in 9 languages. Providing scores, results and goal alerts from live matches across a range of major team and individual sports, Eurosport claims the free app is one of the most comprehensive results apps in […]
John Cassy, BSkyB’s director of 3D, says that there’s far too much pessimism about 3D for TV, especially on the 3D movie side of the business, but Sky remains firmly committed to investing in more 3D content. Cassy was speaking having come direct from London Zoo where Sky’s latest documentary (‘3D Meercats’, a co-production with […]
Spain’s Telefonica, operator of the IPTV service Imagenio with almost 800,000 subscribers, is entering into the production TV business following its agreement with pubcaster RTVE to develop several entertainment and cultural TV programmes. The deal has already borne fruit with the release of the first TV productions: “Entre dos aguas” a documentary about music, and […]
Sixty French net users could have their connection cut for a month after ignoring letters telling them to stop infringing copyright. They are the first to reach the end of the controversial ‘Hadopi’ process France operates to tackle pirates. About 650,000 people have received one warning and a further 44,000 are on their second warning. […]
The BBC has been naming the cuts required for a 20 per cent budget saving over five years – the licence fee has been frozen for that period. No content services are going but BBC 3 and 4 have been reclassified as ‘feeder’ services for BBC1 and 2. As such there will be no need […]
Univision Communications, the Hispanic America media company, and Hulu have announced a multi-year content agreement that will bring hundreds of hours of top-rated Spanish-language novelas, variety shows, comedies, and reality series from the Univision family of networks to Hulu and Hulu Plus. Launching later this year, the offering will include current season primetime programming from […]