Highwinds, a specialist in content delivery, network and cloud-based IP services, has announced the expansion of its managed services portfolio to include a Licensed CDN (content delivery network) offering for ISPs, telcos and MSOs. It enables last-mile providers to create new CDN-based revenue streams by delivering advanced CDN capabilities to their customers, while alleviating the […]
Italian broadcaster Mediaset has announced that it will appeal against the decision of the EU Court of Justice, which said European countries mustn’t ban decoders for services available anywhere in Europe. Speaking on the sidelines of a conference on the protection of intellectual rights, Mediaset president, Fedele Confalonieri, said they are still examining the ruling, […]
Miramax is sitting on a portfolio of 756 very highly regarded films, ranging from classics like ‘Pulp Fiction’ to ‘Muriel’s Wedding’. The movies are already available on OTT systems such as NetFlix and Hulu, and at this week’s Mipcom the studio talked exclusively to Advanced-Television.com about its plans for the future. Joe Patrick, Miramax’s SVP […]
Sony Movie Channel has launched an authenticated online service, the Sony Movie Channel Everywhere. The service offers a wide variety of movies available online at no additional charge to DirecTV and Dish Network customers. “We continue to see a strong demand for high definition movie content and recognize that our viewers are well-connected,” noted Superna […]
Members of a broad coalition of industry and labour groups have stepped up their campaign to rally support for legislation that would give them new tools to crack down on foreign websites engaged in piracy and counterfeiting by lobbying the US House of Representatives en masse. Some 40 representatives of the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and […]
The future of the US cartoon series The Simpsons is in doubt after 20th Century Fox Television said it could no longer afford to produce the show without its voice actors taking a huge pay cut. US reports say the company wants 45 per cent pay cuts. “We believe this brilliant series can and should […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has launched its documentary pay-TV channels Viasat History and Viasat Nature in Uganda and Tanzania, following the signing of a distribution agreement with digital terrestrial television operator StarTimes. StarTimes will also include the channels in its pay-TV offering in Nigeria. Viasat History and Viasat Nature are […]
The English Premier League has lost its fight before the European Court of Justice to the extent it has ruled there must be a free market in the provision of programme service decoders. The judgement could be costly to those who sell exclusive territorial rights to sports and other events and will be costly and […]
Much of the partnership revolves around original video, which has gained popularity in the online news space. The new video series “Newsmakers”. The live video will stream on Yahoo.com and ABCNews.com. Beyond video, the deal also changes how each brand gathers some of its news. ABC News will now be the main news provider on […]
The UK’s only live boxing channel BoxNation has gone for PayWizard’s pay-TV payment solution. BoxNation is supported by promoter Frank Warren, and launched in September. Currently the channel is available free-to-air to UK viewers, but will encrypt before the end of the year. Subscription fee is £10 (€11.7) a month. BoxNation has agreed a long-term […]