US Election night gathered some 66.8 million viewers according to ratings agency Nielsen – down 6 per cent on 2008 (which peaked at 71.5 million). The 66.8 million were spread across all the main US networks and cable news channels. Of the main networks NBC won the night with 12.1 million viewers, followed by cable […]
A new Internet television service has launched for young people in the UK and Europe as part of a major €3.3 million project led by the University of East Anglia (UEA). SeaMe.tv has been created by the SeaMedia project and serves the coastal regions of the East, South East and South West of England, Belgium, […]
In a further move to strengthen its position against competing OTT services such as LOVEFiLM and Netflix, Sky has entered a new multi-year licensing agreement with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution for the exclusive television rights in the UK and Ireland to current, upcoming and library feature films from NBCUniversal for its Sky Movies service. All […]
US network broadcaster CBS Corporation and online TV service Hulu have agreed a non-exclusive, multi-year licensing deal to stream programmes from CBS’s extensive television library on the Hulu Plus subscription service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The CBS content will begin to appear on Hulu Plus in January 2013, and over the following […]
Slumping audience figures for Simon Cowell’s The X Factor could cost ITV as much as £10 million (€12.5m) in TV advertising revenue. This Saturday’s episode was down more than 2 million viewers on the same weekend in 2011, and the series as a whole is down by well over 1 million viewers an episode on […]
The Content Map – a website created by UK industry representatives to help teachers, parents and other consumers know which sites are legal – has gone live at www.thecontentmap.com The site is designed to showcase the wealth of legal services available to consumers, across films and TV, ebooks, music, games and sports sectors. These services […]
ESPN has launched its ESPN Hub app to update the existing, Nokia-exclusive app originally launched in January 2012. The multi-sport, regionalised application instantly accessible on Nokia Lumia smartphones is currently available in eight global markets (US, UK, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Chile, Colombia and South Africa) and three languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese), with plans on […]
Chellomedia’s Budapest based operation Chello Central Europe, has licensed more than 150 hours of content from BBC Worldwide for its two movie channels Film Mania and Film Café. Commenting on the deal, Levente Málnay, CEO Chello Central Europe said: “It is a great pleasure to expand the already existing BBC Worldwide content on our children’s […]
Media engagement company Shazam and multi-platform advertising network Adforce.ie have confirmed that the new Volvo V40 commercial will be the first Shazam-enabled TV ad in Ireland. Starting November 5, when viewers use their Shazam App to tag the commercial, they will have an integrated brand experience that includes promotional links and integrated social sharing. The […]
Hard disk drive and storage solutions specialist Seagate Technology has become a member of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) the open, cross-industry consortium of movie studios and technology companies that developed and operate digital content ownership ecosystyem UltraViolet. “Digital distribution beyond DVDs and Blu-ray Discs is not only the way of the future, it […]