Food Network UK has launched a four-hour primetime programming block on Freeview – it will broadcast the network’s premium food entertainment content to more than 22.6 million homes on Channel 49 during the key primetime slot of 18:00 – 22:00. Food Network UK offers a combination of credible cooking, new ideas and high-energy lifestyle entertainment […]
Ed Vaizey, the UK Minister for Culture, Communications and the Creative Industries, has criticised the continued legal action by ISPs BT and TalkTalk in respect of implementing aspects of the Digital Economy Act. Vaizey, in a keynote speech at the Intellect Consumer Electronics Conference in London, noted that in cross-industry discussions his department had facilitated […]
Although soon-to-be-released figures suggest that video consumption has slipped into third place in terms of consumer spend behind cable and satellite subscriptions and ISP subscriptions, Lavinia Carey, Director General of the British Video Association contends that with appropriate actions, the sector’s position can be restored. Participating in the Industry Leadership Debate on ‘Owning a slice […]
Germany’s ProSieben Group has extended its HDTV offering over Austria with 4 HD channels dedicated to the Austrian market. Pro7 is using a newly-leased transponder on SES Astra to carry the channels. The new channels are HD versions of existing standard-definition services: SAT.1 Österreich HD, ProSieben Austria HD, kabel eins austria HD and PULS 4 […]
State broadcasters ZDF and ARD have been awarded the German broadcast rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed. “ARD and ZDF have acquired the broadcast rights across all media platforms, including free-to-air television, subscription television, internet and mobile,” the IOC said in a statement. This was the […]
Universal Networks International (UNI) has confirmed that E! Entertainment Television, the Hollywood entertainment and celebrity lifestyle channel, has launched in the Philippines through a carriage agreement with SKYCABLE, the leading pay TV provider in the country. E!’s content will now be consolidated in one place, initially available to SKYCABLE Gold and Silver digital subscribers. The […]
Computer hacker group Anonymous has posted data online that indicates it is able to breach Apple security. Reports say the breach, revealed via Twitter, gave a link to a public Pastebin page, which contained 27 internal Apple usernames and passwords. Although the data comes from an Apple server believed to be used for online surveys […]
Sky Italia, the Italian pay-television unit of News Corp, has pulled a Mediaset channel from its offering in the latest row between the country’s two largest private broadcasters. Sky Italia said it had pulled the Mediaset Plus channel because Mediaset was not providing the kind of content expected under its contract. Mediaset Plus showed the […]
Hackers took over Fox News Twitter account and declared President Obama dead. The @foxnewspolitics feed stated: “BREAKING NEWS: @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much.” A group or individual, calling themselves The Script Kiddies appeared to claim responsibility for the posts that appeared first thing Monday morning – July 4th.
This past weekend has seen Middle East broadcasting giant MBC add a large cluster of 7 free-to-view HDTV channels to viewers of its Nilesat signals. Viewers have to buy an MPEG4-equipped set-top box from Technosat. Orbit Showtime, a local pay-TV supplier, is also transmitting HDTV, as are some sports broadcasters. In total Nilesat is now […]