The music storage portion of Apple’s new iCloud service won’t be fully available to customers in the UK until 2012. UK users will have to wait before they’re able to store their iTunes in the iCloud, because Apple are still involved in negotiations with record companies regarding publishing rights. A spokesperson for the Performing Rights […]
Cadbury is partnering with ITV for a cross-platform sponsorship of gameshow Minute To Win it. The partnership will include ITV2 branding on Spots v Stripes digital activities and at events, as well as marketing activity for Cadbury across a range of ITV platforms. ITV.com is to host a dedicated Minute To Win It website. Fru […]
Sky has announced plans to significantly increase its support for Britain’s creative industries as it continues to broaden the range of programmes enjoyed by customers. Speaking at an event organised by the leading independent think tank, Reform, Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch said the company intended to increase further its investment in commissioning and producing […]
Broadcasters have complained bitterly for years about understated subscriber numbers, hence their enthusiasm for digital transmission and secure cable distribution. But some parts of the world, including the Middle East, India, Asia and South America, still suffer unashamed signal theft and piracy of content. Bolivia, in South America, is one such problem area where Cotel, […]
Neelie Kroes, EU commissioner for the Digital Agenda, says that Europe’s copyright rules need a major overhaul as the 27-nation European Union’s market for online film and music lags behind others. She told the CISAC World Copyright Summit in Brussels that in terms of creativity, artists should benefit from the success of their creations. “We […]
NBC has retained the US Olympic television rights, securing a four-games deal through 2020 worth nearly $4.4 billion, seeing off rival bids from ESPN and Fox. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded NBCUniversal (NBCU) the broadcast rights in the US for the XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014) in Sochi, Russia, and the Games of […]
Steve Jobs returned from medical leave to reveal iCloud the web-based service to synchronise content users store and share across their Apple devices – but not TV or movies yet. Anyone buying an app, book or music track for one device will see it replicated on the other Apple devices they own. “We are demoting […]
The BBC has launched an online hub, Things To Do, that lets users search for local activities offered by the broadcaster and its partners. The aim is to encourage users to engage more with activities run by the BBC and partners including the National Trust and Wildlife Trust. Activities will extend across a range of […]
US network Fox has made its pitch for the next set of US Olympic television rights, saying it wants to bid on a four-games package through to 2020. Fox sports chairman David Hill led a six-man delegation that made a two-hour presentation to IOC officials in Lausanne, seeking to secure the first games in the […]
Multi-screen digital TV service revenue security specialist Verimatrix has unveiled its latest innovation in user-specific forensic watermarking, StreamMark. The patent-pending solution uses a highly-efficient server-side embedding process to uniquely mark compressed video files during delivery, even if the video files are encrypted. Verimatrix says that mass delivery of uniquely marked content offers a valuable tool […]