The BBC has made a deal for Comcast to carry the BBC World News channel, opening the door to wider distribution for the channel within the US. “We’re a global news organization for a globalised world,” Peter Horrocks, the BBC’s director of global news. The channel also believes that the US can be a crucial […]
The war of words continues between the movie lobby and Internet interests over proposed anti-piracy legislation, with Michael O’Leary, Senior Executive Vice President for Global Policy and External Affairs at the Motion Picture Association of America rounding on Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s comments delivered at the Economic Club of Washington DC. “Today, Google Executive […]
The Board of Trustees of Internet policy, technology standards, and future development leadership source the Internet Society has expressed concern with a number of US legislative proposals that would mandate DNS blocking and filtering by ISPs to protect the interests of copyright holders. While the Internet Society agrees that combating illicit online activity is an […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has found that Bell Mobility gave itself a significant competitive advantage by entering into exclusive agreements for the mobile rights to popular NHL and NFL content. “Canadians shouldn’t be forced to subscribe to a wireless service from a specific company to access their favourite content,” said Konrad von […]
A sports animation company with exclusive rights to the image of José Mourinho, the manager of football club Real Madrid, will float on Aim early next year. Sports Stars Media is looking to raise £1.75 million (€2.06m) on the exchange to fund its first children’s cartoon called Mourinho & the Special Ones where the ex-Chelsea […]
Entone has announced that Valley Telephone Cooperative (VTCI) has selected its FusionTV solution to power the delivery of hybrid TV services. The deployment creates momentum for the industry’s move to a fusion of linear TV and cloud services by broadband service operators. Entone’s FusionTV solution will enable VTCI to offer its IPTV subscribers in the […]
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has terminated a broadcast deal with Nimbus because of failure to pay due fees. Nimbus held TV rights for all of the BCCI international and domestic matches played at home. BCCI officials said the contract was terminated because Nimbus had not paid the 50 per cent advance […]
Canal+ will continue its long-standing role as a UEFA content partner after being awarded the final, so-called ‘first-pick’ media rights package for the 2012–15 UEFA Champions League in France. The news follows the earlier revelation that Canal+ had lost the majority of its broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League football matches to Al Jazeera’s […]
Influential US trade body the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has commended Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Ron Wyden and a group of bipartisan lawmakers for introducing The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act. The CEA suggests this bill addresses the problem of foreign infringing web sites and is a strong alternative to […]
smartclip, a specialist in video advertising, and Accedo, an enabler of Smart TV and IPTV applications, have signed a European-wide partnership agreement for the integration of pre roll video ads into Funspot, the most widely deployed gaming application for Smart TVs. smartclip will start monetising the Funspot games immediately with in-gaming pre-rolls in all major […]