Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has joined the criticism of the “blackout” threatened by various websites opposing anti-piracy legislation, describing such actions as “stunts” and “gimmicks”. “Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents […]
Abu Dhabi’s twofour54 production and media facility is to be home for a new Mid East general entertainment channel. Launch date is towards the end of this year. Digital Media company EMM (Elaph Multi-Media) is backing the venture and which promises around 650 hours of new Arabic-language programming. Elaph.com is a well-established Arabic-language on-line news […]
ITV has signed a £90 million (€108m) two-year deal to continue broadcasting the FA Cup and England home games, including home qualifiers for the next World Cup tournament in Brazil. The broadcaster’s current £275 million four-year contract was due to expire at the end of this season. The new deal will run until 2014. ITV […]
FremantleMedia has created a new digital division, FremantleMedia UK Interactive, combining the expertise and knowledge of the former talkbackTHAMES digital team and Screenpop, the group’s innovation and mass participation unit. The division will be headed up by Peter Cassidy, formerly Managing Director of Screenpop. Cassidy will report into Christian Grobel, FremantleMedia UK’s new Director of […]
TCL and Orange signed a European partnership agreement under which the Orange content and services portal will be offered on all TCL smart TVs. Through this partnership, Orange joins with the Chinese manufacturer of LCD TVs, which markets its televisions under the Thomson and TCL brand in Europe, to offer the Orange content and service […]
Sports News Television (SNTV), the joint-venture between Associated Press (AP) and IMG Worldwide, has launched its HD Sports News service. The move to HD gives sports news customers more choice in how they receive content, whether in HD or SD, both in the traditional broadcast market and on digital platforms. This is part of AP’s […]
Visiware has raised 5 million Euros from Crédit Agricole Private Equity and Entrepreneur Venture to strengthen its position as the leader in the PlayAlong market and to develop its Social TV offering. Based in Sèvres, Visiware has for the past 10 years been the world leader in digital television gaming with its Playin’TV channel. It […]
News Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch has issued his most forthright tweet since he activated his Twitter account on January 1st by accusing Internet giant Google of aiding film piracy. “Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts [advertisements] around them,” Murdoch wrote, adding later that film making was “risky as […]
Google has hit back at Rupert Murdoch after he branded the search giant a “piracy leader” stating that it fought pirates and counterfeiters “every day”. Google told the BBC: “Google respects copyright – and we’ve worked hard to help rights holders deal with piracy. Last year we took down five million infringing web pages from […]
The White House has responded to two petitions about legislative approaches to combat online piracy. In their response, Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, US Chief Technology Officer, and Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator for National Security Staff stress that the important […]