NBC Olympics tops the survey, ahead of Yahoo Olympics, AOL Olympics; Beijing2008.cn and New York Times Olympics. Rounding out the top 10 are ESPN Olympics, USA Today Olympics, Olympics.org, BBC Olympics and Sports Illustrated Olympics. The audience to NBC's Olympics video offering – which will include more than 2,000 hours of live coverage during the […]
The service will be available on TV, via a website (http://www.mtv-vodafonesoundbites.com) and on mobile (wap.mtv-vodafonesoundbites.com) as a series of twenty one, three minute shows from early August. The website and mobile service will carry additional footage, as well as editorial and news elements. Vodafone Soundbites will be available in seven languages on MTV in Germany, […]
CCTV.com has been recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the only official internet/mobile broadcaster of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and therefore owns exclusive rights to the broadcast of all audio and video content via online and mobile distribution channels across Mainland China and Macau. CCTV has committed to protect the intellectual property […]
The CC said it is also extending the timetable for the inquiry while it awaits important information on details of the joint venture, which are still being negotiated by the parties. The parties have suggested the information should be available by early September, the CC added, enabling it to publish provisional findings in early November […]
The company affirmed its full-year financial targets after revenue rose at its film, cable and networks segments. Time Warner also took legal and tax steps that make it possible to split its AOL online business and sell it in parts. The New York-based media conglomerate said net income fell to $792 million from $1.07 billion […]
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, China's Internet and broadcast content regulator, has ordered all Web sites to respect CCTV's broadcast rights, online and offline. CCTV, also China's top broadcaster and domestic licensee for the 2008 Olympics, has partnerships to provide online and mobile content to 160 Web sites, in China and the […]
Rocketboom will be integrated with Sony's video site Crackle, as well as other Sony products such as the PS3 games console and direct to Sony Bravia TVs, while retaining existing distribution agreements with websites such as iTunes and TiVo. Sony will handle all Rocketboom's ad sales exclusively in a deal that is thought to include […]
Kamlesh Kalwar, an industry analyst with Frost, said that the Singapore online content market, which is dominated by online gaming, was worth $13.4 million last year. “Online gaming accounts for just under 50 per cent of revenues (in the online content market in Singapore), followed by online videos and online music, in that order,” Kalwar […]
The ruling by the US Court of Appeals is a setback for News Corp., Time Warner, Walt Disney, CBS, and NBC, which sued to prevent the system’s debut. They claimed the service, Remote Storage Digital Video Recorder, threatened their copyrights. The network DVR system allows cable customers who don’t have digital video recorders, such as […]