Sky UK will offer more high definition programmes on its service by increasing the range of channels available via its HD service. Over the next couple of months, Sky Sports HD 3, Sky Movies Premiere HD and FX HD will be added to the line-up offering a wealth of new content and a number of […]
Manchester United football club is to roll out a free, desktop news service for fans that will offer video, match results and news in real time. Users will be able to download the tool from the Manchester United site from the end of March, and it will automatically update with the latest news and multimedia […]
Star and GekTV will launch three Mandarin language Star channels on the US-based GekTV IPTV platform on 15 March 2008. The three channels are Star Chinese Channel – an entertainment channel in Taiwan, Channel V Taiwan – a music channel and Star Chinese Movies – dedicated to Hong Kong films. Star, a wholly owned subsidiary […]
The BBC is ready to challenge ITV and BSkyB for the right to broadcast Champions League football. Sports broadcaster Setanta is also expected to bid, but Virgin Media is thought unlikely to participate. Bids are due on March 12 and broadcasters predict that UEFA, European football's governing body and the owner of the rights, will […]
Zon Multimedia SGPS will be allowed to bid to operate pay-TV channels in Portugal’s digital terrestrial television (DTT) tender if it does so as a minority stakeholder in a consortium, according to a director at telecoms regulator Anacom. According to the Anacom director, Zon has been excluded from bidding on its own for the pay-TV […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced an agreement with SKY Italia for the broadcast rights within Italy for the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games. SKY Italia acquired the rights across all broadcast platforms, including free-to-air television, subscription television, internet and mobile phone.
The Russian CDMA-450 operator SkyLink has launched a mobile TV service using content supplied by Sistema Mass Media (SMM). SkyLink confirmed five streaming channels are currently available: 'Drive', 'Hunting and fishing', 'Retro TV', 'Healthy TV' and 'Usadba'. SMM announced plans in June 2007 to invest $200 million to create its mobile TV network. The DVB-H […]
NBC Universal has revealed will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including “The A-Team”, “Buck Rogers” and “Kojak,” on its websites. Beginning this month, the shows will be available on NBC.com and on network-owned niche sites SciFi.com, ChillerTV.com and SleuthChannel.com. The content also will be available on Hulu, the online video joint venture that […]
From Colin Mann in London Discovery Networks EMEA has premiered a series of short films, commissioned to capture the spirit of the Discovery Channel. The collection – Discover Shorts – will air on the Discovery Channel across Europe, the Middle East and Africa from 1st March. Discovery Shorts vary in length, from 30 to 120 […]
ShortsTV is the tenth television channel to be added to Apple's line-up on the UK iTunes Store. The Channel launches with all 10 of the Oscar Nominated Short Films in the Live Action and Animation categories for this years Academy Awards.