Viacom International and production group Endemol have partnered to launch an entertainment channel with a global brand to target the female market. Viacom Blink! will debut in Poland later this summer on pay-TV platforms Multimedia Polska and N, offering more than a million Polish households a schedule filled with Endemol programmes. Overseen by Viacom International […]
Viasat Broadcasting will broadcast the UEFA Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona live in 3D. The final will take place at London’s Wembley Stadium. 3D coverage of the game will be broadcast in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It starts from kick-off at 20:45 CET on Saturday 28th May. The final will be the […]
Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) and The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena) announced an agreement which will enable Athena to develop Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI’s DPA patents. “As part of our focus on delivering high-quality tamper-resistant security cores to serve the needs of ASIC and FPGA customers, Athena is […]
Portugal has been selected as the first European country for the launch of AXN Black, a new channel dedicated to series and movies. AXN Black will premiere on May 9th, in High Definition, replacing anime channel Animax, in the programming offer of various Portuguese pay-TV platforms (Zon, Meo, Cabovisao, Vodafone, Optimus Clix and Ar Telecom). […]
Global information management solutions provider SDL is buying Netherlands-headquartered Calamares, an internationally recognised cloud-based platform that allows enterprises to centrally compose, enrich, publish and distribute video and other rich-media assets. Calamares supports all media platforms, systems and devices – from the Web and mobile to Internet Protocol television (IPTV) and social media platforms. The gross […]
A coalition of artists in music and film has sued CBS Interactive Inc. and CNET Networks, Inc. for mass-scale copyright infringement in Los Angeles federal court. This lawsuit is based on the defendants’ direct participation in massive copyright infringement on peer-to-peer (‘P2P’) systems, such as LimeWire, that are used to copy and distribute songs, films […]
The International Olympics Committee is meeting in June to decide on who should hold the broadcasting rights for the 2014 Winter Games and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games. 2014’s Winter Games are to be held in Sochi, Russia. Sports Business Daily says the IOC is to meet on June 6-7 at their Lausanne headquarters […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings fears that getting too large will start “an Armageddon” with cable networks. Hastings talked about Netflix’s “niche” philosophy of staying “not too big, not too small” — in a discussion at the Wired Business Conference in New York City. “We’ve consistently said getting into current season TV or newer movies would […]
Formula 1 owners CVC Capital confirmed a ‘friendly approach’ from News Corp (reported on ATV on April 20th) was joined by Italian investment company EXOR, controlled by the Agnelli family – once main owners of Fiat – and where the CEO is John Elkann, chairman of Fiat. Fiat owns Ferrari, F1’s most successful team. It […]
Teachers TV will be back free for anyone to view from May 11th, when producer Ten Alps is relaunches the channel as online service SchoolsWorld. The UK government cut its public funding for the broadcast channel last October, as part of the spending review and Teachers TV stopped broadcasting last week. Ten Alps was the […]