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SFR adds gaming on-demand

SFR has launched an on-demand gaming service for subscribers to its IPTV service ‘Neufbox TV’. The French telco’s service will initially offer 30 games with players using the remote control or a USB joystick offered by SFR to control the on-screen action.  Subscribers also have the option to try out games for free before purchasing. […]

October 22, 2010

BBC One HD at last

The BBC finally launches BBC One HD  on 3 November across all HD platforms: Freesat, Freeview, Sky and Virgin Media. The new HD channel will simulcast a network

October 21, 2010

Sony launches movie channel

Sony Movie Channel, the first US multi-platform television network from Sony Pictures Television (SPT), has launched on Dish Network, DirecTV and AT&T U-verse TV on linear as well as on authenticated VOD and online platforms. Offering uncut and uninterrupted theatrical releases in high definition, Sony Movie Channel showcases titles from more than 3,500 Sony Pictures […]

October 21, 2010

Research: Changing media consumption trends

SAY Media, a modern media company, has published the results of a research project aimed at better understanding consumer media consumption and advertising effectiveness. In addition to uncovering key behavioural changes, the study strove to better understand the implications for marketers trying to reach this desirable, growing audience. Consumers who’ve shifted the majority of their […]

October 20, 2010

Youku, Disney content deal

Youku, China’s largest video hosting site, has partnered with Disney to begin streaming the studio’s TV shows.  The videos are subtitled in Chinese. The agreement with Disney comes as Chinese video hosting sites are moving away from showing illegally uploaded content. Chinese users continue to upload pirated popular American TV shows and movies to sites […]

October 18, 2010

KidsCo extends reach in Indonesia

KidsCo, the international children’s channel, has confirmed a deal with PT Cipta Skynindo, the Indonesian digital pay TV operator. KidsCo will be available to Indonesian and East Timorese viewers in English as well as Bahasa Indonesian. KidsCo will broadcast shows across PT Cipta Skynindo’s basic package, their most widely distributed service, from November 1st.

October 18, 2010

Sheikh’s cultural bouquet

Sheikh Fahad Alsalem Al Ali Alsabah, the chairman of the media city in Kuwait and nephew of the Emir of Kuwait, is planning to launch a multilingual bouquet of television channels with a very ambitious aim. He wants to promote dialogue, improve the image of the Arab world and also to fight against fanaticism in […]

October 15, 2010From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris

Viewers like web only content

Next New Networks and YouTube, along with Frank N. Magid Associates, have unveiled findings from their joint study of US online video viewership. The study surveyed a broad range of viewers to measure how they engage with Web original content and how they view this content amidst other entertainment options. The research uncovered that viewers […]

October 12, 2010

Canal Plus on Xbox

Microsoft has confirmed an agreement with Canal Plus to deliver live programming to owners of Xbox 360 games consoles in France. French Xbox 360 owners will be able to utilise their console as a decoder for all Canal Plus premium channels, as well as a bouquet of CanalSat thematic channels.  Users will also be able […]

October 11, 2010

Harry Hill web only show

Comedian Harry Hill unveiled a new online-only comedy series, “Harry Hill’s Little Internet Show” co-produced with ChannelFlip Media, the show will launch exclusively across the AOL network on October 15th.  Each of the ten 5-minute bite size‚ episodes are shot in-and-around Harry’s holiday home in Whitstable and will feature all-new material created by Hill, specifically […]

October 11, 2010