CBS’s broadcast network may participate in the Hulu Plus online subscription service eventually, CBS Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves has said. It makes more sense for CBS to join the paid service than the original free, advertising-supported website, Moonves commented at a Goldman Sachs conference in New York
Interpret, an entertainment, media and technology market research firm, has released data from its quarterly New Media Measure study that tracks media behaviours, device ownership, attitudes and product consumption. Behaviour and trending data from its 2010 second-quarter report reveals the preference for streaming over downloading video and the growth of Facebook within the social media […]
KidsCo, the international children’s channel has secured an exclusive distribution agreement with Russian distribution agency, Pleiades Multimedia, to represent the channel across Russia, Moldova, Armenia and Georgia. Pleiades Multimedia will market KidsCo’s content for cable TV distribution, VOD and linear TV on cable and IPTV. The deal follows the channel’s strategic expansion into Central Eastern […]
All in all it has been a good year for content protection. This time last year, the Pirate Party (an off shoot of Pirate Bay) was the ‘talk of the town’ with its’ high-profile stand for piracy and its’ success in Euro elections. This year the party fell well short of the threshold for the […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset is hoping to launch its new international TV channel, Mediaset Italia, to viewers in the US by the end of November or the beginning of December. Mediaset Italia is already available in Canada through TLN but has ambitious plans for the North American market, where it wants to target the 15 […]
The Motion Picture Association of America’s website was temporarily brought down over the weekend by pirates enraged by an escalation in anti-piracy efforts. MPAA.org and the website of AiPlex Software, a company the MPAA hired to target websites where piracy was rampant, were out of action for much of the day. “The MPAA is aware […]
Disney and Nielsen have partnered to launch a free iPad app that can turn the device into a companion screen for content and social media synchronised to a TV programme. The My Generation Sync iPad App will be available a week ahead of the premiere of the new ABC series it will supplement, ‘My Generation’. […]
MTV Spain is pulling out of the pay-TV market and making its debut in on DTT as a free-to-air channel following the deal between Viacom and Spanish media group Vocento. It is the first time MTV Spain is distributed free-to-air as since its launch 10 years ago the channel was only available on pay-TV (satellite, […]
Sky is closing Bravo and Channel One as part of the integration of Living TV Group. It has decided to focus on the Living TV channel portfolio, which will see a 25 per cent boost to its programming budget, and the gameshow and quiz channel Challenge. Up to 50 jobs could be affected. Sky decided […]
Fox International Channels (FIC), News Corporation’s multimedia arm, focused on the production and international distribution of Pay TV channels, contents and digital services for Internet and mobile has announced the appointment of Mirjam Laux as Vice President and Managing Director of Fox Channels Germany. Mirjam Laux joins Fox Channels from ProSiebenSat.1 Group, where she began […]