Spain’s pay television sector has more and more subscribers who pay less and less. Year on year in 2o10 pay-TV gained 218,830 subscribers, up 5.36 per cent, to 4,296,434 according to the latest report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Pay DTT, with a 127 per cent growth from 153,151 subscribers in 2009 to […]
Swiss-based Transmedia has finalised a deal with IPTV operator kt (formerly Korea Telecom) to launch its iConcerts HDTV channel for the first time in Korea. This marks the first time the iConcerts HDTV broadcast channel will be available to the Korean public following the approval of its broadcast licence by the KCC (Korea Communications Commission) […]
Private Media Group, a global specialist in adult entertainment products, has entered into an expanded agreement with long time IPTV partner, Free, in France. Leveraging Free’s leading distribution platform which includes free-to-air TV channels, PVR, and catch-up services, along with extensive user base, Private will have 100 per cent coverage throughout France with terms that […]
CNBC, the leading business and financial news channel, will be available on Deutsche Telekom’s leading IPTV platform, Entertain from April 1st. CNBC will join the Entertain package, which is available to 1.6 million subscribers with high-speed DSL lines across Germany. The agreement with Deutsche Telekom now means that CNBC reaches approximately 33 million households in […]
According to the MAVISE database of the European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, at the end of 2010 there were approximately 414 HD channels available in the EU, an increase from 274 at the end of 2009. This figure includes both HD specific channels and simulcasts of standard definition channels. […]
Motorola Mobility has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Swedish IPTV software provider Dreampark. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Dreampark’s software portfolio maximises operator flexibility and performance by taking advantage of the powers of open standards, such as HTML and scalable […]
Global IPTV subscription had a record 34.6 per cent growth in 2010 according to figures prepared by Point Topic for the Broadband Forum. 2010 was also a landmark year for broadband subscriptions – following the milestone half billion lines achieved in July 2010, subscriber figures continued to climb steadily and ended the year at 523,066,022 […]
Ahead of this year’s MIPTV in Cannes early April, online TV broadcast platform FilmOn.com is finalising several major deals aimed at consolidating the company’s position as a platform streaming both existing TV stations and brand new channels created specifically for the platform. The online entertainment portal, which offers a service dubbed ‘virtual live cable television’ […]
Verimatrix has announced the successful deployment of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV solution on Etisalat’s advanced IP-based pay-TV service in the United Arab Emirates. As Etisalat upgrades its infrastructure to an advanced FTTH network that will reach millions of homes and businesses in the UAE by 2011, VCAS for IPTV will […]
Netgem has confirmed it will implement its software platform on the Intel Atom processor CE4100, leveraging the power of Intel’s Multi-Application Framework (MAF). Christophe Aulnette, CEO of Netgem said: “Our customers now expect their boxes to do much more than TV: multi-screen, open web browsing, gaming, videoconferencing, app stores… No single application framework can claim […]