Poland’s largest media group Cyfrowy Polsat has agreed to buy online video service ipla for 150 million zlotys ($48.1 million) from a company owned by Cyfrowy’s controlling shareholder Zygmunt Solorz-Zak, it has confirmed. According to Cyfrowy Polsat’s CEO Dominik Libicki, the acquisition complements the company strategy to provide the widest possible distribution of content using […]
As part of Apple’s San Francisco event for the new iPad, the company announced that Apple TV would get an upgrade. The system will support 1080p movies and TV shows. Navigation has been improved and movies and TV shows will be supported in iCloud so they can be accessed from iPads and iPhones as well. […]
BSkyB’s planned over-the-top, Internet-delivered TV service – scheduled for launch in the first half of 2012 – could see a new pay-per-view and pay-as-you-go approach. Since its launch in analogue DTH days, Sky’s business model has been based on monthly subscriptions on a contract basis, but according to Andrew Griffith, Chief Financial Officer at BSkyB, […]
Synacor has reached an agreement with Cable ONE, a provider of basic cable, digital cable, high-speed Internet and phone services, to offer a new consumer-facing website and TV Everywhere services to Cable ONE’s subscribers in the US. Synacor will power Cable ONE’s new consumer-facing website, giving subscribers access to content, services and news from a […]
As the BBC prepares a big push for its online coverage of this summer’s Olympic games, Ralph Rivera, the BBC’s director of future media, says this year could be pivotal for TV’s next evolution. “Our aspiration is that 2012 will do for digital and connected televisions what the coronation did for TV,” he told the […]
A report from Juniper Research finds that growing user satisfaction with mobile TV on tablets will push average monthly viewing times to 186 minutes per month in 2014. The report finds that as users become more accustomed to viewing content on tablets, and as a wider range of content becomes available on tablets, consumers will […]
Latin American telco América Móvil – owned by billionaire Carlos Slim – is considering starting an online service for movies and television shows in Mexico, where the company is currently banned from using its network to offer TV programming, reports Bloomberg. The company is holding off from starting and over-the-top, Internet-delivered service as it awaits […]
Sky Italia has expanded the range of devices that its Sky Go multiscreen service is available on. Previously only available on iPads and Galaxy Tabs, the service is now accessible on PCs, Macs and iPhones. Sky Go, which offers 25 channels, is free to all Sky Italia HD customers – accounting for 73 per cent […]
As TV networks struggle to find the right balance between digital and traditional access to their content, research from Knowledge Networks, a GfK company, shows that online access wins favour with consumers in ways often overlooked by standard metrics. The study – TV’s Web Connections 2012 – is conducted annually to track the interplay between […]
The digital arm of India’s Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited, Zee New Media, has launched an over the top TV service – Ditto TV – to offer live TV and video on demand. Punit Goenka, MD and CEO, ZEEL, said the OTT category presented a powerhouse of potential and added an exciting new dimension to Zee’s […]