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Discovery premieres show online

Discovery Networks UK will showcase the exclusive premiere of Discovery Channel flagship show 'Chop Shop: London Garage' on its online video service Discovery On Demand, four days ahead of the TV premiere. The Discovery On Demand premiere will be supported by a multi-platform brand campaign running on-air, on-line and on-mobile. The initiative underscores Discovery's move […]

October 5, 2007

Joost launched Off the Fence

ndependent production and distribution company Off the Fence has partnered with Joost, the broadcast-quality Internet television service, to launch two new channels via their online platform – 'Off the Fence Go Wild' and 'Off the Fence Explore'. The channels will air a schedule of wildlife programming and science documentaries.

October 5, 2007

Connecticut fights for statewide IPTV

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has said t that he will ask the Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) to reject a franchise application by AT&T’s Internet television service for Connecticut. “This new application by AT&T seems to accept that they must seek a franchise, but makes a sham of meeting the franchise requirements,” Blumenthal […]

October 4, 2007

Major League Baseball signs with Teletrax

Major League Baseball has signed an agreement with Teletrax to track the use of its game broadcast footage more effectively. It provides a service that digitally watermarks broadcasts, allowing the US sports league to track who is watching what portion of any game, for how long and what they are viewing. It can also detail […]

October 3, 2007

blinkx partners with Celebtv.com

blinkx, the online video search engine, has formed a partnership with CelebTV.com, the real-time entertainment video news channel created for, and distributed exclusively on, digital platforms. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will transcribe and index video content from CelebTV.com.

October 3, 2007

US pay-TV saturation point

As IPTV services emerge, telecom companies face a fairly saturated pay-TV market in the U.S, as 82 per cent of all US households reported having a pay-TV subscription in 2006. According to a recent survey by Gartner, this is forecast to increase to 84 per cent by the end of 2011. While there are a […]

October 3, 2007

Private Media aggressive IPTV rollout

Adult digital content distributor Private Media Group has revealed that during the third quarter it has entered into agreements with nine additional European IPTV operators in the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Portugal and Greece. The platform operators include leading telcos which all offer Triple-Play featuring IPTV VOD. As of September 2007, the Company had agreements […]

October 3, 2007

TIOTI site opens

TIOTI ('Tape it off the Internet'), the media aggregator has opened its one-stop source for TV content – www.tioti.com – to the general public. Following its successful beta-testing of the service with more than 18,000 users, TIOTI has made its search gateway to TV content available to everyone, providing links to a wide range of […]

October 2, 2007

Smart Com deploys Verimatrix for T-2 IPTV

Content security specialists Verimatrix and Smart Com, European IPTV middleware vendor have confirmed the successful deployment of Verimatrix's Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for T-2's IPTV deployment. T-2 is the number one alternative IPTV operator in Slovenia that offers a selection of movies, series and other video content, available for on-demand viewing.

October 2, 2007

MySpace UK Video Content

News Corp owned social networking site MySpace will launch sponsored video channels in the UK next month that will include advertising. MySpace has opted to experiment with placing advertising next to professionally-produced content rather than the user-generated content around which it built up its audience.

October 1, 2007