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Bell mobile TV adds CTV

Bell has announced that its Bell Mobile TV service in Canada now features CTV Mobile – Bell Media’s new simulstream service for superphones, smartphones and tablets. With live access to CTV and CTV Two, CTV Mobile brings Bell Mobile TV customers top-rated content in real-time including primetime hits like Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives.

September 20, 2011

New channels for Swisscom TV

With immediate effect, all Swisscom TV customers are able to access four additional channels: 3+, Collection, Rai Sport 2 and Boing. Additionally subscribers will also benefit from two new HD channels: ORF 1 HD and ORF 2 HD. From September 14th, Swisscom will all be expanding its mobile TV offering with 12 new TV channels, […]

September 8, 2011

Everything Everywhere tries again with mobile TV

Everything Everywhere, the UK mobile joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, has revealed the first in a series of significant changes planned for its mobile TV service over the next 12 months. The changes are designed to improve the mobile TV experience it provides its customers and it predicts a six-fold increase in subscribers over […]

September 7, 2011By Colin Mann

Verizon video launches

Verizon Wireless has debuted Verizon Video, a new version of its video-on-demand application for mobile phones. Verizon Video offers Verizon Wireless customers access to current TV episodes, live streaming of major sporting and news events, and a high-quality video experience, all powered by the nation’s fastest, most advanced 4G network and largest, most reliable 3G […]

August 24, 2011

Pakistan: $4bn broadcasting market

The electronic media has emerged as one of the fastest-growing and most competitive sectors in Pakistan, according to the Chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory (PEMRA). Presenting the watchdog’s report for the year 2010-11 to President Asif Ali Zardari, Dr Abdul Jabbar advised that PEMRA, by the end of the 2010-11 financial year, had […]

August 22, 2011By Colin Mann

Fox wants TV Everywhere

Fox Broadcasting is encouraging pay-TV customers to demand that their providers participate in its “TV Everywhere” service. Fox has stopped providing new episodes at Fox.com and Hulu.com the day after they air, making them available only to subscribers of participating “TV Everywhere” distributors (as well as Hulu Plus) for eight days following their TV premiere. […]

August 16, 2011

Silicon TV tuners value to reach $750m in 2015

The transition from older-style can-type tuners to silicon TV tuners finally began to occur in 2010. Today, the top TV set manufacturers are actually putting silicon tuners directly on their main TV chassis boards and many ODMs are using can-type modules that contain silicon tuners and demodulators. In addition, mobile video services in China, Brazil, […]

August 16, 2011

US mobile TV gears up; adds Conditional Access

Mobile Digital Television is on track to reach two-thirds of US households by early 2012, as dozens of TV broadcast stations are now installing new transmission equipment that will allow live, local TV signals to reach viewers wherever they go in a local market. Based on a new survey of member plans, the Open Mobile […]

August 4, 2011By Colin Mann

US Cellular launches Mobile TV powered By MobiTV

Delivering on the increasing demand for mobile media services, US Cellular has launched US Cellular Mobile TV, powered by MobiTV. US Cellular Mobile TV, a downloadable application, features live TV, VoD programming and the option to download content for offline viewing. Subscribers will have access to top programming from ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, The Disney […]

August 3, 2011

Spain: 5m+ pay-TV subs

Spain’s pay-TV market has surpassed the 5 million-subscription mark mainly as a result of the significant growth of mobile TV. As of the end of March, the number of mobile TV subscribers grew by 28 per cent to 638,340 an amount that is added to 4,394,441 clients to the traditional pay-TV platforms, reaching a total […]

July 27, 2011From David Del Valle in Madrid