Netflix is said to be in talks with several US cable operators including Comcast and Suddenlink to make its online video service available as an app on their set-top boxes. A deal would mark the online video service’s first such tie-up with a US cable provider and would come after a similar agreement it recently […]
Viewster has announced a number of fresh content deals to bring to broaden its library as it continues to grow into one of the world’s most popular and content-rich ad-supported VoD services. “We are in a transition from a broad library toward top international series that we are making available free and ad-supported. Our young […]
Hulu is reportedly in talks with Fox TV executive Mike Hopkins about taking over as CEO. Hopkins is president of distribution for Fox Networks Group, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox . Hulu owners, Fox parent News Corp, Disney and NBCUniversal have been looking for a new CEO since the departure of Jason Kilar last […]
John Malone told Liberty Media Corp’s annual investor conference that cable companies should team up to create a rival to Netflix that would deliver programming over the Internet on a national basis. Cable-cos could “solve the problem” of high programming costs by acquiring content for an Internet-based service under one brand that they would sell […]
Marvel Anime has announced the premiere of four new series in the UK on Amazon’s LOVEFiLM streaming service. The deal with Sony Pictures Television means that subscription on-demand service LOVEFiLM will host series featuring popular comic book heroes including vampire hunter “Blade”, Tony Stark’s alter ego “Iron Man”, the fearsome “Wolverine” and mutant superheroes “X-Men”. […]
Andy Mitchell, Director of Strategic Media and Platform Partnerships at Facebook, has confirmed that the company has no plans for a premium service allowing access to and discovery of content. He also said the company had no immediate plans to generate content for its platform. Participating in a MIPCOM seminar on the future of TV […]
Trade event organiser Reed MIDEM is to launch MIP Digital Fronts at MIPTV 2014, creating the world’s first international screenings to showcase and trade original online video programming and web series, which will be presented to an audience of international buyers, producers, distributors, advertisers and strategists from the global TV and digital entertainment ecosystem. The […]
Video-on-demand service Viewster has added a slate of new original programming for its viewers in the US via a content licensing agreement with international distributor FremantleMedia. Viewster’s American audience will now have access to over 110 hours from six different BBC series – including popular and acclaimed shows such as Merlin, That Mitchell and Webb […]
SBS’s dedicated catch-up viewing service, SBS On Demand, is now available free to customers of the Fetch TV IPTV service in Australia. SBS On Demand will be integrated into the Fetch TV main menu for Internode customers. By the end of the month the SBS On Demand service will be available across all Fetch TV […]
Outlining his plans for the future of the BBC, Director General Tony Hall promised it would have a closer relationship with its audience going forward, treating them as “owners” rather than licence fee payers. A “personalised BBC” will allow viewers to rate and discuss programmes, and that “will influence what we commission,” he said. Hall’s […]