EchoStar Technologies is withdrawing from the US cable set-top box market and is to cease development of its Aria platform immediately as a result of poor sales, the company told Multichannel News. Instead, the company is to shift resources to support what it describes as it “unique intellectual property and advanced content-delivery technologies”. The company […]
Ofcom has recommended that the UK’s Competition Commission maintain its original stance, which provisionally found that Sky’s control over pay-TV movie rights in was restricting competition between pay-TV providers, leading to higher prices and reduced choice and innovation for subscribers. Ofcom contends that the arrival of video-on-demand services such as Netflix and LOVEFiLM has not […]
Rentrak, the specialist in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising industry, has published a report on the state of VoD. The report, based on an aggregation of data from Rentrak’s OnDemand Essentials service, shows that VoD is at the tipping point of becoming a major ad medium. Free-On-Demand (FoD) content, which are programmes that run […]
US VoD service Hulu has made its first ever TV network-style programming presentation to US advertisers, unveiling original commissions from documentary film-maker Morgan Spurlock, Entourage’s Adrian Grenier and the creator of the popular video game franchise Assassin’s Creed. Hulu, the joint venture whose partners include News Corporation, Disney and NBC Universal, has built its video […]
Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL have suffered a further blow to plans to launch their own Hulu-like platform for watching TV shows soon after they air. The plan to aggregate their content on an ad-supported site was already opposed by regulators, on grounds of market dominance and now a German court has agreed with that assessment. […]
Bruce Rosenblum, president, Warner Bros TV, in a wide-ranging interview with trade mag Broadcasting & Cable at the NAB show in Las Vegas, says the TV industry is in a new golden age, both in terms of the creativity of the shows being produced for broadcast and cable, and in terms of the business generally. […]
On Demand Group (ODG) and Power, the independent TV Producer, have signed a multi-screen deal to provide the latest Power TV movies and mini-series to ODG Subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD) services in Latin America. Under the terms of the deal, consumers of ODG’s operator clients in the territories with SVOD access will be able to watch […]
Quickflix achieved new growth milestones during the last quarter and made significant strides as first-mover in Australia & New Zealand’s emerging IPTV movie and TV streaming sectors. Paying subscribers grew by 14 per cent finishing the quarter at 107,520. Revenue was up 15 per cent and in March exceeded a run rate of A$20 million […]
US television streaming service Hulu will ramp up its spending to create and acquire content to $500 million this year, a 67 per cent increase, Chief Executive Jason Kilar has said. The service has grown to two million subscribers, from 1.5 million subscribers at the start of the year, Kilar told an advertising industry conference. […]
UK independent online entertainment retailer ShopTo.net has acquired VoD streaming service FetchTV. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in May 2012. FetchTV brings SmartBox set-top box technology and the FetchTV streaming and movies on demand expertise. FetchTV boxes are sold by the likes of Tesco, Currys and PC […]