YouTube demands Windows app removal
YouTube owner Google has sent Microsoft a cease-and-desist order to try and stop it distributing its new YouTube app for Windows Phone. Google demands that Microsoft “immediately withdraw this application from the Windows Phone Store and disable existing downloads of the application.” Google claims Microsoft’s app violates YouTube’s terms of service by, among other things, preventing ads from showing in…
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Discovery acquires TV11
SBS Discovery Media has agreed a deal to acquire Swedish channel TV11 from the TV4 Group as it continues to expand its footprint across Scandinavia. The channel will join flagship…
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Facebook video ads must be short and on point
Following the news that Facebook will launch video ads into people’s news feeds in July, visual classification company WeSEE conducted a poll to see what users thought of these plans.…
May 17 2013 / Read More »SES Q1 slips after German DSO
SES, one of the world’s largest commercial satellite operators, suffered a decline in earnings in the first quarter after last year’s switch-off of analogue transmissions to Germany. However the company…
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‘A moment’s violence’ sees Ofcom subtitle crackdown
Ofcom is to preparing to crack down on the poor standard of subtitling of it says is common on UK TV by introducing a six-monthly quality check that will name and shame broadcasters into improving their services. Gaffes include asking for a “moment’s violence” during…
May 17 2013 / Read More »ESPN nets US Open tennis rights
The US Tennis Association and ESPN have agreed an 11-year broadcast deal – reported to be worth $770 million – for ESPN to be the exclusive home in North and South America of the US Open from first ball through the women’s and men’s championships…
May 17 2013 / Read More »Prime Instant Video adds NBCUniversal content
Amazon has announced an expanded content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution that will bring a variety of popular programmes to Prime Instant Video. Amazon’s Prime Instant Video offers more than 40,000 movies and TV episodes for Prime members to stream on…
May 17 2013 / Read More »HBO GO launches in Bulgaria
HBO GO, the online VoD service, is now available on blizoo, the largest cable operator in Bulgaria, to clients who have an HBO subscription and a broadband Internet service. Dimitar Noykov, Country Manager of HBO Bulgaria, commented: “We are delighted to announce the launch of…
May 17 2013 / Read More »U-verse unveils new On Demand store front
AT&T is launching a new, media-rich U-verse On Demand storefront, designed to provide a more intuitive and convenient way to discover movies and TV shows. The new U-verse On Demand storefront features: - A new user interface with intuitive navigation. - Colourful poster art to…
May 17 2013 / Read More »Cannes Film Festival chooses Telestream Episode
Telestream, the provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, has announced that its Episode Engine professional video encoding application has been selected for the third year in a row to encode all Web videos for the Festival de Cannes. Episode was chosen for its…
May 17 2013 / Read More »TalkTalk TV adds 150,000 subs
TalkTalk signed up 150,000 new subscribers to its YouView service in the first three months of this year – making it the UK’s fastest-growing new TV service. The leap took the total number of TV customers on the company’s network to more than 230,000 at…
May 16 2013 / Read More »Time Warner eyes Hulu stake
Time Warner Cable is considering taking a stake in US streaming service Hulu, for which owners News Corp and Disney are accepting bids, according to a Bloomberg report. TW Cable would be a fourth owner, alongside NBC Universal, which has a non-controlling interest in the…
May 16 2013 / Read More »iCITY confirms Olympic legacy deal
iCITY – the preferred bidder for the legacy uses of the Press and Broadcast Centres on London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – has signed its deal with the London Legacy Development Corporation for the long-term future of the Centres. This agreement takes total investment on…
May 16 2013 / Read More »Spain: New DTT public tender?
The Spanish government is considering calling a fresh public tender to award the nine DTT licences that were recently revoked following the Supreme Court ruling that the licences were invalid as they were granted by the the previous Administration without a public tender. In the…
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“Let the [Sky] games begin”
BSkyB now faces a more aggressive challenge from BT Sport than at least one analyst had anticipated. BT Sport will…
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The pipes, the pipes are calling
It doesn’t seem that long since owning networks was the very unfashionable, potentially less profitable and, frankly, dead boring end…
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Over 3,000 on-demand services in Europe
The European Audiovisual Observatory has just taken stock of on-demand audiovisual services and has published the data in the MAVISE database – which has now…
May 16 2013 / Read More »Tablet growth fuels rise of four-screen household
Data from Kantar Media reveals that nearly one-quarter of the GB population (23 per cent) has access to four screens at home (TV, computer, smartphone…
May 16 2013 / Read More »RTL Q1 up 8.4%
RTL Group, Europe’s largest commercial broadcaster, continues to see healthy profits despite the plummeting Euro ad market. The group, which is controlled by Germany’s Bertelsmann,…
May 16 2013 / Read More »WheretoWatch legal search website from MPAA
In a move similar to the findanyfilm.com initiative in the UK, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced the launch of www.WheretoWatch.org, a…
May 16 2013 / Read More »CASBAA comments on ‘Decision 20′ pay-TV regulations
CASBAA has commented on Vietnam’s ‘Decision 20′ pay-TV regulations which came into effect today. As a result of confusion over the regulations, one satellite provider…
May 16 2013 / Read More »Multiscreen video via residential gateways a growing trend
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its latest Residential Gateway Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey. “Operators continue to morph their fixed broadband…
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