A pub landlady in England is a hero to the (non-Murdoch) press when she wins a ‘victory’ in the European courts over whether she’s entitled to buy her Premiere League soccer for public viewing from a foreign supplier. It isn’t actually a win yet (just an opinion from the official court adviser) and, of course, […]
Conax, provider of security solutions for digital content distribution, has entered a contract with Russian Satellite TV operator, Telekarta LLC. Security partner Conax will deliver content protection technology for the Telekarta DTH platform. Key factors in the Conax/Telekarta contract include Conax’ benchmark policy for “freedom of choice” of security-evaluated client devices, combined with no royalty […]
Sky’s business model creates a “virtuous circle” that aids the broadcaster’s ability to innovate, according to COO Mike Darcey. He told the Broadcasting Press Guild that “more content investment is going in. It’s being done in a way that drives subscriber acquisition and retention. That in turn drives revenue forward, which in turn provides more […]
GlobeCast and NETIA at the 2011 NAB Show: International Content Management, Delivery, and Distribution PARIS and NEW YORK — Feb. 4, 2011 — GlobeCast and NETIA will be co-exhibiting once more at the 2011 NAB Show, April 11-14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth SU911. The themes of the booth will be global distribution, […]
Jordan Media City, the nation’s main teleport and with direct links to Cairo-based Nilesat, said that it has been under pressure from the NileSat administration to drop the Al Jazeera satellite news channel from its package of channels that broadcast via Nilesat. BBC Monitoring is reporting that Al Jazeera is accusing NileSat administration of blocking […]
BSkyB confirmed it has bought UK WiFi network The Cloud from its investor, DFJ Esprit, and that it use it “to allow easy access to Sky content on multiple devices in and out of home”, via a new service, Sky Anywhere, that will launch in October. Sky said The Cloud “complements existing broadband and mobile […]
In the few hours since Jeremy Hunt announced his non-decision on referral of the News bid for BSkyB – Hunt (and Number 10) remain desperate to sit on the fence – the war of words that has broken out between News and Ofcom wouldn’t be out of place at a prize fight press conference. Barely […]
Another broadcaster has admitted suffered a major hack of its transmissions. This time it’s Austria’s public broadcaster ORF use of the Cryptoworks encryption system, initially developed by Philips but now owned by Irdeto. Widespread hacking of ORF’s AustriaSat HDTV transmissions was reported at the end of December, and earlier in January on German and Austrian […]
Last year the European Commission approved 20 state aid packages for broadband, authorising more than €1.8 billion in subsidies for the development of these networks, four times as much as in 2009, says Europolitics, a Brussels daily news report. The figure is unveiled in a study published by the Commission on January 20th on state […]
Former US Vice President Al Gore helped celebrate TopTV’s 200,000 subs achievement, a key metric for the new South African pay-TV broadcaster. TopTV is owned by On Digital Media. TopTV launched on May 1 2010 offering more than 60 channels, including BET, Discovery Travel & Living, Fuel TV, Natura, MGM as well as the […]