CBS and Lionsgate have entered into a 50/50 partnership for the US entertainment cable network TVGN and the website TVGuide.com. The basic cable network, available in more than 80 million homes, will continue to be entertainment-focused, with a specific rebranding and programming strategy to be announced at a later date. The venture will combine CBS’s […]
Media technology services provider Farncombe has published a white paper to help cable operators confront the business and technical challenges they face from emerging OTT services from new entrant video distribution and traditional competition. Sponsored by NAGRA, a provider of security and multiscreen user experience solutions, the white paper argues that cable operators have little […]
India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) says cable MSOs, now beginning to make progress with digitisation of its signals, must also fully embrace the obligatory encryption of signals (via Conditional Access). I&B is setting up a centralised monitoring system to check that MSOs are keeping their word. This is a major step forward in a […]
Wasu Media Group, a cable and new media service provider in Huangzhou province, China, has selected Envivio Muse transcoders on the 4Caster appliance for its cable and multi-screen services. Today, the service supports transcoding of MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) for DVB-C video services delivered to 800,000 subscriber homes in Huangzhou, and will be extended […]
Continuing Liberty Media Chairman John Malone’s recent spree of broadband cable investment, Charter Communications, the fourth-largest US cable MSO, and Liberty Media Corporation have confirmed that Liberty Media has entered into a definitive agreement with investment funds managed by, or affiliated with, Apollo Management, Oaktree Capital Management and Crestview Partners to acquire approximately 26.9 million […]
Research from broadband, media and entertainment industries analysis firm Leichtman Research Group indicates that the thirteen largest multi-channel video providers in the US – representing about 94 per cent of the market – acquired over 170,000 net additional video subscribers in 2012. Annual net multi-channel video additions in 2012 were about 230,000 fewer than in […]
Appear TV, a global provider of next-generation head-ends for broadcast and IP television, has announced that Magyar Telekom, whose major owner is Deutsche Telekom, has selected Appear TV head ends to maximise the efficiency, flexibility and cost-savings generated by centralising control of its cable infrastructure for its T-Home cable offering. The solutions were installed and […]
There could be a major restructuring of cable carriage fees in store. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Verizon is already in discussions with some channel owners about adjusting their fees to more accurately reflect viewing audiences to its FiOS digital service. The argument is that some channels, and the WSJ specifically lists the […]
The increasing number of fibre cable network deployments has spurred demand for fibre optic test equipment (FOTE) globally. fibre optic communication is quickly becoming the future of network and communication, and the optic network will soon be the framework of every industry. As such, testing for insertion loss and bandwidth is vital in order to […]
ONO, Spain’s largest cable company, is performing well despite the economic crisis – reporting a profit of €52 million, up 3.9 per cent in comparison with the previous year. Total revenues amounted to €1.573 billion, up 5.9 per cent, mostly due to the increase in revenues in the businesses market with a growth of 37.3 […]