The BBC is abandoning its £98 million+ (€115m) digital production system, as new BBC Director General Tony Hall said it had “wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers’ money”. The Digital Media Initiative (DMI), launched in 2008, was suspended after problems came to light late last year. “I have serious concerns about how we managed this project,” said Hall. [...]
Internet TV streaming service Aereokiller is the subject of a further action claiming copyright infringement, with ABC, NBC and Fox filing a lawsuit in the Federal District Court in Washington DC. Allbritton, which owns ABC’s TV station there, also is a plaintiff in the suit. The complaint is similar to one filed in Los Angeles in August by ABC, NBC [...]
Following on from the ZEEL improved profits picture on May 23rd comes Subash Chandra’s other major investment, Dish TV, which also announced its results. The numbers show that Dish has halved its losses, and added a net 200,000 subs this past quarter taking the total DTH subscribers to 10.7 million. Dish dominates India’s DTH market with a 27 per cent [...]
In less than 4 weeks from now a mini-constellation of four satellites will lift off from French Guiana . The project is called O3b (standing for the “other 3 billion) and is designed to provide connection services to these other 3 billion of the planet’s population totally without broadband or without an adequate broadband service. The constellation will provide connectivity [...]
Mumbai-based Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (ZEEL) reported spectacular revenue growth, and profits, for its FY 2013 results. Net profits grew 21.6 per cent, helped by a claimed 670 million viewers globally to ZEEL’s output spread over 32 channels some of which are available in 169 countries. ZEEL chairman Subhash Chandra said that FY 2012 was a defining year for India’s [...]
RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of comprehensive digital content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industry, has announced a long term agreement to enable Word Network, the largest African-American religious network in the US, to reach millions of viewers in Australia, New Zealand and the Arab world. The broadcast solution utilises RRsat’s KU-band platforms [...]
The BBC says it should start charging Sky for carrying its channels if it doesn’t drop retransmisson fees. Sky charges the BBC, and other public service broadcasters ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, to carry channels on its pay-TV platform. The BBC pays £5 million (€5.9m) a year, with the four others footing a combined £10 million bill. The issue [...]
Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has published the final decision on the evolution of the DTT network, with the goal of improving the quality of service. The decision implements a proposal that was submitted to public consultation in March this year. The regulator thus confirms a change of the DTT network configuration, which will become multifrequency, consisting of small single [...]
Last week SES revealed its latest set of trading numbers and while the company stressed to the market that its underlying trade was doing well, and was expected to grow by 4.5 per cent during the rest of this year, two sets of comments were taken by the market as being of key importance. Item Number 1 was that SES [...]
Internet TV streaming services Aereo and FilmOn have reached a settlement drawing to a close three lawsuits between the parties. In 2012, Barry Diller — a major investor in Aereo — sued FilmOn founder Alki David for creating a site called BarryDriller.com. In February 2013, David responded by suing Aereo for trademark infringement after he bought the naming rights to [...]
