The Spanish DTT map is to get smaller following the latest Government proposal to reduce by three the existing ten DTT multiplexes within the digital dividend plan to be completed before January 2014. The Administration is now proposing private broadcasters -Tele 5, Antena 3, Cuatro, La Sexta, Net TV and Veo- to give up one […]
Targeted television advertising specialist Simulmedia and DVR pioneer TiVo have expanded their set-top box data partnership deploying datasets better to address what is seen as TV’s growing audience fragmentation problem. Simulmedia will use TiVo’s anonymous, aggregated, second-by-second set-top-box data to expand Simulmedia’s endemic client base beyond tune-in/promotional advertisers and drive cost-effective reach across all advertiser […]
The targeted switch on date for the start of South Africa’s digital terrestrial TV have already slipped, and this latest date was originally set for September. However, this promise seems to have more substance. Once the switch-on occurs viewers in the key urban areas will get immediate access to 17 channels, including SBC’s 1, 2 […]
Telecoms giant Telmex, owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, will not take part in the upcoming Mexican auction of digital terrestrial frequencies. Telmex’s general director (and nephew of Carlos) Hector Slim Seade, said that Telmex’s America Movil business will instead focus on pay-TV. Telmex/America Movil has some 14 million pay-TV subscribers in Latin America, and is […]
Real Madrid TV channel is to make its debut on the FTA DTT in August following the agreement between Real Madrid football team and the Spanish production company Mediapro, shareholder in the commercial TV channel La Sexta. Real Madrid TV will take the place in the DTT line-up of the current Marca TV channel, a […]
The DTT migration to new frequencies to be started in September (and to be completed before January 2014) to allocate the so-called digital dividend will cause interference to the digital signals, according to SES Astra. The Business Director of the Spanish subsidiary of the Luxembourg-based company SES, SES Astra Iberica, Miguel Pingarrón, has warned that […]
Mexico is to auction digital terrestrial frequencies, and part of the package could create bandwidth for two new national networks. Some 93 per cent of the population will get the new signals, spread across 153 cities and towns. The past two years has seen some confusion over the DTT auction plan, which was suspended back […]
France’s Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has carried out a draw to select six new free-to-air channels in HD on one of the two DTT multiplexes allocated for the purpose (R7 and R8). The draw was held in the presence of representatives from the channels The CSA had previously split these channels into two groups […]
Research from IHS Screen Digest suggests that American viewing tastes are shifting away from discs and toward online video, with the information and analytics provider reporting that US households in 2011 decreased their spending on physical media purchases and rentals at a double-digit rate. Average spending on physical video media per US video household owning […]
Mexico’s strategy for licensing channels for its DTT system, already suspended back in January, has now been scrapped. It will be re-instated once economic conditions improve, and fresh judicial rules are set for the auction. Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission says there is no point in re-starting an auction programme until decisions on key issues like […]