ITV has said TV ad revenues could be up by as much as 17 per cent in June, thanks to an advertising surge from campaigns around the Queen’s jubilee and the Euro 2012 football tournament. ITV has reported a 1 per cent fall in TV ad revenues in the first quarter but expects to see […]
Nearly two million homes face disruption to their digital TV signal because of interference from new mobile services, with fears that a government help scheme to combat the problem will fall short. Up to 10,000 homes will no longer be able to receive Freeview at all and will have to get cable or satellite TV […]
Mediaset Spain, owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, has started the HD transmissions of Cuatro, adding Cuatro HD to the existing HD nationwide offer of terrestrial channels in Spain: TVE HD, Telecinco HD, Antena 3 HD and La Sexta HD. Meanwhile Antena 3 TV is intensifying its multimedia offer with the launch of Nubeox, a […]
3D TV broadcaster High TV is preparing a digital-terrestrial 3D channel for Italy, CEO Erik Klein has confirmed. Klein, said the service would be launched with a local partner and would be delivered using the DVB-T2 standard, which Italy plans to migrate to in 2015. He claims it would be first localised 3D TV channel […]
The European Commission has launched an investigation into the Spanish DTT migration plan over a possible violation of the European rules by granting financial aid to broadcasters to simultaneously maintain their analogue and digital broadcasts until the digital switch-off completed in April 2010. The EC will probe into whether the aid is “necessary and proportionate” […]
The Italian government has confirmed the adoption of the DVB-T2 standard for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) reception equipment, from January 1st 2015. Both stand-alone and integrated decoders will have to be compatible with the DVB-T2 standard, and from July 1st 2015 will become the only ones that can be sold on the Italian market. The […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined 12 other international broadcasting bodies in founding the landmark Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) initiative in at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. FOBTV stresses the unique attributes of terrestrial broadcasting as a flexible and efficient means of wireless media delivery. Its participants want to facilitate the evolution […]
French broadcasting authority CSA has given its permission to Canal Plus to stop broadcasting the TPS Star channel on DTT. The channel was already withdrawn from ADSL, cable and satellite on April 4th, and has fewer than 10,000 DTT subscribers. CSA’s Francoise Laborde said Canal Plus has prepared a satisfactory alternative for TPS Star DTT […]
In advance of the London 2012 Olympics, UK DTT platform Freeview has unveiled new consumer research which it suggests contain important reminders for the television industry, with the prospect of the Games representing a watershed for technologies such as 3DTV and Mobile TV. The research of 2,000 people indicates that what consumers want most are […]
The new auction to reallocate the TV frequencies from the so-called ‘beauty contest’ will take place within three months, according to the amendment to the Tax Decree submitted by the Italian Government on April 16th. The auction will be prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development, on the basis of procedures established by the telecommunications […]