Liberty Global reported fourth-quarter revenues up 19 per cent from a year earlier to $3 billion, helped by solid growth in its digital TV and broadband customer bases. Revenues rose 7 per cent and operating profit rose to $469 million from $225 million a year earlier, and the net result improved to a profit of […]
Orange TV subscribers grew by 53 per cent to a 3.22 million total in 2009 and by 45 per cent in France to 2.76 million, where it is available via IPTV and satellite. In France there were 8.5 million VOD purchases in 209, a year-on-year increase of 67 per cent.
Pace Networks' MultiDweller distribution platform has been deployed in the UK for the first time, opening up access to digital services for hard-to-reach residents in multi-dwelling apartments. Initially installed in apartment blocks in South Yorkshire as part of a joint project with not-for-profit organisation, The Advanced Digital Institute (ADI), and broadband provider, Thales UK, MultiDweller […]
New Yorkers who want to watch online videos or family photos on their TVs will soon be able to do so on their own personal TV channel if they are Cablevision subscribers. Cablevision, which serves 3 million homes in the New York area, will start a trial service in June for customers who buy both […]
YouTube owner Google says an Italian court's sentencing of three of its execs to suspended jail terms is “astonishing” and “outrageous”. The three, Google's chief legal officer, former CFO, and a senior product marketing manager, have been given suspended prison sentences. The case concerned a video that showed a schoolchild being bullied for having Down's […]
US telco Qwest Communications has invested $10 million in start-up ZillionTV in return for exclusive rights to offer the IP-delivered video-on-demand service in the telco's footprint, according to legal documents. Unlike fellow telcos Verizon and AT&T, Qwest is unable to cross-subsidise an over the top or IPTV build-out with wireless revenues. It is also likely […]
More than one quarter of all TVs purchased by US consumers in January were linked to the Internet, according to a survey conducted by iSuppli. Among US consumers that purchased new televisions in January, 27.5 per cent indicated their sets were connected to the Internet, either though the internal capabilities of their TVs, or via […]
Irdeto has announced its full compatibility with Abertis Telecom's TDT Premium content protection solution. Irdeto and Abertis Telecom, one of the leading telco infrastructure and services operators in Europe, have worked to validate the Irdeto Conditional Access System (CAS) integration into Abertis Telecom's open digital terrestrial TV TDT platform. This milestone will give Spanish TV […]
China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has called a halt to IPTV services provided by Guangxi Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom. SARFT said that the Guangxi Telecom launched IPTV operations earlier this month without permission. IPTV transmissions and operations in 14 cities in Guangxi have now been halted. Under Chinese regulations, […]
Penthouse, publisher of the Penthouse Magazine, has confirmed launch of Penthouse HD on the Eutelsat KabelKiosk digital channel platform extending its coverage in German digital cable networks. The channel-launch is in conjunction with Penthouse's current Pan-European HDTV distribution strategy. Eutelsat KabelKiosk is a leading autonomous service and channel-platform in Germany for digital cable networks cooperating […]