Chellomedia Dutch premium channels Film1 and Sport1 have announced a 7 per cent growth in subscriber numbers bringing the total to 490,000 for the year ended December 2011. Chellomedia says the growth in subscribers is mainly driven by innovation and commitment to add features to the Film1 service all of which are designed to enhance the experience for the movie [...]
CNN’s US audience continues to drift away to rivals MSNBC, Fox News and others. However, the table looks very different if you measure online activity. Quoting comScore data for last year, CNN says that it drew more than 73 million unique visitors across all its on-line services last year, and that more than 100 million video were started from its [...]
BT and Miramax have announced a licensing agreement that will bring films from the leading independent studio to BT Vision customers in the UK. The agreement gives BT Vision Unlimited subscribers instant access to a range of films from the Miramax collection, which has received 284 Academy Award nominations and won 68 Oscars. BT Vision subscribers will be able to [...]
A planned launch of the already delayed SES-4 satellite on January 29th was scrubbed, with the satellite removed to the safekeeping of the integration facility. Technicians are re-examining the problems on the Russian Proton/Breeze-M rocket assembly, but the launch is delayed “until further notice” according to a press statement. The problems are dramatically affecting a long waiting list of planned [...]
AirTies Wireless Networks has confirmed it will deliver OTT STBs to Digiturk, Turkey’s largest satellite operator, targeting Turks abroad. The AirTies and Digiturk partnership makes DigiturkWebTV’s premium content and LigTv HD available to subscribers abroad in real time, VoD and playback up to 12 hours after initial screening. Subscribers abroad can adjust the broadcast schedule of Turkish Super League football [...]
Eutelsat Communications has revealed that its Skylogic affiliate has signed a distribution agreement with NordNet, a subsidiary of France-Télécom-Orange, which enables France’s leading alternative broadband supplier to add new impetus to its range of satellite Internet services. Using Skylogic’s Tooway satellite broadband service, NordNet has launched Triple Play services in France delivering 10 Mbps download speeds for consumers and businesses.
CETel Group (Central European Telecom Services) has finalised its preparations for Satellite Services on the powerful satellite Yahsat 1A. Its Teleport, located in the centre of Germany near Bonn, operates a 6.1m antenna on Yahsat 1A satellite, which offers complete European and Middle East coverage in lower extended Ku-Band. With its extraordinary, highly secured and fully redundant Teleport facilities, CETel [...]
VeEX, a global expert in Telecom and CATV test solutions, today announced the introduction of the FX300 mini OTDR series, a product optimised for today’s optical fiber networks. Featuring optical performance that rivals larger traditional and more expensive OTDRs, the unit offers impressive measurement capabilities to troubleshoot and verify optical fibers used in FTTx, metro ethernet, and next generation mobile [...]
BeeSmart, the interactive TV solution provider for service operators and AltWolf, a software development company, are proud to announce a BeeSmart iPhone application. This novelty represents easier access to services for end-users, which are now available from iPhone devices and numerous possibilities for service operators to upgrade their offering. BeeSmart iPhone application works together with the BeeSmart TV middleware. It [...]
With 2012 seeing increased competition in the UK pay-TV and online television sector, including the January launch of Netflix, and the anticipated late spring launch of YouView, Sky has today announced a series of enhancements to its video on demand service, Sky Anytime+, aimed at expanding the choice of programmes available for customers and make it available to millions of [...]
