The UK government has revealed that a new code of practice setting out new anti-piracy measures and procedures is expected to be published in June. The suggestion came in the government’s response to the Film Policy Review Panel’s report – A Future For British Film: It begins with the audience… The response, prepared by the Department for Culture, Media and [...]
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has announced that a blinkx app is now available on Sony Internet-enabled home entertainment devices. Consumers can now watch videos from blinkx’s extensive index of professionally produced content on a variety of customised channels. The blinkx app for Sony gives customers immediate access to blinkx’s index of premium content through 18 distinct video [...]
ITV has unveiled its new dedicated digital offering for Euro 2012. The site uses the real-time rolling news feature, which was launched as part of the new ITV News digital product earlier this year. For users who are away from their TV and want to watch the tournament, ITV games will be streamed live to the website and featured at [...]
BBC World News has added another 40 million potential viewing homes this past year, taking its total distribution to more than 330 million. Recent deals with Comcast in the US, TV4 in Sweden, ERT S.A. in Greece and D life, and a major distribution deal with Disney in Japan, have all added to the service’s distribution. BBC World News is [...]
Eurosport will show all 31 games of this summer’s European Football Championship in Poland and the Ukraine time delayed under agreement reached with the European Football Association. The deal covers both standard and high HD on Eurosport and Eurosport 2 in 58 countries. As selected games will be repeated, the broadcaster will transmit a total of 230 hours from the [...]
Sky Italia has acquired the TV rights for the FIM MotoGP World Championship starting from the 2014 season, which will be offered across all Sky technology platforms, including FTA TV, pay TV, Internet, mobile and Sky Go. Thanks to an agreement with Dorna, the company organising the championship, Sky Italia will have the exclusive right to broadcast all 18 races [...]
SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN) has announced a successful first year of broadcasting Christian television to the UK audiences since first being launched on 19th May 2011. SBN is a 24-hour Christian faith network that offers high quality programming from the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. The partnership between SBN and VISION247 has helped Jimmy Swaggart get his message to his followers in [...]
Shazam-enabled advertising during ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent marked a major milestone for interactive adverts in the UK. Around 50,000 viewers used the Shazam App to tag the Pepsi MAX and Cadbury ads in just 60 seconds of airtime during special ad breaks in Saturday’s final. Fans of the show who had Shazam on their smartphones were able to enter contests [...]
Telefonica’s Latin American operation is to carry all 36 Olympic Games channels live to its viewers of its Terra on-line broadband service. Terra says its Olympic Games portal will rely on 36 channels simultaneously, for the broadcasting of a total of some 4,760 HD and 3D hours. Terra says it expects to reach 100 million single users over the course [...]
The big four networks plus ESPN, Discovery, History, USA, Food Network and TNT are the top ten TV brands American consumers can’t do without, according to the latest edition of the “Must Keep TV” report from Solutions Research Group (SRG). ABC was identified as the top “must-keep” TV brand in by 51 per cent of all respondents overall, narrowly beating [...]
