Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has announced that its Premium Play service will be available for the iPad from April. The service provides access to over 2,000 TV programmes that can be watched on a TV, a computer or an Xbox console. Launched in November 2011, the Premium broadband service has now been running for 100 […]
Petra Mateos-Aparicio Morales has stepped down from Hispasat’s board as chairman, a position she has held for the past seven years. In a statement, she said that the time had come for her to resign following the change in Hispasat’s ownership structure and to “facilitate the transition to a new phase for Hispasat”. Last week, […]
Among the three major devices connected to TVs (video game consoles, DVRs and DVD players), DVRs account for the greatest percentage of Americans’ watching time, reports Nielsen. Since 2006 the percentage of time Americans spend watching live TV in the home has fallen from 89 per cent to 85 per cent. However, the amount of […]
Stiff competition from digital cable operators has forced India’s biggest DTH television company, Dish TV, to partner with neighbourhood cable operators, opening up a new front in the war between the DTH and cable industries. India’s top four metros – Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata – will replace all analogue television networks with digital transmission […]
A Canadian media conference has been told that piracy is a good thing as illegal downloading secures indie producers more business and markets for their product. “We’re really coming to a place right now where piracy and file sharing is actually doing what it’s supposed to do: It’s showing new markets, it’s taking the content […]
Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO at Arianespace, speaking in Dubai, says that his company’s revenues this year will exceed €1 billion ($1.3bn) and it is likely to launch 10-12 satellites during the year. “Globally, I think demand will not increase so much but there is a move in the areas of demand,” Le Gall said. “We […]
Belgian telco Belgacom has reported a strong performance for its TV operations in 2011, despite falling revenues and profits. The total number of subscribers to its ‘Belgacom TV’ IPTV service reached 1.211 million by the end of December, up 24 per cent from one year previously, with 72’000 coming in the 4th quarter alone. TV […]
Indonesia’s pay-TV market is taking off, speakers told a capacity crowd of delegates at CASBAA’s Indonesia in View: Growing Pay TV forum, held in Jakarta on February 29th. With more than 2 million paying subscribers at the beginning of 2012, a host of new distribution platforms coming online, and strong economic fundamentals, Indonesia is looking […]
B.net, Croatia’s leading cable and Internet operator and SeaChange International’s video-on-demand aggregator subsidiary On Demand Group (ODG) have confirmed the launch of subscription on demand (SVOD) services. The service builds on the successful launch of the transactional video on demand movie service launched by B.net in December. The new SVOD service will allow B.net consumers […]
The BBC’s Persian TV channel continues to be hard hit by signal jamming and censorship, as well as physical intimidation from Iranian thugs. But the endless switching of transponder transmission locations has not hurt its viewing numbers, which have rocketed in this past year. New data shows that its viewing numbers have grown 94 per […]