Pilat Media Global, a supplier of business management software to the media industry, is joining forces with SimpleStream Limited to launch OTTilus, a new company specialising in OTT video solutions for broadcasters, platform operators, and new media ventures. OTTilus will be a jointly owned company with Pilat Media owning 60 per cent and SimpleStream owning […]
YouView, the open IPTV platform supported by a consortium of the UK’s public service broadcasters, ISPs and broadcast infrastructure provider Arqiva, is to launch officially on July 4. A launch event is to be hosted by entrepreneur Lord Sugar, who chairs the YouView board and YouView’s CEO Richard Halton. An initial trial of some 350 […]
Jeremy Darroch, BSkyB’s CEO, has suggested that live English Premier League football could be carried on the pay-TV operator’s NOW TV over-the-top Internet TV service, which he revealed would launch mid-July. He suggested that initially, the service would carry Sky’s movie and entertainment content, with sport following at a later stage. “We see NOW as […]
Ed Vaizey, the UK’s Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has refuted suggestions that as many as 2.3 million homes risk losing their digital terrestrial TV service as a result of interference from 4G mobile phone signals. Speaking at the Future of Broadcasting Conference in London, Vaizey suggested that the real number was as […]
A board meeting today (Wednesday) will decide whether to split News’ entertainment and publishing businesses into two separately listed companies. News Corp has retained Goldman Sachs to handle the split process, according to American reports. The three editors of Murdoch’s British titles – Dominic Mohan of the Sun, James Harding of the Times and John […]
Netflix has asked US lawmakers to prevent cablecos from hindering its growth by imposing online-data consumption limits for customers. Netflix, with 23.4 million subscribers, said in testimony submitted for a hearing this week before the House communications and technology subcommittee in Washington: “When you couple limited broadband competition with a strong desire to protect a […]
Daniel Danker, General Manager of On Demand at the BBC, has suggested that the interactive ‘Red Button’ used on digital TV services will be given a new lease of life, taking advantage of new web-based technologies that deliver richer, more visually-enticing experiences. Speaking at the Future of Broadcasting Conference in London on the subject of […]
Richard Lindsay-Davies, Director General, of the UK’s Digital TV Group (DTG) the not-for-profit trade body formed to ensure the successful delivery and evolution of digital TV and associated technologies, has confirmed that the organisation will continue to safeguard the consumer experience of digital terrestrial television and connected TV. Addressing delegates at the Westminster eForum seminar […]
Google is getting help from shock jock Howard Stern to revive its Internet TV software, which has languished since its debut 19 months ago. Sirius XM will make all of its programming, including Howard Stern, available on Google TV, through a new app that will let listeners pause live programmes and play back up to […]
Ofcom has published its latest complaints data, covering telecoms providers and, for the first time, pay TV services. Since the report was first published in April 2011, it has included telecoms companies providing broadband, landline and mobile telephone services. This report, covering the first quarter of 2012, is the first to include complaints relating to […]