Canada’s MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates (MDA), best known perhaps for the space technology CanadArm retrieval crane used on the Space Shuttle, is to buy satellite builder Space Systems/Loral (SS/L). MDA will pay over $774 million in cash, plus at least $135 million in other considerations. The payments will go to SS/L’s parent company Loral Space […]
VIZIO, the US LCD HDTV company, has confirmed the launch of the VIZIO Co-Star Stream Player. Using the latest version of Google TV, the VIZIO Co-Star transforms any HDTV into the ultimate smart TV, merging live and streaming entertainment into one intuitive and easy experience. With VIZIO’s stream player, users get instant access to thousands […]
Sky News has unveiled a new-look website following a major redesign of skynews.com. The new site makes it easier for users to keep track of the day’s biggest stories and explore video, images and analysis as breaking news unfolds. Andrew Hawken, Head of Editorial, Sky News Digital, said: “The new site is real progress for […]
Serbia Broadband (SBB) and Eutelsat Communications are expanding their collaboration with the signature of an agreement between Serbia’s most progressive media company and Eutelsat’s Skylogic affiliate to distribute the Tooway satellite broadband service in six Balkan countries. The new agreement will notably enable SBB to bundle its Total TV platform on the Eutelsat 16A satellite […]
CSG Systems International a global provider of software and services based business support solutions has said that it is offering new ways to accelerate Indian cable operators’ evolution into the digitisation era. To meet Indian cables industry’s demand at its critical growth point, CSG will bring its comprehensive product portfolio, expertise and a variety of […]
Imagine Communications, a specialist in advanced digital video solutions, thas announced that Falcon IP/Complete has become a technical partner and reseller of Imagine’s transcoding solutions for multiscreen IP video. Under terms of the agreement, Falcon will sell and install Imagine’s full range of ICE Video Platform transcoding solutions to cable, telco and OTT video service […]
Ilse Howling, Managing Director of UK digital terrestrial TV platform Freeview, has suggested that the future of the service is at risk should unfavourable decisions be made in terms of the reuse of UHF spectrum. Advising delegates at the Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar on ‘The future of free-to-air TV’ that the platform had reached 2.6 […]
News Corporation is pondering a split into two companies, separating its publishing arm from the far larger entertainment division, thereby removing a drag on the stock price and the reputational taint from the criminal behaviour at its UK newspapers. The report first appeared in the WSJ, a News Corp paper, and hasn’t been denied. The […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its latest Pay-TV Services and Subscribers report, which forecasts and analyses the telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video services markets. “Cable video still makes up over half of the global pay-TV market, but revenue growth is decelerating due to a slowdown in new subscribers, especially […]
Competition between TV networks to air top movie content on television is so intense that some stations are willing to pay eight-figure fees, in some cases committing to healthy per-box-office-dollar payment formulas even before the movies formally open on the big screen, according to an IHS Screen Digest US. Cable Network Intelligence report. Nearly 10,000 […]