The growth of online TV viewing in the UK is slowing, according to figures from BARB. Almost 15 per cent of respondents to BARB’s biannual study, which tracked viewing habits over a week in November 2011, said they watched TV on a PC, laptop or tablet computer during that period – a rise of only […]
Telekom Srbija has launched a new web portal that enables Serbians, especially those living abroad, to legally watch TV channels from Serbia. All those interested need to download a special Web TV player from the “Sve na Klik” website, thanks to which they will be able to watch a total of 15 TV channels in […]
Modern Times Group is to recognise around SEK3.2 billion (€360 million) of write downs mainly on its Bulgarian operation and the shutdown of broadcasting in Slovenia. The move made followed an annual ‘asset impairment test’.The write-offs will be included in the group’s financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011. Hans-Holger Albrecht, president […]
2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry that will see a decline in traditional TV consumption, according to Rich Greenfield of analyst firm BTIG. “We believe 2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry and serve as a historic inflection point for traditional TV consumption,” he writes in a blog […]
A January 3rd report covered by BBC Monitoring says that recent Chinese clamp downs on entertainment and variety shows enforced by the Chinese media regulator (SARFT) has seen two-thirds of the shows vanish from viewer’s screens. Some 34 satellite channels are affected according to the country’s top broadcasting watchdog. Out have gone talent contents, talk […]
Most observers anticipated TiVo winning its long-running patent dispute with US telco AT&T having already won a similar action with EchoStar last year. But the terms of AT&T’s settlement with TiVo are impressive. AT&T will pay at least $215 million to close the litigation and will in addition pay TiVo to license its IP. TiVo […]
Unruly Media, which makes video campaigns designed for social sharing, has announced a $25 (£16.04) million first VC funding round to pay for international expansion. The money comes from Amadeus Capital Partners, Van den Ende & Deitmers and the UK’s Business Growth Fund, a fund formed by five banks. London-based Unruly, with 100 staff claims […]
Lattelecom’s latest figures has led the telco to claim it is now the largest TV operator in the Baltics. The Latvian IPTV and DTT operator ended 2011 with 230,000 TV subscribers, compared to Lithuania’s TEO with 147,100 and Estonia’s Elion with 134,600 subscribers. “Lattelecom as the industry leader is working on product development and provides […]
Digital TV content delivery platform enabler S3 Group has confirmed that the BBC is using its StormTest Development Center for its automated testing needs. The broadcaster will use this technology for its BBC iPlayer product, including testing for multiplatform delivery to devices that can range from connected TVs, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, tablet devices and […]
blinkx, the advanced video search engine, has formed a partnership with LifeMinute.TV, a portal to free, broadcast-quality video and audio content. This partnership will give blinkx users access to a wide array of high-quality lifestyle video content including fashion runways, music, movies, beauty news to parenting, travel, and finance. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx […]