The BBC’s BBC World News channel has lost carriage on Ukraine’s largest cable operator, Volia. The cable company says the channel has been switched off because its contract with the BBC had “expired”. The editor in chief of the BBC’s Ukraine service said (in a Facebook message) that Volia was the only Ukrainian cable operator […]
Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable network operator, has formally joined the RDK community. The company licensed the Reference Design Kit (RDK) from RDK Management aimed at accelerating the development of next-generation in-home devices and video services. “The RDK provides a unified technological foundation for pay-TV operators and our ecosystem of partners,” said Lorenz Glatz, Chief […]
Extreme Reach, the video platform for integrated TV, online and mobile video advertising, has completed its acquisition of the TV business of Digital Generation for $485 million in cash. The combined company has revenues of $270 million and over 750 employees. DG was a leading provider of distribution solutions for TV advertising. Its offices and […]
UTV Media has advised Ofcom it has accepted the financial terms announced for the renewal of its regional Channel 3 licence in Northern Ireland for a further ten year period commencing January 1st 2015. John McCann, Group Chief Executive, UTV Media plc said: “Today’s announcement is wonderful news for our staff and our business and […]
US satellite broadcasting giant DirecTV has finally dumped Atlanta-based Weather Channel, and contracted WeatherNation. The Weather Channel has been blacked out on DirecTV for some weeks. Colorado-based WeatherNation is the alternate service. WeatherNation was launched in 2011 although it succeeds Weather Cast which for a brief period also replaced Weather Channel while the broadcaster was […]
Envivio, a provider of software-based video processing and delivery solutions, has announced that Envivio Muse encoders and Envivio Halo network media processors (NMP) have been deployed by Omni for live streaming of premium content as part of the new Blink TV service in the Philippines. The recently launched OTT video service offers Hollywood movies, TV […]
Global telco Vodafone has tabled a €7 billion bid for Spanish cable MSO ONO, according to reports in the UK and Spain. It is understood the cableco will discuss the offer at a Board meeting February 11th. The move follows Vodafone’s €7.7 billion acquisition of German cable MSO Kabel Deutschland in September 2013. At the […]
The BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are joining forces to establish a new service to make their catch-up TV services – BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4oD – available as standard on all smart TVs. It was originally envisaged that YouView would be used as the future brand and technology for public service broadcasting, eventually […]
Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development has defined the regulations for the awarding of DVB-T frequencies that will make up three new national DTT multiplexes. The licences will be awarded for 20 years and the rights of use cannot be transferred for the first three years. Three lots of frequencies will be allocated: Lot 1 with […]
The US version of TV talent show The X-Factor has been cancelled after three series following judge Simon Cowell’s decision to return to the UK show. The Fox network show has been unable to match the ratings success of Cowell’s previous singing contest American Idol. The X Factor USA‘s audience dropped from 12 million in […]