Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific and PT Trans Media have announced a strategic partnership to launch CNN Indonesia, a 24-hour news channel and accompanying website in Bahasa Indonesia. The channel will be the first of its kind for CNN in Southeast Asia, delivering a localised version of CNN’s unique brand of high-quality news to the […]
UTV Ireland Limited (UTV) a subsidiary of UTV Media plc has signed a ten year television content provision contract with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), under section 71 of the Irish Broadcasting Act. UTV Ireland plans to commence broadcasting in the Republic of Ireland in January 2015. UTV has an agreement with ITV Studios […]
Inview Technology has confirmed announced the appointment of Martin Edwards to its board. Edwards was Chairman of Manchester United for 23 years from 1980-2003 and also served the Club as its first CEO 1981-2000. He currently holds the position of honorary life president at the reigning Premier League champions. Edwards commented: “From the very start […]
A record 313,000 cable MSO subscriptions added in the fourth quarter helped advanced television entertainment market specialist TiVo report its best-ever full-year Service and Technology revenues. Reporting financial results for the fourth quarter and Fiscal Year ended January 31, 2014, Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, said this was another solid quarter for TiVo […]
BBC Director-General Tony Hall has suggested that there is room for modernisation of the BBC licence fee so that it applies to the consumption of BBC TV programmes, whether live on BBC One or on-demand via BBC iPlayer. In a speech at the Oxford Media Convention, Hall refuted suggestions that the licence fee undermined competition, […]
The ProSiebenSat.1 Group closed the 2013 financial year with record figures: Consolidated revenues rose by 10.6 per cent to €2.605 billion (previous year: €2.356 billion). Recurring EBITDA increased by 6.1 per cent to €790.3 million (previous year: €744.8 million) despite investments in strategic growth areas. Underlying net income rose by 6.8 per cent to €379.7 million (previous year: €355.5 million). The strongest revenue driver […]
Following Disney’s launch of Disney Movies Everywhere – a cloud-based movie service – in conjunction with Apple, rather than allying itself to the UltraViolet digital content ownership ecosystem backed by rival studios and consumer electronics groups, Mitch Singer, president of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), the body tasked with deploying UltraViolet, has suggested that […]
Devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and portable gaming systems have made it easy for consumers to multitask while watching TV. However, a November 2013 study by TiVo found that three-quarters of US TV viewers were more focused on what was on the tube, even when using a second screen. Smartphones were the No. […]
Global shipments for Wi-Fi enabled Consumer Electronics devices grew 19 per cent year-over-year to reach 1.9 billion units in 2013 according to research from Strategy Analytics. Over 4 billion Wi-Fi enabled consumer electronics devices are now
At the 76th meeting of the DVB Steering Board, new extensions to the DVB-S2 specification have been approved. The new enhanced specification, known as DVB-S2X, offers spectral efficiency gains for professional applications by up to 20 -30 per cent and for some scenarios, gains of up to 50 per cent can be achieved. In addition, […]