Spanish cable group Ono has revealed that it closed 2013 with a total of 5,234,000 services. In the high-speed segment, Ono added 31.000 new clients in the quarter, reaching a total 811,000. Over 7,000 new customers added in the last quarter bring the total to 1,868,000 at December 31st 2013. In broadband, the operator closed […]
Liberty Global has completed the sale of substantially all of the assets of Chellomedia to AMC Networks for €750 million ($1 billion). Liberty Global will retain its Dutch premium channel business, which consists of its Film1 and Sport1 channels. “Chellomedia has a collection of strong, well-established and well-managed assets worldwide and we’re excited about the […]
Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, has published strong Q4 results, adding 31,000 homes and bringing total households served to over 1.8 million. Freesat now reaches over 3.8 million UK viewers. Freesat’s continuing growth demonstrates the clear attraction of premium TV on a subscription-free basis. With a Freesat box, viewers have access to over […]
Internet TV streaming service FilmOn X has submitted a motion to the US Supreme Court requesting that its legal representatives be allowed to file briefs and address the justices in oral arguments in the forthcoming court proceedings brought by a group of broadcasters against rival service Aereo, amid fears that Aereo will use the copyright […]
On Digital Media (ODM) is the official South African licence holder for DTH transmissions over the country for the TopTV service. The near-bankrupt ODM/TopTV business is being bought by the StarTimes broadcasting operation, and the transmissions licences were being transferred to StarTimes which took over TopTV in December. That process is creating headaches. ODM chief […]
Twitter has bought a batch of more than 900 patents from IBM, and resolves a row between the two parties where IBM was alleging that Twitter was infringing its patents. In November Twitter, ahead of its IPO, told US regulators that IBM had accused it of infringing “at least” 3 patents. The deal was done […]
Hungarian cable, IP and DTH pay-TV operators saw modest gains
Euronews registered record viewing figures on YouTube in 2013, with 13.6 million unique viewers (according to comScore) in the month of December and an overall rise of 160 per cent in its viewing figures over the year. This new record makes Euronews the no.1 news media on YouTube. Damien Marchi, Director of Product Marketing and […]
Internet TV streaming service Aereo plans to launch its technology in Greater San Antonio region on February 19th. Greater San Antonio includes a 22-county area across Texas. In January 2013, Aereo said that it intended to expand to 22 new US cities beyond its New York initial launch during the course of the year, but […]
SNL Kagan MRG, a specialist in the Video and Media ecosystem, has released its latest report, ‘MPEG Broadcast Contribution Encoders’. Contribution encoders are used to compress the video and audio stream coming from the camera, truck or venue before it is transmitted to the studio. Contribution encoders are also used for compressing the stream as […]