A&E Network, a flagship channel of global media content company, A+E Networks, will launch in Australia on Foxtel on February 16, 2012. In Australia, A&E will carry original, unscripted entertainment series. The factual entertainment channel is the latest from A+E Networks to be offered by the Foxtel Channels Group which also operates Hisory, Crime & […]
Apple is showing interest in joining the bidding for the next set of live UK Premier League TV rights when the tender goes out before the end of the season, according to the Daily Mail. The Premier League is seen as the type of premium content that will help establish Apple TV in the UK […]
With more than 20 million streaming members globally, Netflix says it streamed over 2 billion hours of content in the last quarter of last year. “We were thrilled to deliver more than two billion hours of TV shows and movies across 45 countries in the fourth quarter,” said Netflix Co-Founder and CEO Reed Hastings. “Netflix […]
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 […]
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 […]