Members of a broad coalition of industry and labour groups have stepped up their campaign to rally support for legislation that would give them new tools to crack down on foreign websites engaged in piracy and counterfeiting by lobbying the US House of Representatives en masse. Some 40 representatives of the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and […]
BT Openreach has announced three significant developments that will provide a major boost to Broadband Britain. As well as launching its up to 110Mbps Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) service, Openreach revealed it will use this technology to deliver downstream speeds of up to 300Mbps from next Spring. These speeds are three times faster than […]
Advertising on the Internet increased its share of the overall UK market to a record 27 per cent in the first half of 2011, retaking the position as the dominant platform for advertisers from the TV industry. Display advertising was the best performer within the sector, with industry experts saying that buyers in the fast-moving […]
Product placement for TV programmes in three key European markets, the UK, France and Germany, will see steady revenue growth in the years to come as a result of regulations easing across the EU governing the practice, according to an IHS Screen Digest Advertising Intelligence Service report. Conducted together with specialist product placement firm Madigan […]
Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), the European Broadcast Union (EBU), and the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) – have announced that they will work together to accelerate their respective efforts at driving interoperability and delivering efficient media workflows. Senior managers from the three bodies plan to meet regularly to exchange information and […]
Panasonic, the Worldwide official partner for the upcoming London Olympic Games in 2012, says it will be installing the world’s largest-ever TV screen for the event. Screen sizes in the pre-Games tests will range from 14 metres to a massive 52 metres for the London 2012 Olympics. Panasonic say that their abundance of plasma displays […]
The appetite Canadians show for Over the Top (OTT) broadband TV services is substantial and growing. A new cable industry association report says 48 per cent of Canadians have watched a movie or TV series episode online. Such research underscores additional industry analysis that also shows Internet users will up- and download 1.2 million petabytes […]
The future of the US cartoon series The Simpsons is in doubt after 20th Century Fox Television said it could no longer afford to produce the show without its voice actors taking a huge pay cut. US reports say the company wants 45 per cent pay cuts. “We believe this brilliant series can and should […]
Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of satellite services, has announced that the launch of the Intelsat 18 spacecraft, aboard a Sea Launch AG-provided Land Launch Zenit-3SLB vehicle, has been delayed 24 hours. Orbital Sciences Corporation, the manufacturer of the satellite, is currently evaluating an out-of-specification parameter on Intelsat 18. Launch provider Sea Launch has established […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has launched its documentary pay-TV channels Viasat History and Viasat Nature in Uganda and Tanzania, following the signing of a distribution agreement with digital terrestrial television operator StarTimes. StarTimes will also include the channels in its pay-TV offering in Nigeria. Viasat History and Viasat Nature are […]