Korean broadcaster MBC has agreed with Google to provide its TV drama and entertainment programmes through the latter’s online video sharing site YouTube. Under the agreement, MBC will provide 10,000 hours of dramas and entertainment shows aired before 2005 for YouTube, which will be distributed around the world starting next year, according to the broadcaster. […]
Australian pay-TV operator Optus is linking with OTT supplier Fetch TV to offer would-be subscribers a number of low-cost packages of channels and downloaded content. At a cost of A$9.95 (€7.45) subscribers get a 1 Terabyte set-top box that can record, pause and replay free-to-air and digital channels, as well as tap into Fetch TV’s […]
Microsoft has recovered access to its You Tube channel after it was hacked over the weekend. Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos has reported that Redmond’s YouTube page had been hacked. All of Microsoft’s videos were taken down and replaced with videos calling on other YouTube users to upload their own or provide sponsorship. While […]
A survey carried out by Galaxy Research for networking hardware vendor Netgear has found that Australians own a lot of Internet-enabled devices that they don’t bother to put online. The report shows that there are almost 70 million Internet-enabled devices in Australian homes, but nearly 19 million aren’t connected. Game consoles are amongst the most […]
Eutelsat Communications has announced the full entry into commercial service of its high-capacity Atlantic Bird 7 satellite one month after its launch to 7 degrees West. The transfer of all television channels onto Atlantic Bird 7 at 7 degrees West from the Atlantic Bird 4A satellite was completed in the early hours of October 23 […]
SES has confirmed that its new Astra 1N satellite has entered commercial service at the orbital position of 28.2 degrees East. Astra 1N was built by Astrium on the Eurostar E3000 platform and is equipped with 52 transponders in the Ku frequency band. The satellite was successfully launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket from […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has reorganised its management and operating structure with the appointment of Jørgen Madsen as Executive Vice President of Nordic Broadcasting and Anders Nilsson as Executive Vice President of Central European Broadcasting. Irina Gofman continues in her role as Executive Vice President of Russian & CIS Broadcasting […]
BBC Worldwide has confirmed that all episodes of The Office are now available to purchase and download in the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, France and Germany for the first time on iTunes. The seminal British comedy classic first aired back in 2001, and to date, video viewing of the seminal British comedy classic has […]
Digital rights management business Base79, backed by Peter Bazalgette and Kelvin MacKenzie, is expanding. It has made two high-profile hirings: Gulliver Smithers joins from ITV as Base79’s CTO while Gideon Summerfield joins from the BBC as Head of Project Management. Base79 gets its name from the atomic number for gold. The pair will join Base79 […]
DirecTV is threatening to pull the plug on Fox cable networks next week unless a new carriage fee agreement is made. On the DirecTV site, CEO Mike White says that Fox parent News Corp. “has demanded that DirecTV customers pay nearly 40 per cent more for the same channels they already received. If a new […]