London has been chosen as the host city for the first Global Broadcast Summit to take place on 15-16 May 2012. The Summit will bring together Chief Executives of the world’s leading broadcasters, as well as regulators and government officials to debate and discuss the global broadcast industry from a strategic economic, technological and regulatory […]
Entone, a provider of Hybrid TV and Connected Home solutions, and Anevia, a specialist in video streaming solutions, have announced the integration of Anevia’s ViaMotion OTT solutions with Entone’s Hybrid TV devices and media hubs. Anevia offers a range of IP video streaming solutions for live and VoD content over managed IP networks as well […]
Sony has dumped the strange original name of its online TV services opting instead for the more prosaic Sony Entertainment Network. It is taking the music and video services from Qriocity, combining them with the PlayStation Network for gaming, and putting them under the new brand name. It may not entirely end the confusion as […]
In an almost perfect case of ‘putting his money where his mouth is’, BSkyB CEO Jeremy Darroch has put all of his annual salary into a share-buying spree. He has bought £384,670-worth of BSkyB shares (at £6.41 a share) which accounts for almost all of his net salary after tax and statutory deductions. But Darroch […]
Ofcom, the UK media regulator, is preparing plans for the first superfast wireless communication in Europe employing unused parts of the airwaves that had been reserved for television. Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive, said: “We are hoping that white space develops in the same way as WiFi has in the UK. We have reached a […]
Criterion Capital Partners, the new owner of SeeSaw, has lost a key content deal with Channel 4, meaning shows such as The Inbetweeners and Peep Show are no longer available on the online TV service. Criterion Capital Partners, which also bought former AOL asset Bebo, took a 75 per cent stake in SeeSaw from owner […]
Channel 4’s catch-up service 4oD drew 3.4 million viewers in July, according to figures released for the first time by the broadcaster. Channel 4 shows also drove an unspecified increase in 4oD programme views, to 29 million in July. The broadcaster reported 242 million 4oD views in last 12 months, a 20.9 per cent increase […]
Video-on-demand supplier Netflix has alerted analysts that it expects lower service adoption rates out of its Latin American markets “than those achieved in Canada” (its debut international market). Canada saw Netflix launch in September 2010 and now has 967,000 subscribers as at June 31st. “But still, we are very optimistic about what we can […]
The first six months of this year were not good for sales of consumer electronics devices, according to the latest report from researchers GfK. It says the sector suffered a “significant deterioration” with sales in Western Europe declining by 11.3 percent compared with the same period in 2010. The numbers come out ahead of the […]
Online TV service Hulu has launched a new subscription service in Japan, a move that marks the first international expansion for the company. Starting at launch and in the weeks following, Hulu’s service will offer entertainment fans in Japan unlimited instant access to hundreds of premium feature films and thousands of episodes from previous seasons […]