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Orange portal on Samsung Smart TVs

Orange has confirmed an agreement with Samsung to offer Orange content and services on Samsung Smart TVs. The service will launch first in France in the coming weeks, on Samsung’s Smart TV range for 2011, and then on Samsung Blu-ray players and Home cinema systems before the end of the year. It will roll out […]

July 11, 2011

Ofcom: ‘Very concerned’; Sky shares slide

Ofcom is likely to investigate News Corporation’s proposed bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB . Pressure on the regulator has ramped up as more revelations on the News International phone hacking scandal have poured out. On Friday morning the Prime Minister said Ofcom should take account of ‘the new circumstances’, and Simon Hughes, Deputy Leader of […]

July 8, 2011By Nick Snow

Sony: YouView not for us

YouView has lost support from Sony which said that it would not be linking to the service in its connected Bravia TV sets.  It is a blow to the BBC originated service as it tries to strike deals with connected TV makers. The VoD service was supposed to launch this summer, but now that start […]

July 8, 2011

Google backs planning tool for online TV

Google is funding a multi-million pound planning tool that helps brands understand consumer behaviour across TV and online media and most effectively leverage their spend. It is working with research firm Kantar to build the first panel that will measure TV and online media habits from a single source. Kantar will recruit a 3,000-strong panel, […]

July 8, 2011

QuickPlay buys FLO TV centre

QuickPlay Media, provider of solutions for the distribution of premium video to portable wireless devices, has revealed it will acquire a variety of network operations centre assets of FLO TV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, further expanding its US presence. As a result of the acquisition, QuickPlay will take over FLO TV’s 30,000-square-foot data and […]

July 8, 2011

Coalition draws up ‘copyright alert’ framework

Movie studios, record labels and leading US Internet Service Providers have drawn up a framework for combating online piracy. Under the agreement, which followed months of negotiations, the ISPs will send warnings to customers whose broadband accounts had been used to transmit or receive copyrighted works without permission. The collaboration will be overseen by the […]

July 8, 2011By Colin Mann

RESEARCH: Viewers still prefer ‘live’ TV

Though connected TV technology can now be found in almost two in five TV households, Knowledge Networks findings reveal that viewers of all age groups still prefer “live” TV over “high-control” technologies. Among all connected TV viewers, almost half (47 per cent) say that watching a programme at its regular time is their first choice […]

July 8, 2011

Ergen wins TerreStar

A US Bankruptcy Court judge on July 7th approved the $1.37 billion sale of TerreStar’s assets to Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network. The deal means that Dish gets access to 20 MHz of satellite and matching terrestrial bandwidth. It is the third such acquisition for Ergen and represents a major shift away from its core DTH […]

July 8, 2011By Chris Forrester

Chile pay-TV nears 2m subs

During the first quarter of 2011, Chile added 43,000 net new pay TV subscribers taking the overall total to 1.97 million users, according to data from Chile’s Telecoms ministry. The largest operator gain was with Telefónica which recorded almost 18,000 new users. The core audience was numbered at just 882,000 DTH subscribers, and 1.09 million […]

July 8, 2011By Chris Forrester

Charter and Rovi TotalGuide agreement

Rovi Corporation has inked an agreement with Charter Communications enabling Charter to distribute Rovi TotalGuide Solution on Charter’s set-top boxes, mobile and tablet devices and the Web. In addition, the multi-year agreement includes a licence to the Rovi Remote Record Scheduling Application for i-Guide and Passport Guide and for the use of the Rovi interactive […]

July 8, 2011