Europe’s two giant satellite operators, SES Astra and Eutelsat, have both turned in blisteringly good results. SES’ results (for the year to December 31st) declared revenues up 7.1 per cent to €1.735 billion, and with record operating profits, up 10.8 per cent, to €797 million. Luxembourg’s SES’ President Romain Bausch said that a net 76 […]
BBC Worldwide’s Amanda Hill, MD of its BBC Earth and Walking with Dinosaurs projects, says BBC Worldwide is firmly behind 3D-TV for natural history factual and documentary programming. Speaking at Panasonic’s 2011 Convention in London, she said: “Innovation has always driven natural history forwards, 3D is the next stage…There’s a proven business model for 3D […]
Users of the BBC’s iPlayer service are now able to search for shows from a range of other broadcasters and other on-demand content providers. Through metadata-sharing partnerships, users can now find programmes from ITV, Channel 4, S4C, Five, SeeSaw.com and new partner MSN Video Player, directly from the BBC iPlayer website. The initiative comes some […]
ESPN has unit launched authenticated online streaming for a number of its properties with Verizon. The accord follows a far-reaching agreement the parties reached last October for continued carriage of ABC Family, Disney Channel, Disney XD and the 2012 launch of Disney Junior and the online streaming of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN Buzzer Beater. […]
ITV has appointed Richard Williams to the newly created position of controller of multi-platform commissioning and digital content. He’ll be responsible for implementing a collaborative approach to commissioning ITV digital content across platforms as part of the broadcaster’s stated transformation strategy. The company recently appointed BBC digtal strategist James Micklethwait to the newly created role […]
Comcast has announced the launch of Xfinity 3D, its new 24-hour, next-generation 3D channel. The channel will bring customers live music concerts, sporting events, more than a dozen movies and original 3D programming. Comcast also announced that there have been more than one million 3D views On Demand since the Masters Golf Tournament in April […]
Professional video produced, published and hosted by US online-only media brands rose by 47.1 per cent in 2010 to 72.3 billion views, the highest annual growth rate seen since 2007, according to a report published by AccuStream Research. Growth in 2010 was driven in part by increased episodic TV viewing (over 10 billion total long-form […]
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has confirmed that a blinkx app will soon be available on Boxee. The app will be offered through Boxee’s App Library and will allow audiences to seamlessly search, discover and watch Internet video from top content partners across blinkx’s index of 35 million hours of video content. The […]
Arris has revealed that its Whole Home Solution Media Gateway will be offered by Oregon-based MSO BendBroadband throughout its network. The Arris Whole Home solution consists of the Arris Media Gateway, a converged multi-services platform that provides integrated multimedia entertainment to the entire home, and Arris Media Players connected to each television. The Whole Home […]
Spain’s ONO has told Cable Congress it will launch its TiVo STP in September and admits it has a marketing mountain to climb as TiVo is an unknown brand in Spain. Meanwhile, alongside its results Virgin has revealed it has 50,000 reservations for its TiVo powered box. TiVo users must pay £199 (€236) for the […]