France's football league, the LFP, plans to launch its own TV channel president Frédéric Thiriez has confirmed. Thiriez said they were talking with service providers including Numericable, SFR and Orange and also intend to see football on pay DTT. Initially the channel will show League 2 games, but Thiriez said the LFP's ambition was to […]
Singapore’s pay-TV operators SingTel and StarHub have secured the broadcast rights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The deal follows months of negotiations by the pay-TV operators. The rights of the event would be the first high profile content that pay-TV operators will air simultaneously following a government regulation that allows pay-TV operators to carry […]
Orange has revived its long-held ambition to offer TV services over the broadband network. The mobile operator, which has access to almost 30 million customers after a merger with T-Mobile's UK arm in March, outsourced its fixed-line network to BT last month. It will now piggyback on BT's more advanced network that extends its coverage […]
ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile technology, applications and services company, has made an agreement with leading pan-African VAS aggregator, Groupe Digital Afrique (GDA), to deliver World Cup football content – supplied by Goal.com – to 25 countries and up to 45 Mobile Operators across Africa beginning 1st June. The ROK-powered WAP service containing goal alerts […]
International cable operator Liberty Global has reported a first-quarter profit – its second in a row after five consecutive quarterly losses – on a $1.4 billion gain from discontinued operations. The company saw record subscriber growth for Internet and telephone services in Europe. Chief Executive Mike Fries said the company saw strong demand for its […]
ITV has reported an 8 per cent year-on-year increase in TV ad revenue in the first three months, and is predicting a World Cup-fuelled 22 per cent surge in the second quarter, but has warned that the outlook in the second half remains “highly uncertain”. ITV chief executive Adam Crozier, giving his first management update […]
Korea will transmit its first stereoscopic 3D television programmes over terrestrial broadcasting networks on May 19th, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has confirmed. All four of the country’s land-based television stations – KBS, MBC, SBS and EBS – will participate in the trial services, beginning with the 3D broadcasts of the 2010 Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships […]
Harmonic and Omneon have confirmed the signing of a definitive agreement in which Harmonic would acquire Omneon for some $274 million in cash and Harmonic stock. The proposed acquisition would combine Harmonic's position in video delivery infrastructure with Omneon's technology for the production, management and distribution of digital media. “This proposed combination will position Harmonic […]
From David del Valle in Madrid Around 12 million TV sets in Spain, 46 per cent of the total market, are not ready for HDTV and another 11 million need a special set-top-box to watch it, according to the Electronic Association, Asimelec. Most of those 12 million are “old TV sets”, capable of receiving DTT […]
Telegent Systems has revealed that continuing growth in demand for its free-to-air mobile TV receivers has propelled it beyond a milestone of 80 million units shipped since it first launched its mobile TV receiver technology in mid-2007. Analyst firm Forward Concepts estimates that 78 million broadcast TV handsets were shipped globally in 2009. “We have […]