Sixty nine per cent of key media figures are currently experiencing difficulty funding their productions, according to an online survey conducted by business and financial adviser Grant Thornton. The survey also revealed that 85 per cent of respondents do not have all of their content tied up with one distributor, indicating the growing need to […]
Three people have been arrested in the north-eastern Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi on suspicion of breaking the encryption codes used by the Greek digital satellite pay-TV platform Nova and offering free viewing to tens of thousands of people around Greece. The three men are alleged to have sold to their clients, for a one-off […]
Eutelsat Communications has confirmed the signature of a far-reaching contract concluded between its Skylogic broadband affiliate and SFR, one of the leading telecommunications operators in France. SFR has selected Tooway to meet demand for broadband from its customers beyond ADSL coverage. Called the ‘Satellite Internet Pack’ the new service supplied by SFR wuses capacity on […]
SES Astra, an SES company, has entered into a partnership with Italian broadcast and network service provider Milano Teleport to offer capacity from its 23.5 degrees East orbital position to Italian broadcasters. 23.5 degrees East is SES Astra's increasingly attractive orbital position offering high quality coverage of the Italian market. Milano Teleport intends to use […]
Pace, global developer of digital TV technologies, has confirmed it will be providing the HD DVR set-top boxes to support a new, advanced service offering from Latin America's largest cable operator, Argentina's Cablevisión. Pace's set-top box, developed exclusively for operators like Cablevisión, will be launched in conjunction with the new MAX service at the end […]
Project Canvas – a joint technology venture between the BBC, ITV, BT and Five that could bring on-demand programming to Freeview and Freesat – is unlikely to be rolled out until 2011 because it is mired in a complicated approval process. Erik Huggers, head of future media and technology at the BBC, warned that delays […]
The European Commission would oppose the Spanish government if it cuts the Internet access of users that download copyrighted material, the European Commission’s top telecommunications policy-maker, Viviane Reding, has said. “If Spain cuts off Internet access without a procedure in front of a judge, it would certainly run into conflict with the European Commission,” Reding […]
The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment has said the US should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films. CEO Jim Gianopulos said Internet piracy is the single biggest threat to the film industry worldwide, and independent films are the hardest hit. He said Internet service providers […]
Vivendi/Canal+ has bought broadcaster TF1's 9.9 per cent stake in Canal Plus France for E744 million. After the deal – originally planned for the first quarter of 2010 – is completed, Vivendi’s Canal Plus Group will own 74.9 percent of Canal Plus France. TF1 has held a put option since January 2007 following Vivendi/Canal Plus […]
Google has signed a licence agreement with DVR company TiVo that enables the Internet search provider to integrate TiVo set-top box viewing data into its measurement of audiences for inventory sold through the Google TV Ads platform. The deal adds approximately 3.6 million subscribers to the universe of set-top boxes that Google TV Ads has […]