Nielsen will offer a new service that uses cable set-top boxes to shed light on people’s TV-viewing habits. Under the deal with Charter Communications, Nielsen receives information from 320,000 households in Los Angeles and then develops second-by-second data that it can sell to clients like media agencies and advertisers. Nielsen has worked for years with […]
From Nick Snow at the IPTV World Forum in London Computing and networking giant NEC Corporation is to launch a full-scale IPTV business with what it describes as high-profile NGN (Next Generation Networks) carrier applications. It is looking to providing end-to-end IPTV solutions to network operators on a global scale. The says it company will […]
Babelgum, has launched its new Web 2.0 version which features social networking tools. Additionally, the platform is now compatible on Macs as well as with Windows. With the new platform, viewers can now join one of three Babelgum Communities: Films & Festivals, Motorcycling and Nature & Conservation, these three being the first of a series […]
Freeview has confirmed that sales for 2007 hit an all-time high with 9.7 million Freeview branded products sold, up 64 per cent year-on-year. The Q4 figures also reflect the success of Christmas sales with 3.8 million purchases, Freeview's best quarterly figures to date. Freeview Playback, which now accounts for half of the total DTR market […]
Nagravision has announced that Portugal Telecom has selected a suite of Kudelski Group (Nagra parent) products for the national rollout of its new hybrid satellite-broadband Pay-TV services to be launched in 2008. The Kudelski Group will serve as the end-to-end system integrator for this project. The company is leveraging its entire suite of products to […]
NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, announced that DEN (Digital Entertainment Networks), the new entrant in the Indian digital cable market, has selected a suite of NDS digital broadcasting solutions to launch the company's digital cable service. NDS will provide DEN with the VideoGuard conditional access system (CAS), MediaHighway middleware and […]
TV, loses to the internet as a kids media, according to a study on social networking by Grunwald Associates, an independent research firm that specialises in new media market intelligence. Sixty-four per cent of kids go online while watching television, and nearly half of US teens (49 per cent) report that they do so frequently […]
News Corp will not get into a fight with Microsoft over Yahoo, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said. “We’re not going to get into a fight with Microsoft, which has a lot more money than us,” Murdoch told investors at a media conference. Microsoft has made an unsolicited $41.4 billion bid to buy Yahoo. Time Warner […]
Channel Five has inked a deal with MySpace to launch a youth-focused version of Five News. The deal, which Five claims is the first between a UK news broadcaster and a social networking website, will see the launch of a co-branded daily news bulletin on MySpaceTV. The bulletin, will be recorded each weekday after the […]
French pay TV group Canal Plus has launched its On Demand service. Subscribers to the group’s basic Canal Plus le Bouquet package will now have access to every show aired on Canal Plus and its thematic channels immediately after broadcast until one month after the original air date.