The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced four new Corporate Members of the Association, along with one up-graded membership from Corporate to Patron status. The four organisations signed up are Corporate Members are US-based software, services and IT solutions provider Microsoft Corporation; European broadcaster Deutsche Welle; global private equity firm Providence […]
AT&T has been rumoured to be examining a bid for a DTH operator for some time and is now set to pounce, according to reports. The telco is said to have been consulting lawyers in Washington to see how long it would take to get government approval to buy either EchoStar Communications or DirecTV. The […]
Google has announced a deal with Nielsen that will see the TV ratings company provide it with demographic data for TV audiences, strengthening its plans to become a significant player in TV ad sales. In April Google revealed it was conducting trials of TV ad serving along with partners EchoStar and Astound Cable. The Nielsen […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome 3 Italia, the mobile media company owned by the Hutchison Whampoa group, aims to become a integrated fixed/mobile TV provider for digital terrestrial TV from 2010. According to CEO Vincenzo Novari, from the summer of 2010 their network will be converted, allocating 50 per cent for mobile phones and 50 […]
Verizon Wireless has formed an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to offer The Minisode Network on V CAST. The channel offers four to six minute versions of the studio's television shows and allows customers with V CAST-enabled phones to watch the minisodes through their mobile phones. The shows offered as minisodes include classics such as […]
New research from Vividas reveals that issues including complicated set up, slow to download files and crashing content are cited as a major barrier to consumer take-up of watching video online. The research also shows that poor picture quality and incomplete downloads cost a quarter of broadcasters up to £10,000 (E14.5k) in customer refunds and […]
Latens Systems announced that Farmers Telephone Cooperative, in South Carolina, has selected Latens' Foundation CA Solution (FCAS) to secure its IPTV services. FTC has chosen the pre-integrated Latens and Minerva solution, which comprises Latens FCAS and Minerva's iTV Manager middleware. This will run on set-top boxes from Motorola and ADB, to provide FTC with a […]
UKTV has hailed the launch of the Dave channel (which replaced UKG2) as a success, with ratings for the company’s overall Freeview offering up 27 per cent in the channel’s first week. Dave attracted a share of 2.2 per cent in Freeview homes in its first full week after its debut on October 15, UKTV […]
The UK ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) has banned a Sky advert following complaints over the claim that new and existing customers get equally good deals with the company. The advert claimed that Virgin Media’s policy was to give better deals to new customers, stated: “At Sky we think it’s wrong to advertise attractive sounding prices […]
Hong Kong's PCCW is to form a cable TV joint venture with Chunghwa Telecom , Taiwan’s largest fixed line operator. PCCW will introduce its 'Now' broadband TV platform to the Taiwan market by the end of this year. Chunghwa has already applied to Taiwan’s telecoms regulator for a licence to offer the new service.