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Paramount movie clips on Facebook

Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom, will become the first major studio to make clips from thousands of its movies available for use on the Internet. Paramount is teaming with the Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to introduce the VooZoo application on Facebook. The service will give Facebook users access to footage from thousands of movies […]

March 12, 2008

MTG sells DTV to CTC

Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group is selling national Russian free-to-air television network 'DTV Group' to CTC Media for approximately $395 million on cash. MTG owns 39.5 per cent of CTC Media, which is Russia's largest independent television broadcaster. The transaction is subject to approval by the relevant regulatory authorities.

March 12, 2008

GCap sticking with digital radio?

Plans to abandon digital radio technology by GCap Media, Britain's largest commercial radio group, have been put on ice because of a takeover bid. GCap Media, which is the subject of a takeover approach from Global Radio, last month announced plans to stand down from the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) platform as part of its […]

March 12, 2008

DTT in 30% of Spanish homes

From David Del Valle in Madrid According to the latest report from Pro DTT Association Impulsa TDT 29.2 per cent Spanish homes (there are 15 million TV households in the country) already have access to DTT, following the sale of 1.37 million DTT tuners last Christmas, up 48 per cent, reaching a total of 8.81 […]

March 12, 2008

Highwinds raises $55m

Highwinds Network Group, a multi-platform IP services and content distribution provider, has closed a $55 million round of equity financing led by General Catalyst Partners and Alta Communications. The financing will fund the infrastructure build-out of Highwinds' RollingThunder network, including a content delivery network offering. Highwinds' RollingThunder network was unveiled in conjunction with an announcement […]

March 12, 2008

Viaccess to buy Orca

France Telecom subsidiary Viaccess has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Israel’s Orca Interactive for $21.4 million. Orca Interactive, a subsidiary of telecom group Emblaze, develops software for IPTV. It has gross assets of $15.9 million and posted a net loss of $4.3 million in 2007. Emblaze said the deal is worth about 59 cents […]

March 11, 2008

Amino to deploy Caribbean IPTV

Amino, IPTV platform supplier, has confirmed that Telefonia Bonairiano (Telbo), the Dutch Caribbean’s telecommunications company, has selected the AmiNET125 multi-codec Set-Top-Box to power "mitv", the first IPTV service in the Caribbean island of Bonaire over ADSL2+ network.

March 11, 2008

Entriq acquiring DayPort

Entriq, the CA / DRM company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DayPort, a player in video publishing, content, workflow, and syndication solutions.

March 11, 2008

US cablecos combine on ads

America's six largest cable companies are making plans for a jointly owned company that would allow national advertisers to buy customised ads and interactive ads across the companies' systems. For the last six months, executives from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Cox Communications, Charter Communications and Bright House Networks have been planning the move. Stephen […]

March 11, 2008

Open IPTV Forum end-to-end Architecture specs

Following the first version of the Service and Platform Requirements document, for both Managed and Open Internet models released in the autumn of 2007. The Open IPTV Forum has released the first Architecture specification. The agreed Architecture specification is publicly available via the Open IPTV Forum home page and the Service and Platform requirements via […]

March 11, 2008