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TW Yahoo white knight?

Yahoo and Time Warner have reportedly stepped up talks to create an alternative to Microsoft's offer for the web company. The WSJ reported talks centre on a deal that would fold Time Warner’s AOL Internet unit into Yahoo. Last month Microsoft made a $41 billion offer to buy Yahoo, which was rejected as undervaluing the […]

March 6, 2008

PlayJam goes indie

Interactive media entrepreneur Jasper Smith has reacquired his visual media company Static 2358, which includes the iTV games channel PlayJam, from software provider OpenTV. PlayJam channels launched on France's Canal Sat and BSkyB in 2000, delivering both free and pay-per-play prized-based games. OpenTV purchased PlayJam/Static in 2001. Now available in over 55 million TV homes […]

March 6, 2008

RTL profits fall

RTL Group, Europe’s biggest broadcaster, posted a 37 per cent decline in 2007 profit because of one-time charges including a cartel fine in Germany and comparisons to 2006 when earnings were boosted by asset sales and tax gains. Net income dropped to E563 million from E890 million euros. Sales rose 1.2 per cent to E5.71 […]

March 6, 2008

ITV profit downs, shares up

ITV lost £58 million from the call-TV crisis last year, as tumbling revenues from premium-rate services contributed to a 5 per cent decline in income and a 35 per cent slide in pre-tax profits. The UK broadcaster has reported revenues of £2.08 billion (E2.79bn) in 2007, down 5 per cent on £2.18 billion the year […]

March 6, 2008

US IPTV revenues $13.7bn in 2012

IPTV service revenues will approach $14 billion in 2012, growing from $694 million in 2007, according to “US IPTV Forecast and Outlook,” from Strategy Analytics. Although there are numerous IPTV providers of all shapes and sizes in the US, the landscape is dominated by the two incumbents: AT&T and Verizon, each of which has a […]

March 6, 2008

UK DAB uncertain future

Crisis talks regarding the future of DAB Digital Radio in the UK have been taking place with senior figures in the industry all debating what measures should be taken to ensure the survival of the medium. Proposed solutions include the possibility that Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and Five Live would gradually switch to DAB […]

March 6, 2008

Pirates would heed ISP warning

UK piracy would be massively reduced if offenders received a warning from their Internet service provider, according to a survey by Entertainment Media Research. The report suggests that 70 per cent of people would cease piracy if they received a warning. The percentage of those who would stop downloading unauthorised content if contacted by their […]

March 6, 2008

du Deploys Tandberg iPlex

Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, has announced that its award-winning iPlex UltraCompression IPTV video processing and transcoding system has been selected by du, the Dubai-based telco, as the head-end for its IPTV services. du is the United Arab Emirates's newest telecommunications company, launched in February 2007, it already has 1.5 million customers.

March 6, 2008

RRsat for SVT

RRsat Global Communications Network a provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced that SVT, (Swedish Television), Sweden's public television broadcasting service has chosen RRsat to expand its coverage all over Europe. Over the past three years RRsat has been distributing the SVT channel over its […]

March 6, 2008

Hulu: Advertisers need to be creative

The head of online video site Hulu has called on advertisers to think outside the 30-second box for web video ads. In comments made at an Interactive Advertising Bureau meeting, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar suggested advertisers adopt different models for streaming video ads. Instead of simply repurposing 30 second TV spots, Kilar said, advertisers must […]

March 5, 2008