KPN, Dutch incumbent telco, is launching a multi-screen version of its IPTV service Interactieve TV. Interactieve TV Online, will deliver 20 channels and interactive services to subscribers via laptops or tablets and will be available to all 416,000 subscribers of the IPTV service. As well as the Dutch public broadcast services, channels from RTL and […]
Dish Network has unveiled plans to deploy a mobile and satellite network based on LTE. The US pay-TV operator said in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission that the network should offer commercial services by 2014. Dish then could sell the service to other carriers or directly to customers, but the company’s full plans […]
Verizon Wireless has debuted Verizon Video, a new version of its video-on-demand application for mobile phones. Verizon Video offers Verizon Wireless customers access to current TV episodes, live streaming of major sporting and news events, and a high-quality video experience, all powered by the nation’s fastest, most advanced 4G network and largest, most reliable 3G […]
BBC World Wide has developed a video-on-demand app for Facebook that will allow users of the website to rent a limited number of Top Gear episodes using Facebook Credits. The corporation is initially offering three episodes for rent – at a cost of 15 Facebook Credits each, the equivalent of 93p. Once rented, episodes will […]
American families have jumped on the home wireless bandwagon and don’t seem to be turning back, revealed a new consumer survey of US families conducted this summer by Opinion Research for Cisco’s Home Networking business unit. The Home Wireless Usage survey found that of the families surveyed with home wireless networks, the majority were using […]
Kabel Deutschland says it grew premium TV RGUs by 209,000 to 1.316 million as of June 30, 2011, representing an annual growth rate of 18.9 per cent. During the first quarter, the Company added 52.2 thousand units, an increase of 4.1 per cent quarter over quarter. The number of Internet and phone subscribers grew by […]
Nielsen has initiated tests with Time Warner Cable, Cablevision Systems and two programmers to try to measure live TV viewing on the cable operators’ iPad applications. The effort is still in “an R&D stage,” said Matt O’Grady, Nielsen’s executive vice president of media audience measurement. Time Warner Cable has said its TWCable app for iPad […]
Spending $12.5 billion on Motorola’s Mobility division has given Google a great deal of publicity in what it means for so-called ‘Smart’ phones in the future. But there are other implications for the broadcast industry because of its ‘Google TV’ product, which some now see as providing an open door into Latin America’s cable business […]
The Brazilian Senate has approved a law that allows telecommunications operators and foreign companies to provide cable TV services in the country. The measure is now awaiting the approval of President Dilma Rousseff. Under the new law, America Movil would be able to exercise the option it has to acquire control of voting rights in […]
Major research groups GfK MRI and Nielsen have each acquired 25 per cent of Media Behavior Institute, which plans to launch a cross-media research service called USA TouchPoints. USA TouchPoints will give advertisers new information about consumer media use, including where they are, who they’re with and the moods and emotions they’re experiencing. The programme […]