The EBU has called on delegates at the World Radiocommunication Conference at the ITU in Geneva to draft a treaty to tackle the issue of ‘Satellite uplink jamming’ – basically when states block transmissions to prevent messages getting out, or unwelcome signals coming in. Satellite uplink jamming contravenes Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of […]
FremantleMedia Enterprises has announced a digital licensing agreement with Netflix to bring a raft of classic comedy and drama titles to Netflix members across the UK and Ireland. Netflix has acquired 115 hours of FME’s extensive programming catalogue including Australian crime series, The Strip; and popular drama, Falcon Beach.
The delayed SES-4 satellite will now launch on January 29th. The initial planned launch was delayed because of problems with Russian rocket launchers. This satellite, the largest-ever in the SES fleet, will be launched by International Launch Services using a Russian Proton M rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The satellite and its rocket stands 58 […]
Avail-TVN, the independent digital media services company in North America, has announced that Bermuda CableVision has become the latest CALA-based service provider to move its VoD service to Avail-TVN. Bermuda CableVision is the island’s largest provider of digital cable TV and is the only supplier of high-definition TV in Bermuda. Avail-TVN is delivering VoD content […]
Linear TV viewing in the UK matched the record level it set in 2010, with commercial TV increasing its share of total viewing to 64 per cent in 2011, according to Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK. The average viewer watched 4 hours, 2 minutes of linear TV a day in […]
The Regional Government of Cantabria, north of Spain, has been ordered to pay €3.5 million to SES Iberica, the subsidiary company in Spain of SES, after being found guilty by a local Court of unilaterally breaking the contract to extend the DTT service to the Region through satellite distribution. SES had claimed damages of almost […]
News Corp is making a play for the 50 million-strong Hispanic market in the US with plans to launch a free-to-air Spanish-language television network this autumn in partnership with RCN Television Group, the Colombian broadcaster. Branded ‘MundoFox’, it will go up against Univision, the private equity-owned market leader in Spanish language television in the US, […]
The South African government will not meet its self-imposed deadline of April 2012 to switch on digital terrestrial television, says communications minister Dina Pule, who now expects services will be only be launched commercially in the third quarter of the year. Pule was speaking at her first media briefing since being appointed by President Jacob […]
BBC Worldwide has selected Comcast Media Center (CMC) to deliver programming from CBeebies, its Spanish-language TV channel for pre-school children, via the CMC’s VoD content distribution platform, the two companies have confirmed. CMC’s VoD distribution encompasses cable systems across multiple MSOs serving more than 56 million VoD-enabled households in the US and Canada.
Italy’s government has called a halt for the time being on the sale – or otherwise – of spare digital frequencies. The probability is that Italy will start charging for these new operating TV licences, but Industry Minister Corrado Passera told parliament on January 20th that he would suspend any decision for 90 days to […]