A shareholder in Netflix is taking legal action against the video streaming and rental site, claiming it made “materially false and misleading statements” about its business practices and its contracts with content providers. They allege the statements meant investors were caught out by a major share price declines last year. The suit lodged in Northern […]
SES and MagtiCom, the Georgian mobile and telecommunication company, have confirmed the launch date of MagtiSat, Georgia’s first domestic DTH satellite platform, via Astra. The pay-TV offer will be available beginning January 23, 2012. MagtiSat will offer 75 TV channels that include the most popular standard definition and HD channels. At the initial stage, MagtiCom […]
BlackArrow, a global provider of advanced advertising solutions for New TV platforms, has announced a trio of strategic hires that bolsters the company’s multiplatform advertising marketplace expertise and builds upon its accomplished management team. The new appointments are: – Dr. Joseph Matarese, CTO – a senior cable television and telecommunications technology executive, renowned for thought-leadership […]
BlackArrow, a worldwide provider of advanced advertising solutions for New TV platforms, today announced a trio of strategic hires that bolsters the company’s multiplatform advertising marketplace expertise and builds upon its accomplished management team. The new executives bring proven success in on-demand and linear television; social and broadband video; and the advertising and media marketplaces […]
BT is to revamp is BT Vision IPTV service to offer a more personalised experience and social media elements, reports the FT. The move comes as competition in the UK pay-TV has increased with the launch of online movie and TV service Netflix, where it faces other established players such as BSkyB, Virgin Media, as […]
The BBC’s iPlayer received 1.94 billion requests for TV programmes last year. Two thirds of requests are from PCs but the number from connected devices is growing, in December, seven million programmes were requested on connected devices, a 1000 per cent year-on-year increase. Smartphones accounted for 13 million requests, up 163 per cent year-on-year, and […]
Reports Saturday suggest that Spanish infrastructure company Abertis, having sold down 50 per cent of its Eutelsat holdings, wants to increase its position in Spain’s Hispasat (where Eutelsat also has a large 27.7 per cent stake). Abertis owns 33.39 per cent of Hispasat, and Spanish newspaper Expansión talks of Abertis wanting to start talks with […]
Mediaset’s vice chairman, Pier Silvio Berlusconi, says Italy’s planned auction of six new digital terrestrial frequencies is “wrong and unfair”. Berlusconi, son of Italy’s former Prime Minister, said similar DTT frequencies in the rest of Europe had been awarded without fees. He told Italian news daily La Stampa: “An auction would not only be wrong […]
Virgin Media will be making the new Formula 1 channel from Sky Sports available to Virgin Media customers, ensuring they will be able to watch every possible minute of the Formula 1 Grand Prix 2012 season. The new channel, Sky Sports F1, will join Virgin Media’s TV service from its launch in March. The channel […]
LOVEFiLM has partnered with Disney UK in a deal that will give LOVEFiLM members access to full seasons of popular American television from ABC. The branded subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, ABC TV On Demand, will offer LOVEFiLM members on-demand streaming access to ABC Studios’ library of hit network and cable series. Shows will […]