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Collective and Rentrak unveil TV Accelerator

Collective, a full service provider of media and technology solutions for display and video advertising, and Rentrak, a specialist in multi-screen media measurement, have announced the launch of TV Accelerator. They say TV Accelerator is an online advertising capability that enables advertisers to target audiences that viewed their TV advertising with online display and video […]

September 12, 2011

Totalmovie unveils Blu-ray streaming service

Totalmovie, Mexico’s leading entertainment-on-demand service, hasdemonstrated an extension of the Totalmovie consumer service to Internet connected Blu-ray players and Sony’s PS3 game consoles. The service is built on Related Content Database’s WatchWith Service Delivery Platform. Totalmovie consumers can now stream full-length movies to their TVs simply by inserting a Totalmovie disc in an Internet connected […]

September 12, 2011

Eutelsat quality assurance initiative for DVB

Quality assurance of DVB satellite transmissions is to be advanced by Eutelsat Communications, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, in time for the 2012 Olympics. The breakthrough, which was announced at IBC 2011, is part of a global industry-supported initiative that aims to safeguard satellite signal services. Eutelsat’s continued commitment to quality assurance reflects […]

September 12, 2011

Canal+ Afrique on SES

SES has confirmed that Canal+ Overseas, the international subsidiary of French Pay-TV operator Canal+, has contracted multiple transponders and signed a long-term agreement for its subsidiary Canal+ Afrique in order to distribute the Canal+/Canalsat pay-TV bouquet of channels in Africa over the SES-4 satellite at the orbital location of 338 degrees East. Canal+/Canalsat is the […]

September 12, 2011

Aston presents a pilot of a Catch Up TV solution via satellite

Aston, a major player on the international digital television market for 20 years, is proud to be presenting an exclusive preview of its Catch Up TV via satellite solution at IBC. This new solution is a response to growing demand for access to on-demand TV channels in non-linear mode for all households, wherever they are […]

September 12, 2011

Canal+ buys Bollore’s FTA TV

Vivendi pay TV arm Canal+ is to acquire Vincent Bollore’s free-to-air television business for up to €465 million. It says the purchase will help it defend its business against the arrival of Netflix, Apple and Google. Canal+ will intially take a 60 per cent stake in Bollore Group’s TV business, which owns the Direct 8 […]

September 9, 2011

US Cable: Video down, broadband up…

Despite a decline in video subscribers, the second quarter proved to be a strong period for the US pay-TV business, with revenue-generating units (RGU) for cable rising due to the expanding broadband and telephony segments, according to IHS Screen Digest. The researcher, which reported yesterday European cable’s resilience to cord cutting, said the number of […]

September 9, 2011

Intelsat orders two sats for Latin America

Intelsat has ordered two satellites, worth about $500 million when launch costs are included, to serve DirecTV’s growing demand for DTH channels over Latin America. Space Systems/Loral will build the satellites. The order was announced at IBC in Amsterdam. Dubbed DLA-1 and DLA-2, “the new satellites will help us support our customer’s expansion in the […]

September 9, 2011By Chris Forrester

New look, and 6,000 channels for SES

Satellite operator SES used IBC to unveil its new logo, and told press and conference delegates that it was now carrying 5,905 channels and radio networks and that more than 2400 were being transmitted over Europe. SES is claiming the world’s top spot for HDTV channels, with 1,071 now on air around the globe. (although […]

September 9, 2011

Europe cable defies cord-cutting

Despite the rising US trend of cord cutting, the European cable market continued to expand in 2010, with revenue throughout the EU rising by nearly 8 per cent for the year on the strength of double-digit growth in digital television, broadband and telephony subscribers, according to the IHS Screen Digest. Total European Union cable revenue […]

September 8, 2011