Hartmut Ostrowski, the chief executive of Bertelsmann, owner of RTL, is to stand down as chairman and chief executive. Ostrowski, who first joined the German company in 1982, will be replaced by long-serving chief financial officer Thomas Rabe on 1 January. The company, which also owns magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr and music joint venture […]
Blip.tv, one of the Internet’s largest independently owned and operated video properties, has published the results of a study focusing on original web video. Blip.tv commissioned the study with Dynamic Logic, a specialist in digital insights, to offer key insights into how, when and where Blip.tv audiences are watching online video. According to Dynamic Logic, […]
NDS has announced that its technology is powering the new Sky Anytime push VoD service for Sky Deutschland, the largest pay-TV operator in Germany and Austria. Enabled by NDS’ MediaHighway set-top box software, Sky Anytime provides Sky+ customers with a wide range of on-demand content, including selected movies from their subscribed film packages as well […]
Ericsson is bringing the 2012 London Olympic Games to a global audience of almost five billion after supplying the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) with solutions for the delivery of coverage of the event, and other future sporting occasions, to broadcasters around the world. This premium global sports content will be distributed to EBU members and […]
SeaChange International’s On Demand Group, the European VoD aggregator, has signed a landmark deal with Cablevision, Mexico’s leading cable provider, to manage its VoD services. The deal marks On Demand Group’s first fully operational move into Latin America and will include Cablevision’s transaction VoD and Subscription VoD services. “Our deal with Cablevision is an exciting […]
Netflix is to shelve the idea of splitting Netflix into two brands—Qwikster to sell DVDs, Netflix for streaming – just 23 days after it was announced. The company had already admitted the way was announced alongside price increases was a disaster. Instead, while the businesses will split operationally, everything will stay under the Netflix […]
Mediapro, owner of pay DTT channel Gol TV, has launched a pay-per-view football TV channel online allowing viewers to watch up to 115 football matches a month through any Internet-connected device. From €1 to €14.99 viewers will be able to have access to the Spanish Football League, King’s Cup, Champions League and other International Championships. […]
After last year’s strong growth of sales of premium subscriptions for digital TV platforms, revenues in 2011 should remain fairly stable at around €3.2 billion, according to the “Digital Markets” research conducted by the Smau Observatory-School of Management of the Milan Polytechnic. At the same time, the number of subscribers continues go grow, both on […]
According to Le Figaro, the French government wants six new channels on the country’s DTT platform. It will ask the CSA to open a new tender for channels. In addition to the main commercial broadcasters who will be picking up the ‘bonus channels’ due to them after DSO, other bidders are likely to include NRJ […]
M-Net, a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, believes the country would be far better off scrapping plans to build pricey set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television and instead should use the money in other ways. Karen Willenberg, the broadcaster’s director of legal and regulatory affairs, says instead the country should consider the use of […]