An investor consortium led by Criterion Capital Partners, together with financial funds and Hollywood investors, has bought SeeSaw.com, the UK on-demand TV service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but former owner Arqiva is retaining a 25 per cent stake in the video platform. SeeSaw’s new chairman will be Michael Jackson, who previously served […]
Orange has signed an exclusive partnership with Dailymotion to deliver an integrated-advertising solution targeting specific audiences and localised content on Dailymotion’s video-sharing platform. Dailymotion’s video sharing platform reaches 114 million unique visitors a month worldwide, and 20,000 videos are added daily. The Orange Advertising Network will have the exclusivity to monetise and represent Dailymotion’s video […]
Netflix services have made their debut on the Nintendo eShop. The free downloadable application allows any Netflix member with an unlimited streaming plan to stream movies and TV shows instantly on their 3DS. Although Japan and Europe both got the new Nintendo Video service earlier in the week – allowing users to watch episodes of […]
Spotify, the Swedish streaming music service, has finally announced that it will launch in the world’s biggest music market, the US. Spotify’s US launch has been dependent on signing deals with the four largest record labels – Universal, Sony, EMI and Warner Music – though Warner is understood to have only completed the deal this […]
Netflix and NBC Universal have announced a multi-year renewal of their licensing agreement expanding the selection of non-exclusive NBC film and TV library titles available to watch instantly streaming from Netflix. Programming under the deal includes prior-season series across multiple NBC hits “The Office,” “30 Rock” and “Parenthood.” All future seasons of these shows will […]
LoveFilm has struck a five-year exclusive deal with Entertainment One UK (eOne), which will bring movies including The Twilight Saga to the company’s online movie-streaming service. The tie-up means LoveFilm members can watch new and up-and-coming releases from the independent film distributor’s catalogue via LoveFilm’s distribution platform. All LoveFilm members that have a premium subscription […]
A BBC overseas channel, BBC Persian TV, has again been jammed by illegal signals from Iran. A BBC statement says the interference started on Tuesday morning on the Eutelsat ‘Hot Bird’ satellite. “The BBC and Eutelsat condemn this deliberate interference,” said a press statement. Eutelsat is also formally complaining to the French representative (ANFR) signatory […]
In Northern Europe, France 24 has doubled its distribution in Finland following its launch on the country’s two main cable offers: on the new offer resulting from the Welho and DNA merger (total 630,000 subscribers), as well as on Elisa (330,000 subscribers). Having obtained a licence to broadcast on DTT in the Helsinki region, the […]
As MPs prepared to debate a motion calling on News Corp to reconsider its BSkyB bid, it does just that and pre-empts them. Chase Carey, Deputy Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer at News Corp, commented: “We believed that the proposed acquisition of BSkyB by News Corporation would benefit both companies but it has become […]
Keith Rupert Murdoch has seen eighty summers, but few will have had interludes as hot and uncomfortable as this one. Not that he seems worried – snatched pictures show a grinning figure in a range of bizarre ‘Sod you, I’m an old man’ hats, as he’s chauffeured around London sweeping up after some of his […]