Four out of ten Europeans households are buying ‘bundled’ Internet, phone and TV services from a single provider, a Eurobarometer survey shows. The survey also found that 65 per cent of people limit their mobile phone calls because of cost and that calls over the Internet are becoming increasingly popular. The E-Communications Household Survey was […]
Solaris Mobile, the JV between SES Astra and Eutelsat, has signed an agreement with Italian publishing giant Class Editori to launch a preliminary pay-radio service over Italy. The system will debut this year (in October) in Milan, hopefully rolling out to the rest of Italy during 2012. The service will comprise satellite-delivered and terrestrial transmission […]
Croatian private broadcaster Nova TV has launched a VoD portal called Oyo. For a fee, customers can view over 100 movies , as well as various TV series, before they are broadcast on terrestrial TV. After registration, Oyo users can also access a variety of video content, shows and series from the archives of the […]
Online DVD rental company Quickflix has signed a digital distribution deal with Sony Australia, as it moves to roll out a subscription streaming service. The deal will allow Quickflix to steam movies to every Sony Bravia compatible device. These also include some Blu Ray players and home theatre centres, as well as Sony VAIO computers […]
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has announced its five-year partnership with Dorna Sports to broadcast the MotoGP World Championship on multiple distribution platforms in 24 countries across its footprint in Asia, continuing its coverage of the premier motorcycle road racing Championship to 2016. ESS has been broadcasting the MotoGP World Championship for 16 years, and the […]
The Conservative party has announced it will now back Labour’s Commons Motion tomorrow that calls on News Corp to withdraw its BSkyB bid ‘in the public interest’. Many coalition partner LibDems had indicated they would vote for the motion and now it will be an official Government motion. Jeremy Hunt, the DCMS Secretary responsible for […]
NDS has revealed that BSkyB has deployed a customised implementation of NDS’ advanced set-top box software for its Sky+HD boxes. As well as enabling the launch of Sky’s Anytime+ VoD service, the component based architecture of the set-top box software enables Sky to evolve the complete end-user experience to meet changing customer needs faster than […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has completed tests of the High Definition versions of its three terrestrial TV channels, following the announcement of the auction for the allocation of TV frequencies, vacated with the switchover to DTT. Italy’s Ministry for Economic Development published on its website the announcement for the free allocation of six digital multiplexes […]
BBC Worldwide is to make Doctor Who available to rent on Facebook – a first for the broadcaster. It will launch digitally-remastered archive Doctor Who shows on Facebook, using the social network’s credits payment system. The broadcaster has selected a total of nine stories, taken from a range of different series, and bundled them in […]
BBC Worldwide’s Annual Review for 2010/11 shows a big rise in profit – up 10.3 per cent to £160.2 million (2009/10: £145.2m). Profit before tax, including discontinued operations, of £201.2 million includes a gain from the exit from a channels investment sold to partner Discovery in November. The strong levels of growth have helped lift […]