Pay TV subscriptions in Venezuela hit 2.57 million, as at the end of March this year. Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Commission said that according to preliminary figures – which might well grow – some 45,000 net new subs have been added since December 2010. However, this is well down on the net 232,000 who signed up […]
HBO Central Europe together with leading cable and broadband Internet providers SBB – Serbia Broadband (Serbia), Telemach _irokopasovne komunikacije (Slovenia), and Telemach d.o.o. (Bosnia and Herzegovina), has launched HBO GO, the internet streaming service available to HBO subscribers with a broadband internet connection in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. HBO GO offers the latest […]
Intelsat’s governmental services division (IGS) has won a major contract to supply TV to the US armed forces serving overseas. The deal sees Intelsat having to supply satellite connectivity to the USA’s Armed Forces Radio & TV Service (AFTRS). “The AFRTS provides multi-channel, broadcast-quality radio and television programmes to military forces and their families stationed […]
US pay-TV service DirecTV has started field trial testing for its DirecTV Home Media Centre aimed at providing customers with a ‘receiver-less’ solution for many TVs in their homes. The launch of field trial testing for DirecTV’s model HR34 RVU-enabled server, the heart of the DirecTV Home Media Centre, marks a major milestone both for […]
Since the beginning of 2011, more than 1 million new households have installed a stand-alone DTT box in their home, while nearly 2.8 million DTT receivers (including integrated TVs and decoders) have been sold. Of the total receivers sold between January and March, about 62 per cent (1.7 million) are integrated, 33 per cent are […]
Mediaset-controlled TV channel Tele 5 has launched a VOD Internet service, called Telecinco Cinema. Viewers will be able to hire films and TV movies with payments made through SMS messages or telephone calls. The service will cost €1.42 per each film enabling users to watch it as many times as they want during 24 hours. […]
Turkey’s Cukurova Holdings, which also controls pay-TV platform Digiturk, is looking to sell a 49 per cent stake in its popular general entertainment channel Show TV. Reports suggest that the stake could be sold to US private equity players in order to reduce Cukurova’s heavy tax debts. KKR and Texas Pacific are both named as […]
justAD TV the non-linear advertising specialist, has partnered with digital marketing solutions provider Ybrant Digital to help platform owners immediately generate new revenues from today’s multi-screen, Connected TV world. Based on justAd.TV’s multi-device TV advertising platform, the new partnership will enable platform owners to use Ybrant Digital’s media sales experience and global network to generate […]
SeaChange International has unveiled its new generation SeaChange Infusion Advanced Advertising Platform to help video operators manage centralised ad operations and scale to 150,000 insertable channels and millions of ad assets. The platform’s foundation is the new SeaChange Infusion Linear Advertising Server, shipping later this year, which enables linear ad insertion in an open plug-and-play […]
BSkyB head of 3D John Cassy said at Informa’s 3D World Forum that intends “to do for 3D what it has done for HD.” He said Sky would roll out 3D in the same way it has done with HD and would propel UK to be a world leader in the technology. But he said […]