French pay TV operator Canal Plus and French telco Orange have dropped their plan to form a 50/50 joint venture between Canal Plus’s TPS Star service and Orange’s film and TV series channels, according to reports in French newspapers. A new plan to see Canal Plus buy a minority stake in Orange’s channels has been […]
BBC’s Vision is axing about 100 jobs in the next year and scrapping the roles of multi-platform commissioners, as part of the wider BBC Online cuts. “The existing multiplatform commissioning team will be disbanded within BBC Vision, with commissioning to be run at genre/ channel level,” says BBC Online general manager Andy Conroy. “This means […]
Revenue growth in digital music dropped from 91 per cent in 2006 to 6 per cent in 2010, according to Parks Associates. While over 50 per cent of US broadband households prefer the computer as their digital music access point, proliferation of smart mobile and connected CE and new cloud-based delivery models are expanding music […]
Saorview, Ireland’s new free-to-air digital television service, has been launched by the Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte. The service carries eight channels and is now available to 97 per cent of households in Ireland. RTÉ One, RTÉ Two HD, TV3, TG4, RTÉ News Now, 3e, RTÉjr and RTÉ One + 1 are all available on […]
German car manufacturer Audi is launching a 3D commercial starring two-time Le Mans winner Allan McNish – marking the first time the company has gone 3D. The two and half minute advert will debut in 2D before the kick-off during ITV’s coverage of the Champions League final on Saturday before being rolled out in 3D […]
A possible merger between the USA’s two satellite pay-TV giants DirecTV and Dish Network is a topic that we have already covered earlier this year. Now, however, we have the fresh knowledge that newly appointed Dish Network CEO Joe Clayton also agrees it is a possibility. This is not to say it will happen, of […]
YouTube has reported a 50 per cent jump in video views, taking the total to 3 billion views a day and it has revealed more than 48 hours of video are uploaded to the site each minute, a 37 per cent rise over the last six months. YouTube attributes the increase in viewing to its […]
Austar United Communications, the Australian pay-television group majority owned by Liberty Global, has said that a $2 billion takeover bid from rival Foxtel had been pitched at an “appropriate” value. The offer from Foxtel, half-owned by Australian telco Telstra with 25 per cent stakes held by News Corp and James Packer’s Consolidated Media, potentially ends […]
Eastern Europe still has plenty of room for digital TV growth according to Digital TV Research. Two-thirds of homes (76 million) were still receiving analogue signals at end-2010 but rapid conversion to digital TV means that nearly 67 million digital homes will be added by 2016. The Digital TV Eastern Europe report forecasts that the […]
Edelman, the global public relations firm, has released findings from its fifth annual Value, Engagement and Trust in the Era of Social Entertainment survey. The 2011 study shows that the value consumers are getting from the Entertainment Industry has fallen by 68 per cent in all areas, and only 17 per cent of all respondents […]