Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has announced that Viasat Broadcasting has signed an exclusive four year pan-Scandinavian distribution agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. The deal is the first of its kind in Scandinavia as it covers the broadcasting of a range of movies and TV series on Viasat’s Scandinavian […]
An analysis of Europe’s largest OTT markets by SNL Kagan finds the UK and France leading Europe’s emerging deployments. The analysis – focused on France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Spain – notes an increase in OTT service launches in recent months, driven by broadcaster-led catch-up services that are significantly impacting how content is distributed […]
YuMe, the video advertising technology company, and the IPG Media Lab, have published key findings from a media trial that shows significant differences between the attention paid by viewers to video ads online compared with those on television. Using facial tracking algorithms and biometric monitoring, a second-by-second monitoring of cognition, excitement, and stress found that […]
A new survey of senior engineers at over 350 US stations has found that many stations are in danger of being overwhelmed by the challenges of their rapidly expanding online and mobile efforts and that stations need to do a better job of deploying workflow and quality control systems to help them better handle their […]
The recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to raise FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) ceiling for DTH, IPTV from 49 per cent to 74 per cent have been “accepted” by the I&B Ministry. The recommendations have been accepted to bring parity between DTH and IPTV operators with other service providers said a Ministry […]
Canada’s giant Telesat 14R craft, launched on May 21st, has a stuck solar panel. The satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral will be severely hampered if ground-based engineers cannot get the array to deploy. Indeed, this is the second significant problem to occur within the satellite industry in almost as many weeks. An Intelsat craft recently […]
Imagine Communications, an innovator in advanced digital video solutions, hasannounced version 4.0 of the ICE Broadcast System , a significant upgrade to the already widely deployed video processing platform. Imagine plans to demonstrate ICE Broadcast System 4.0 at NCTA’s The Cable Show in Chicago, June 14-16 in booth #ES-55. Imagine’s ICE Broadcast System platform is […]
David Abraham, the chief executive of Channel 4, has called on Ofcom to investigate the control of audience data after warning that valuable information is being “controlled and commercially exploited” by others. Abraham said that audience data is the “new oil, or soil, of television” and that as viewing behaviour becomes increasingly measurable through interactivity […]
Kenyan telecoms firm Wananchi Group plans to launch a pay satellite television service in July to rival South Africa-based Naspers’ DSTV across east Africa after getting new capital injection, its head has confirmed. Liberty Global, one of the world’s largest cable companies, Oppenheimer Funds, and Sarona Asset Management, a Canadian-based emerging markets fund manager, are […]
World Wrestling Entertainment has appointed video ad network Web TV Enterprise to monetise its UK online video content. The exclusive deal is aimed at increasing the reach of the entertainment broadcaster’s TV campaigns. The first campaigns to roll out across the Web TV network include pre-rolls for the 20th Century Fox movie Cedar Rapids and […]