In a rebuttal of Ofcom’s recommendation to Department of Culture Media Sport to refer to the Competition Commission its bid for BSkB, News Corporation has accused the regulator of producing a biased, seriously flawed and ‘tainted’ report. The Ofcom report and News Corporation’s submission to DCMS have been published today as the Secretary of State, […]
Sky Deutschland AG plans to introduce a live television application for tablet computers powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system this year, following it availability on Apple iPad. Chief Executive Officer Brian Sullivan told a conference Sky is evaluating the timetable for a tablet app for Android and possibly other operating systems. The company’s Sky […]
There’s about to be some spectacular growth in the number of HDTV channels available to European viewers says Screen Digest (SD). It says HD channel growth is continuing strongly and is now reaching a level of maturity where genres that once would have been considered niche are becoming central to the HDTV content mix. Indeed, […]
Kuwait Projects Co (KIPCO) says there will not be an IPO this year for its Middle East pay TV Orbit Showtime Network. Mr Faisal al-Ayyar, Kipco’s CEO and vice-chairman, was quoted in an interview with Kuwaiti daily newspaper al-Watan, saying KIPCO would present the issue to shareholders and seek their approval prior to considering an […]
BSkyB releases its latest set of results on January 27th and analysts are forecasting further growth of some 150,000 net new customers. Numis Securities’ Paul Richards expects the pay-TV broadcaster to have moved well beyond the 10m subscriber mark achieved last November, and with HDTV now performing strongly for the company Numis expects pre-tax profits […]
BeeSmart, the acknowledged interactive TV solution provider for service operators and Ekioh, a developer of compelling end user interface engines, are proud to announce a fast growing number of IPTV users on SVG based client technology. The companies report that there are already over 130,000 end-users running BeeSmart middleware clients and the Ekioh SVG UI […]
Another broadcaster has admitted suffered a major hack of its transmissions. This time it’s Austria’s public broadcaster ORF use of the Cryptoworks encryption system, initially developed by Philips but now owned by Irdeto. Widespread hacking of ORF’s AustriaSat HDTV transmissions was reported at the end of December, and earlier in January on German and Austrian […]
The UK media buyer STRATA’s quarterly survey of major advertising firms found that for the first time since the survey began in 2008, over half of the respondents expressed an increase in business. The survey also discovered that digital advertising demand has decreased, with mobile advertising not yet living up to industry hype. Over the […]
IP Vision has revealed that leading health and fitness channel Fitness TV is the latest addition to its FetchTV platform, the UK’s first commercial hybrid OTT/IPTV service for consumers. Fitness TV is available immediately to FetchTV viewers for just £1.99 per month as well as via pay-per-view on demand. Fitness TV is the UK’s first […]
Viewster, the premium digital movie and TV content service from DIVA AG, has been announced as the first global provider of premium VOD content to Boxee. Viewster will be Boxee’s first global premium VOD provider, and also its first 3D provider outside the US “Right now, Boxee is one of the hottest and most exciting […]