Due to delays in setting up new digital terrestrial transmitters, Slovenia will now switch-off its existing network of analogue transmitters in the first half of 2011, instead of December 1st 2010, as initially planned. In a press statement, Slovenian public broadcaster RTV Slovenija said that it is not to blame for the delay because the […]
The BBC Trust has proposed to Government that the licence fee should be frozen at its current level of £145.50 (E173) for the remaining two years of the current settlement, through to March 2013. This would mean taking an estimated £144 million out of planned BBC budgets. Outgoing BBC Trust chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, said: […]
The New Zealand Government has announced that the country will complete the switchover to digital television by November 2013. The West Coast and Hawke’s Bay will be the first areas to be switched over. Seventy per cent of households already receive a digital television signal through Freeview, Sky or Testra Clear. A $16 million education […]
GlobeCast and Shanghai Media Group have reached an agreement to jointly provide a host of production and transmission services to serve the needs of international broadcasters and to establish a video fibre link into and out of China. The goal of the agreement is to combine the best of SMG’s domestic Chinese capabilities with GlobeCast’s […]
Following its incorporation as YouView TV Ltd at the end of last week, Project Canvas, the proposed joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Talk Talk and Arqiva to build a standards based, open Internet-connected TV environment, is being rebranded as YouView, and has launched a new website – www.youview.com – […]
Television services in Latin America will grow by double digits over the next five years, outpacing service growth in Asia and other emerging markets, according to Parks Associates. A report by the firm reveals the Latin American region will achieve a cumulative annual growth rate of 10 per cent through 2014, compared to less than […]
Thirteen per cent of current pay TV subscribers in the US say they are “somewhat” or “very” likely to cancel their current subscription in the next twelve months—and not sign up with another provider—according to a survey of 2,000 US households conducted by Strategy Analytics. The firm says that “cord cutting” in favour of […]
Sogecable is seeking to stop the subscriptions haemorrhage to its digital DTH platform Digital Plus by giving free TV packages and channels to keep its subs. Those subscribed to basic services are being promoted to to superior packages for free, adding in many cases up to 20 more channels to the initial offer. The company […]
The Government has received the first salvo in what will be a long lobbying war over News Corp’s proposed takeover of Sky. Claire Enders of Enders Analysis, has bestowed a 20-page submission on Mr Business Secretary Vince Cable (assumed to be instinctively against the deal), urging him to step in or face media plurality in […]
Analysis of the consolidated accounts for the first half of 2010 published by the 12 largest private television groups in Europe shows a significant rise in activity levels, says the European Audiovisual Observatory. The turnover of these 12 groups was E17.6 billion, compared to E16.1 billion in the first half of 2009 and E17.6 billion […]