Danny Cohen has been appointed as controller of BBC1. Cohen has been in charge of BBC3 since May 2007, and will now be in charge of the country’s most popular TV channel with a budget of £1.13 billion (E1.288bn). He takes over the role immediately and also joins the BBC Vision board. Prior to joining […]
Apparently Ofcom members were already gathered to discuss whether or not it will trigger a competition investigation on YouView, when Sky got in touch to say it was submitting a complaint to join those already received from Virgin Media, IP Vision, Six TV, United For Local Television and the Open Source Consortium. Ofcom and YouView […]
At this year’s Media Days event in Munich, where Germany’s broadcasters gather, the industry complained that Germany is suffering from a lack of digital households. For example, Sky Deutschland CEO Brian Sullivan said Germany was ranking last in the EU regarding the conversion from analogue to digital, with cable operators being extremely slow to digitise […]
NBC Universal is no longer selling any advertising for its cable networks through Google’s TV Ads service, ending a two-year partnership. “We’re not currently contributing inventory into the Google marketplace, but we continue to work with Google on multiple projects involving advanced advertising,” NBCU said. The companies originally announced their revenue-sharing agreement in September 2008, […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom is to lose a range of powers as part of a drive across Government to increase radically the transparency and accountability of all public services. The news follows on from proposals set out by the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt in July this year, […]
Apple and Google will claim a significant part of the German TV business in the next few years, according to a study by Booz & Company. “Until 2015, about 30 per cent of the total revenues in the German TV and video ecosystem will go to competitors from the new media sector,” forecast the experts. […]
Find Any Film, an on-demand movies search website backed by the UK Film Council, has confirmed its support for new IPTV platform YouView. The site, which enables UK film fans to watch, buy, download and rent movies, sees YouView as the “first major opportunity to be on a mainstream TV platform and reach out directly […]
Canoe Ventures, a joint venture founded by the US’s leading cable operators, in partnership with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), have announced the “CEE MEE” Project. CEE MEE is designed to capture the Connection, Emotion and Experience of interactive television viewers and correlate that with the Measurement, Efficiency and Engagement metrics for advertisers. This […]
ARD, ZDF and five other broadcasters transmit High Definition programmes free-to-air in Germany whereas RTL, SAT1, Pro7, VOX, Kabel1 and SPORT1, which is starting from November 1 st, can only be received with an HD+ compatible satellite receiver. Set-top box specialist STRONG is now launching its fully equipped SRT 7805 satellite receiver. With its built-in […]
A coalition of media organisations including the BBC is urging the government to intervene on Rupert Murdoch’s bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting. The group, an alliance of newspapers, the BBC, C4 and BT, claim in a letter to Vince Cable, the business secretary, that a merger of the UK’s largest newspaper […]