Numericable has added public broadcaster France Télévisions Pluzzvad VoD service to its LaBox offering. The addition of Pluzzvad will make a catalogue of over 4,000 programmes available to Numericable LaBox subscribers from eight days after their linear broadcast. The service will be available via the LaBox Vidéoclub menu and will offer programmes and films under […]
Time Warner’s CEO Jeff Bewkes told analysts at Deutsche Bank’s media conference in New York that his company was focusing on four key areas for future growth. “The first is [that] we’ve made huge investments in content and we’re going to increase our affiliate fees dramatically as a result of that,” said Bewkes. He explained […]
Big increases in mobile and tablet use helped drive BBC iPlayer to a record-breaking January, according to the latest statistics released by the BBC. There were 272 million iPlayer requests in January, up 26 per cent on the previous month. TV requests passed the 200 million mark for the first time. There were 37 million […]
Things were already bad at YouView, the UK’s struggling on-demand TV service, but there was complete meltdown on February 28th when the operation’s Chairman, Lord Alan Sugar (who fronts the UK’s version of The Apprentice reality TV show) and the owner of Channel 5, Richard Desmond reportedly came to near fisticuffs during a regular board […]
Swisscom its expanding its Replay catch-up TV offering. From the beginning of March, it will also be available with 20 HD channels including six SRG channels as well as ARD, ZDF and Arte. It will also no longer be available exclusively to Swisscom TV plus customers as it is now being extended to all users […]
thePlatform, the white-label video publishing company, been selected to provide the back-end video management for Astral Television Networks’ newly launched The Movie Network GO, HBO GO Canada and TMN Encore GO streaming service in Eastern Canada. TMN GO will use thePlatform’s “TV Everywhere” (TVE) solution to enable subscribers to catch-up and watch more of their […]
A new era of television consumption is being ushered in across Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) according to a report by Discovery Networks, which also suggests that supercharged by the digital age, audiences led by the young and early adopters are showing an increasing appetite for new TV services that complement existing […]
HBO Asia has confirmed the Asia launch of HBO GO to now TV’s HBO subscribers. HBO GO, a broadband streaming service, enables subscribers to access over 1,000 hours of popular and critically-acclaimed HBO Original content on multiple devices including PCs, MACs, tablets and mobile devices (iOS, Android and Windows 7) anywhere, anytime. The service includes […]
Motive Television, a specialist in solutions for the managed and cost effective delivery of mass-audience content over any network, will unveil its Mocast solution to network operators at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Mocast enables networks to reduce peak demand congestion and most efficiently manage delivery of on-demand video content, thereby cutting investment in […]
Netflix may not be releasing viewer numbers on its flagship show “House of Cards,” but a new survey by investment firm Cowen and Company offers some insight into how many people are watching the Kevin Spacey political drama. A 10th of consumers with access to Netflix have watched “House of Cards,” reported Deadline. Yet 85 […]