UK broadcast advice specialist, Canis Media, has formally notified Ofcom of an expression of interest in bidding for the Local TV ‘MuxCo’ licence through the newly formed new company, Comux UK Limited. Comux UK will be structured to ensure that the maximum possible return on the value of the gifted capacity is invested in local […]
Prisa TV-owned digital DTH platform Canal Plus (former Digital Plus) continues losing pay-TV clients, despite a multiplatform strategy aimed at stemming the flow. The company lost 17,000 clients in the last quarter of 2011 and ended the year with 1.84 million subscribers including 82,247 clients from Canal Plus through other platforms, such as IPTV and […]
Limelight Networks is pleased to announce the strengthening of its European team with the appointment of Thom Poole as International Marketing Director. Poole, a professional, Chartered Marketer, brings more than 25 years’ international and digital marketing experience in the SaaS, Telecom and training sectors to Limelight. He is responsible for all marketing operations in Limelight’s […]
Australian pay-TV operators Foxtel and Austar have agreed to make some of their exclusive content available to Internet Service Providers as part of undertakings to win support from the competition regulator for their A$1.9 billion merger, reports The Australian. It is understood the pair will allow some content to be used by ISPs for IPTV, […]
Silicon and software solutions provider Entropic Communications has been selected as the successful bidder to acquire Trident Microsystems’ set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) assets for a purchase price of $65 million, a $10 million dollar increase to its original offer. Confirmation follows the completion of an auction, and the final transaction is subject to approval […]
The British pub landlady who won a partial victory at the ECJ over using a Greek services decoder to watch the English Premier League, has won the latest legal round at the UK High Court. Instead of using Sky, on which it costs £700 (€824) a month to see Premier League matches, she used the […]
Pace has appointed a new chief financial officer as chairman Allan Leighton continues his overhaul of the company. The world’s biggest maker of STBs has confirmed that Roddy Murray, the former CFO at plumbing group BSS, will join the company on March 6th. He replaces Stuart Hall, who is standing down after five years at […]
TiVo is planning to extend its digital TV technology expertise beyond the DVR. Commenting on the company’s Q4 results, Tom Rogers, TiVo President and CEO, said the advanced television services specialist was continuing to make strides to bring the look and feel of the TiVo user interface to other platforms beyond the DVR. “To that […]
The news earlier this week that TiVo and Pace had signed a strategic partnership was amplified February 23 by comments made by TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers while discussing the company’s Q4 results. Addressing the new Pace relationship, Rogers, said: “A significant part of the development in any one of these projects is the […]
South Africa’s TopTV, owned by On Digital Media (in which SES Astra has an investment position), is under pressure. CEO Vino Govender left the company early in February ahead of a restructuring although remains as a shareholder. Eddie Mbalo, the broadcaster’s chairman, has assumed the CEO role until a replacement for Govender is sourced. ODM, […]