Dr Abe Peled was recently promoted to Executive Chairman at NDS, and used his annual IBC press lunch to introduce his new CEO Dave Habiger. Peled said 2011 was proving to be a very important year for the television distribution business. “Topics like OTT seeming to be making headlines everywhere. We have been talking for […]
Vivendi pay TV arm Canal+ is to acquire Vincent Bollore’s free-to-air television business for up to €465 million. It says the purchase will help it defend its business against the arrival of Netflix, Apple and Google. Canal+ will intially take a 60 per cent stake in Bollore Group’s TV business, which owns the Direct 8 […]
SeaChange International’s fiscal second-quarter earnings have fallen as results faced a difficult comparison to a prior-year period boosted by a $3.3 million income tax benefit. For the quarter ended July 31, SeaChange reported a profit of $787,000, down from a prior-year profit of $3.53 million. Revenue slipped 3 per cent to $50.1 million. Revenue from […]
Freesat has sold its 2 millionth unit, far exceeding original sales projections made when the company launched three years ago, and taking gross retail sales to nearly £1 billion since launch in 2008. According to Freesat customer research, a record 47 per cent of its customers have come from Sky households so far in 2011. […]
The normally quiet summer has been anything but this year. It has been full of Events. As a British Prime Minister from what we used to call ‘the ruling class’, replied when asked what caused him most trouble when in office: “Events, dear boy, events”. On that basis it has also been a bad summer […]
PHXX, a platform development company with expertise in OTT, new media, and gaming services, has received funding to further enhance their ReachOTT platform. Alfalak Electronic Equipment & Supplies, a provider of technology-based end-to-end solutions in the Middle East, has invested $250,000 into PHXX to support this OTT initiative. PHXX developed the ReachOTT platform to provide […]
Polish regulator UOKiK has cleared the acquisition of cable operator Aster by UPC Poland – with conditions. UPC will be instructed to sell parts of the Aster network in Warsaw and Krakow within 18 months. This covers networks in buildings where both operators already provide services. The regulator noted that in some areas the two […]
The UK government’s largest ever spectrum auction has been delayed, with the multibillion pound sell-off now expected in the second quarter of next year at the earliest. Ofcom had been expected to publish the terms of the auction this month, but after veiled threats of legal action from a number of carriers including O2, the […]
Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission (FTC) has licensed a record 146 new digital terrestrial channels in the 10 months to June. The new services bring the total authorised DTT channels to 224. Mexico is scheduled to switch off its analogue transmissions in 2015, although this decision – decreed by the FTC – is under examination by […]
Sony Corp has picked a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, previously director of the US National Cyber Security Center, will become senior vice […]