UK public service broadcasters are to produce a set of common HD and SD technical standards for the delivery of TV, as part of a new partnership that aims to help producers and broadcasters ‘maximise the potential benefits of digital production’. The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) is an industry collaboration funded and led by ITV, […]
US telco AT&T has reported Q4 earnings of $19.9 billion, up from $12.1 billion one year ago. It added 246,000 U-Verse subscribers, 90 per cent of them adding U-Verse TV service, bringing their U-Verse total to 3 million subscribers. Reporting a net gain of 210,000 broadband customers indicates that AT&T’s slow erosion of DSL customers […]
Strategy & Technology (S&T), a provider of interactive television technologies around the world, has promoted Adrian Fowkes to Chief Technical Officer, Americas and Kate Chaux to Director of Operations, Americas, and has hired Steven Gravlin as Senior Sales Account Manager as part of a strengthening that responds to market and customer demands in North America. […]
Strategy & Technology (S&T), a provider of interactive television technologies around the world, has promoted Adrian Fowkes to Chief Technical Officer, Americas and Kate Chaux to Director of Operations, Americas, and has hired Steven Gravlin as Senior Sales Account Manager as part of a strengthening that responds to market and customer demands in North America. […]
BSkyB has reported a 26 per cent jump in half-year pre-tax profit as it surpasses 10 million subscribers. Pre-tax profits at the broadcaster rose to £467 million (€541m) in the last six months of 2010, with revenues up 15 per cent to £3.2 billion. BSkyB said demand for HD television services – up by 68 […]
Netflix announced that in the last hours of 2010 it passed 20 million subs with Net Subscriber Additions of 3.08 million for Q4. Revenue for the quarter was $596 million with operating income of $78 million and Net Income of $47 million The company said “More subscriber growth enables us to spend more on streaming […]
The past couple of years have not been good for pay-radio’s prospects in Europe. We’ve seen the Worldspace catastrophe, now well over two years into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy (WS filed in October 2008) and with legal bills still running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Worldspace’s European and other international operations […]
Time Warner Cable has posted a 22 per cent rise in quarterly profit as the company added more Internet customers. The No. 2 US cable television operator’s profit growth and increasing return of cash to shareholders was offset with its continuing loss of TV customers during the quarter. Fourth-quarter net profit rose to $392 million […]
Digital set-top box maker Humax has posted W1 trillion in sales ($1=W1,116). Humax CEO Byun Dae-gyu said that the company achieved sales of W285 billion in the fourth quarter last year, leading to annual revenues of W1.005 trillion. “The sales feat was mainly thanks to our bold approach to overseas markets since our establishment,” Byun […]
CASBAA has welcomed four additional companies to its membership roster: MCOT Public Company Limited of Thailand, Times Television Network of India, Great Wall Industry Corporation of China and Dolby Laboratories of the US. MCOT, a new Patron member of the Association, is a Bangkok-based multi-media company encompassing television stations, including Channel 9 and Modernine, and […]