BT has welcomed the ASA’s ruling on Virgin Media’s “Stop the Broadband Con” campaign. Virgin’s campaign was judged to have misled consumers on eight counts, contained six examples of exaggeration, failed to substantiate its claims on five counts and denigrated the industry.
Chinese Television IT services provider China Television Information Technology Company, or CTVIT, has joined the Marlin Partner Program (MPP). The MPP is a technology solutions development and marketing program consisting of over 40 leading technology solutions providers and system integrators who provide solutions based on the open Marlin DRM standard. CTVIT’s joining the MPP is […]
Spanish pay-TV gained subscribers in 2010 but failed to increase its total revenues, according to the latest report from the CMT (Telecommunications Market Commission). The number of pay TV subs grew by 7.7 per cent to 4.5 million, 10.4 per cent to 5 million including mobile TV. Pay DTT, cable and IPTV were the winners […]
Telecom Italia says that merchant bank Mediobanca is looking for buyers of TV network La 7. La 7 is Italy’s third-largest network after RAI and Mediaset, but has been losing money for years. The channel is 77 per cent owned by Telecom Italia. However, the network continues to invest and has a 3.5 per cent […]
A report by Enders Analysis predicts BSkyB earnings will double over the next five years. It says EBITDA will balloon from 2010’s £845 million (€953m) to £1.7 billion in 2015 from revenues up from £5.7 billion to £8.1 billion in the same period. Veteran analyst Toby Syfret believes the earnings will flow as a period […]
Hollywood film studios are to ask the High Court to force UK telco BT to block its broadband customers from accessing a filesharing website, in a test case that could lead to a clampdown on Internet piracy, reports the Daily Telegraph. The Motion Picture Association wants broadband providers to cut off access to Newzbin, a […]
Almost on the eve of the UK government giving News Corp permission to start a bargaining process to acquire the 61 per cent of BSkyB that it doesn’t already own, James Murdoch says that News Corp isn’t by any measure big enough to really compete on the world stage. Speaking at the Cannes International Festival […]
Israel has long wanted to counter what it sees as a stream of negative comment from many of the world’s 24-hour satellite news channels. The plan was to create its own news channel, transmitting in English and Arabic, and a parliamentary vote should have taken place yesterday, June 26th. However, the vote was postponed, with […]
Indian telco and DTH giant Bharti Airtel is reportedly looking to trim more than 2000 jobs. Currently Bharti’s three core businesses (fixed line, mobile and DTH TV) are run as separate divisions even though the retail operations share the same customer-facing stores. The plan is now to merge the three divisions, which collectively generate some […]
Viacom, which owns cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, has sued to stop cable operator Cablevision from broadcasting its shows through an iPad application in the US. Cablevision recently released an iPad app that allows subscribers to watch live TV channels at home for no additional charge. Because the shows are only available for home viewing, […]