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Sky Deutschland ups subs

Sky Deutschland has added 45,000 new subscribers in Q3 to reach 2.52 million. However losses continue; turnover was E243.2 million with a loss of E89.3 million, down, at least from E116.7 million last time. Brian Sullivan, CEO said: “In the past quarter we continued our focus on content and innovation, launching Germany’s and Austria’s first […]

November 11, 2010

Eutelsat key investor will stay aboard

Paris-based The Strategic Investment Fund, Eutelsat’s second largest shareholder with a 25 per cent stake, said yesterday that it had no intention to withdraw from the satellite operator. “The performance of the company and its future strategy does not lead us to consider disengagement,” said Thierry Sommelet, Director of Investment at SIF, talking to La […]

November 11, 2010

Viacom disappoints

Viacom’s third-quarter earnings disappointed as the company announced plans to sell the division that produced the disappointing video game Rock Band. Net earnings were $189 million down from $463 million a year ago. The result includes a $299 million loss from discontinued operations including the Harmonix video game unit. Net earnings from continuing operations rose […]

November 11, 2010

ActiveVideo says “Unify on The Cloud”

The president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks called on the media, entertainment and CE communities to agree on a single, unified platform for the delivery of Web video to the television. At a conference in San Francisco ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller outlined how “Platform Chaos” – the fragmentation of countless video devices and technologies — must […]

November 11, 2010

Hulu: Revenue will double this year

Hulu should more than double revenue this year to $240 million, its chief executive Jason Kilar has said, as rumours of an IPO grow. Kilar said Hulu delivered videos to 30 million viewers in the past month and has more than 235 content partners. Launched three years ago, Hulu is now the second-largest Web video […]

November 11, 2010

ActiveVideo President and CEO calls on industry to “Join The Cloud”

The president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks has called on the media, entertainment and CE communities to agree on a single, unified platform for the delivery of Web video to the television. At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller outlined how “Platform Chaos” – the fragmentation of countless video […]

November 11, 2010

Iraqi satellite TV channels get “final warning”

Hot on the heels of last month’s decisions to drop more than a dozen Arabic channels from Nilesat comes news that some 25 Iraqi channels are threatened with closure because they are unlicensed. BBC Monitoring is reporting that a senior Iraqi official in the Communications and Media Commission has threatened to shut down the channels. […]

November 11, 2010

NYCE Networks announces appointment of Robert Heath as CEO

NYCE Networks, a leading provider of innovative Plastic Optical Fiber to Ethernet products, has announced the appointment of Robert Heath as CEO of the company. “We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Robert Heath as the CEO of NYCE.” says Matt Rooyakkers, Founder and Chairman of NYCE Networks, “As NYCE continues to grow into […]

November 10, 2010

BT, Talk Talk win judicial review of Digital Economy Act

BT and TalkTalk have won a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act that paved the way for content owners to police online piracy via ISPs – the so-called ‘3 strikes’ solution. BT and TalkTalk, two of the UK’s biggest ISPs, mounted their legal challenge to the Digital Economy Act in July, warning that it […]

November 10, 2010

Tribunal says REAL can have Sky

REAL Digital, the ‘alternative pay-TV provider’ which says it will launch a DTH service in January next year, has won a case before the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal meaning it must, in principle, be included in the wholesale pricing offer imposed on BSkyB in respect of Sky Sports 1 and 2. This means Real, a […]

November 10, 2010