Telecinco, Spain’s largest commercial television station, has said it will raise €499 million to finance the purchase of a stake in pay-TV company Digital Plus. Telecinco will offer investors 5 new shares for every 14 owned at €5.75 each, the Madrid-based broadcaster said in a regulatory filing. Parent Mediaset will take up its rights, Telecinco […]
The proposed legislation to combat Internet counterfeiting that has pitted Hollywood and television networks against Web giants Amazon, Google and Yahoo over how law enforcement authorities should prevent digital theft. The bill, sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy with the backing of 17 senators, would allow law enforcement to scrap infringing sites by taking down the […]
UK broadband minister Ed Vaizey has declared ISPs should be free to favour traffic from one content provider over another as long as they inform customers. Speaking to the FT Conference this morning Vaizey says the market will decide how far ISPs can go in charging for preferential or guaranteed content delivery and QoS. The […]
BlackArrow, a company that provides advertising products for “new TV” platforms, has raised funding from Motorola through its investment arm, Motorola Ventures. The company says that the investment is an extension of BlackArrow’s previously announced $20 million Series C funding round earlier this year. Terms of Motorola’s investment were not disclosed. To date BlackArrow has […]
ITV blames the after effects of last year’s Susan Boyle boom in traffic for a year-on-year decline in ITV.com’s video viewing figures for the first nine months of 2010. ITV.com’s video views fell by 6 per cent. The broadcaster revealed that average monthly video views have fallen by about 1 million year on year in […]
Vivendi’s Canal Plus pay- television unit faces a continued probe by France’s competition authority into exclusive deals, the regulator has confirmed. The investigation focuses on Canal Plus’s distribution practices for its ‘in house’ channels, certain deals for linked channels, and contracts between Canal Plus and independent channels, the regulator said in a statement on its […]
French pay TV provider Canal Plus had revenues of €3.364 billion for the nine months to the end of September, up 2.9 per cent year-on-year, on the back of a rising ad market and adding 248,000 net subs in the home market. EBITA was €760 million, up from €754 million a year earlier. Parent company […]
ITV has reported an 11 per cent year-on-year increase in revenues for the first nine months of 2010 to £1.45 billion (€1.71bn) and forecast that the TV advertising recovery will continue until the end of the year. The commercial broadcaster said it expected TV ad revenues to be up 10 per cent year on year […]
Kabel Deutschland (KDG) added 127,300 digital premium pay TV subscribers in the year to September 30 for a total of 1,135,300. ARPU reached €13.08 for its fiscal second quarter, up from €11.88 a year earlier. In the quarter KDG added 64,000 internet and phone customers, taking the company’s total to 1.21 million. The company’s overall […]
On the heels of buying the BBC out of its international business, Discovery now seems the favourite to buy UKTV from Virgin Media. The channel line up has been on the block for some time, and not for the first time, but reports say the same old problems in closing a deal persist: the complexity […]