Israel’s Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Authority has fined pay-TV broadcaster HOT more than 100,000 Israeli Shekels (about $28,000) for breaches of its consumer service obligations. The breaches cover consumer protection rules regarding call centre waiting times, and the Authority found that HOT “had violated the provisions of its license regarding waiting times at its call […]
Spain is claiming the refund of €260 million in state DTT subsidies it has to pay back following the EC ruling them illegal, may leave 1.2 million people in the country with no DTT. The Government has warned that the return of those funds would trigger off the closure of “many providers” and meaning breaks […]
Canada’s broadcasting and communications regulator the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has launched Let’s Talk TV: A Conversation with Canadians, a discussion about the future of Canada’s television system. “Canadians have an unprecedented choice of television programs that includes the best of what Canada, and the world, has to offer,” said Jean-Pierre Blais, Chairman […]
Portuguese consumers association Deco has announced it will sue telecommunications regulator Anacom due to faults in the migration process from analogue to digital terrestrial television. In a statement, Deco said it started legal action before a Lisbon court due to the “high” number of consumers interested in this lawsuit, but said it will provide further […]
Internet TV streaming service FilmOn is contesting a decision by a DC-based federal judge to deny the company a modification to the almost nationwide preliminary injunction ordered on September 5th. Internet TV streaming service FilmOn founder Alki David had congratulated rival service Aereo and its founder Barry Diller on its October 10 Boston court victory […]
Not for the first time China is clamping down on the screening of non-Chinese programming. An order issued by China’s General Administration for Press and Publications, says that Chinese TV stations can only screen one foreign programme per year starting in January 2014. Moreover any such programme cannot be screened in primetime (7.30pm-10pm) during the […]
The Alliance for Intellectual Property – a UK-based coalition of 24 trade associations concerned with ensuring that intellectual property rights are valued in the UK and that a legislative regime exists which enables the value and contribution of these rights to be fully realised – has launched an exercise to hear from creators and businesses, […]
Suggesting that the outcome strengthens the marketplace for legal commerce online, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has described the agreement by BitTorrent website isoHunt.com to halt all operations worldwide in connection with a settlement of the major movie studios’ landmark copyright lawsuit against the site and its operator Gary Fung as “a major […]
Egypt’s state-backed broadcaster ERTU has been accused of stealing the exclusive TV rights held by Al Jazeera Sports of Tuesday’s Egypt vs Ghana football match. Tension between Egypt and Qatar are already at fever pitch because of various arrests and the formal banning of Al Jazeera news journalists from Egypt. Al-Jazeera Sports announced on air […]
A UK High Court ruling has forced streaming website TVCatchUp to drop over 20 channels aired by commercial broadcasters ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. The ruling means that it cannot stream the main ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 networks on its mobile TV service, nor can it stream 11 of the broadcasters’ digital […]