Time Warner Cable has launched select VoD and live programming outside the home on the new update to its TWC TV app for iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone and iPod iTouch this week. The programming is accessible over any WiFi connection. TWC TV features over 1,100 hours of on demand TV shows and movies from 26 […]
Facebook will be using Rovi Video, a database that includes in-depth information on movies, TV shows, and celebrities, to offer people more ways to express the things they love on their profiles. The integration of Rovi Video with Facebook Platform will also offer app developers a standardised base of entertainment data for creating meaningful consumer […]
Yemen is, by Arab standards, a poor country but its own recent ‘Arab Spring’ political changes have led to an “unprecedented surge” in new TV channels. BBC Monitoring is reporting that there are now 16 private or state-backed channels beaming out to the Arab world from Yemen. “Most,” says the BBC report, “are political in […]
MPAA Chairman and CEO Chris Dodd has called on US movie theatre owners to join the film industry trade body in speaking out against the threat of piracy, warning of “devastating” consequences if copyright law and respect for intellectual property continues to be undermined and unenforced. Delivering a keynote speech at CinemaCon, the official convention […]
According to Giles Cottle, Head of Strategy at UK free-to-air digital satellite Freesat, the emergence of live online TV service Aereo in the US raises some interesting propositions from a service point of view. With Aereo currently in the midst of a legal battle with the network broadcasters who allege copyright infringement, Cottle, writing in […]
Twitter has held talks with Viacom about hosting TV clips on its site and selling ads alongside them, according to reports. Twitter has also discussed a content partnership with NBC. Twitter is looking to add video content in order to get users to spend more time on the site and watch promotions. Building on its […]
A new report for the Associated Press, produced by Deloitte with research by GfK, provides an in-depth study into video news consumption. The report demonstrates the increasingly critical role of video in online news sites and is based on a survey of respondents in UK, Germany and Spain. The research findings clearly demonstrate the importance […]
BT is to undercut the pricing of Sky Sports subscriptions for the £300 million (€370m) pubs market. In response, BT has already offered some large pub chains discounts on its subs, which can often run to thousands of pound per venue, according to the FT. Pub and club subscriptions bring in between £200 million and […]
BSkyB has responded in withering terms to telco BT’s complaint that the satellite broadcaster has refused to screen a TV advertising campaign booked to promote its Premier League and other sports coverage as part of its BT Sport channels, scheduled for launch in July 2013. BT has complained to broadcast and communications regulator Ofcom about […]
Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and French television broadcaster M6 Group have signed a multiyear agreement, which gives the French Network Free and Basic TV rights to broadcast a diverse range of the studio’s film and television programming. Under the terms of the agreement, M6 has acquired the exclusive rights to air a broad selection […]