HBO Home Entertainment UK has announced that Boardwalk Empire Season 3 will be available to own and watch instantly through blinkbox and NOOK Video from January 21st. This is the first new-release title on NOOK Video since the launch of the HBO catalogue in December, making blinkbox and NOOK the only places in the UK […]
Discovery’s Kids channel is – for the fourth year in a row – the most popular pay-TV channel in Brazil, according to the latest Ibope data. However, if primetime (8pm-1am) viewing is measured then it is Fox’s diet of American series and movies that tops viewing habits. Children’s entertainment leads the ratings. Following Discovery Kids, […]
The Active Channel is now available to watch on subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat, increasing its potential audience by nearly 2 million viewers. The Active Channel which debuted online and subsequently on SKY in 2009, has officially become the most watched health and fitness channel in Europe, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a […]
Turner Broadcasting is to axe 30 per cent of its staff – around 250 jobs – across its international operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Gerhard Zeiler, president of Turner Broadcasting System International, said the cuts were tough but “absolutely necessary” for the company’s future. The company employs around 700 people in the […]
Announcing a raft of licensing agreements, taste-and-mood based entertainment discovery engine specialist is now claiming to be the biggest discovery provider for Tier-1 providers worldwide, and that its semantic approach will be at the forefront of next-generation entertainment experience. Jinni says the deals represent aggressive worldwide growth and the beginning of market transformation from the […]
Turner Broadcasting System, The Warner Bros. Television Group and Netflix, have signed licensing agreements bringing to US Netflix members complete previous seasons of animated and live-action programming from Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and Adult Swim, as well as the TNT serialised drama Dallas. From March 30th, complete past seasons of such great Cartoon Network […]
Chinese online video site LeTV is joining with Innovation Works and Shenzhen Capital Group to establish the ‘Kaiping Fund’ (literally ‘Screen-On Fund’), which will invest up to 100 million yuan in promising projects over the next three years, according to Yang Yongqiang, LeTV chief technical officer. The fund will focus chiefly on smart TV applications, […]
Members of online hacktivist group Anonymous have targeted sites related to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) following the suicide of Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder who championed open access to documents on the Internet. Swartz was arrested in July 2011 and accused of stealing four million documents from MIT and Jstor, an archive of […]
BT Sport has signed a deal with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) to show as much as 800 hours per year of live tennis featuring the best women players in the world, including the season-ending showpiece TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships. BT Sport will show live matches from 21 WTA tournaments across the globe, as […]
Canadian cinema chain and online home entertainment retailer Cineplex Entertainment has confirmed that Cineplex Store customers are now able to collect and enjoy digital home video entertainment with digital content ecosystem UltraViolet. Cineplex Entertainment is the first retailer in Canada and the only motion picture exhibitor in the world offering the service. Now in Canada, […]