4Music and Channel 4 will both broadcast live coverage of the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize winner announcement on Thursday 1st November. Presented by Nick Grimshaw and Lauren Laverne, 4Music will air coverage of the event from 9.45pm with Channel 4 broadcasting a live, five minute simulcast at 10pm when the winner will be revealed. Dave […]
The litigation between Cablevision/VOOM and EchoStar/Dish has been settled out of court. EchoStar will pay $700 million in cash to Cablevision, and in addition will re-start transmissions of the AMC channels onto the Dish Network DTH system. This means AMC, IFC, Sundance and WEtv channels get reinstated as part of the “multi-year agreement”, effective October […]
Over the past few weeks, the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom has been getting on with the job of awarding digital transmission licences for the Local TV applications. The new channels will transmit on Freeview. However, the big prize, that of content playout, transmission responsibility and accountability for the management of the national digital channel ‘Muxco’ […]
UK PM David Cameron joined the chorus of criticism of the BBC saying the corporation had “serious questions to answer” about why it in effect changed its story on the reasons why it dropped a Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile abuse allegations. “The developments today are concerning because the BBC has effectively changed its story […]
Swisscom has launched its Swisscom TV app, allowing users to watch more than 80 channels and live sporting events. Programmes can be recorded while on the move and accessed later on a TV, PC, tablet or smartphone, regardless of which device the programme was recorded on. The live pause and replay functions for time-delayed television […]
The new PlayStation Store has gone live in the UK, after initial “teething problems” meant last week’s roll-out was stalled in Europe. The store – which offers games, movies and TV shows to rent or buy – is now more visually-oriented and carousel-based to make it quicker and easier to browse. The UI makes use […]
The US’s Center for Copyright Information (CCI) – a collaborative effort between content creators in the movie and music industries and leading IPSs to help educate the public and deter copyright infringement – is close to implementing the Copyright Alert System (CAS) it initially announced in July 2011. The body says its top priority has […]
BBC World News, along with other international broadcasters, are being deliberately jammed by forces inside Syrian according to John Williams, the broadcaster’s foreign editor. Williams said that the BBC’s international TV network was being blocked in what he described as a “blatant violation of international TV regulations”. Williams Tweets: “BBC World News being deliberately jammed […]
A senior Google executive has suggested one of the main factors giving rise to piracy is that content is not necessarily available to everyone who wishes to access it. Gautam Anand, Senior Director, YouTube Partnerships, Asia Pacific at Google, told delegates at the Media and Entertainment Business Conclave in Chennai that “piracy happens because people […]
Describing YouView as “delighted” with industry reception to the UK open IPTV platform since the launch of its first STB in July, Richard Halton, CEO, has confirmed that looking forward, the service is looking to extend the range of on-demand content, particularly in terms of opening the door to smaller content providers who want to […]