Advanced Television

Content

UK online TV revenues to quadruple by 2020

The UK television industry expects both pay and advertising revenues from online video services to quadruple by 2020, according to new research findings from media management company Red Bee Media. The research, which surveyed executives from across the UK television industry on their predictions for business models and revenue streams in 2020, found that more […]

March 22, 2012By Colin Mann

BT Vision deal for UKTV

In the first linear channel deal for BT Vision, the IPTV service from BT, Britain’s leading branded multichannel broadcaster, UKTV, has agreed a three-year carriage deal covering both channel-branded VoD content which will be available immediately, and the network’s portfolio of linear, paid-for television channels, beginning with Watch, Gold and Alibi later this year. UKTV’s […]

March 22, 2012By Colin Mann

Scripps Networks buys Travel Channel

Scripps Networks is to acquire Travel Channel International Limited (TCI), the UK company that distributes the Travel Channel brand in 20 languages across Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. The company produces and commissions original travel programming for distribution in 91 countries. Scripps Networks Interactive will pay £65 million (€78m) to acquire TCI. […]

March 22, 2012

EPL may sell pan-Euro soccer rights

The English Premier League is looking at repackaging the sale of its television football rights away from territory by territory making rights pan-European rights available The move is a reaction to the ‘pub landlady’ case where using a foreign service decoder to show EPL games was deemed legal – though there were copyright restrictions in […]

March 21, 2012

UK tax credit for TV drama

Chancellor George Osborne has announced a  tax credit scheme for TV production and animation firms is to be introduced, in a bid to keep creative talent in Britain. Osborne said it was the government’s “determined policy” to keep Wallace and Gromit animators Aardman in Britain. Last month, Aardman bosses admitted they had been considering moving […]

March 21, 2012

Sky Deutschland: Upbeat on Bundesliga rights

Investment banker Morgan Stanley says that CEO Brian Sullivan and his fellow senior managers at Sky Deutschland are in a “positive mood” about current subscriber trends. Moreover, Sullivan said Sky Deutschland is “quietly confident” of winning access to the all-important Bundesliga football matches. Bidding for the Bundesliga opens in two weeks’ time, on April 2nd, […]

March 21, 2012

Oprah struggles with OWN channel

Oprah Winfrey, not for the first time, is discovering that having your name above the station’s door is no guarantee of success. Her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been on air in the US since the start of last year, but losses continue.  Winfrey assumed the CEO and Chief Creative Officer role last summer. She […]

March 21, 2012By Chris Forrester

Filmmaker Puttnam: “We need pan-Euro licensing and more enforcement”

Lord David Puttnam, President of the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association (FDA), has stressed the importance of continued support and public investment in UK film distribution during this Olympic year and beyond, to allow UK cinema admissions and box-office to continue to flourish. He also used his keynote speech to the UK film industry to call […]

March 20, 2012By Colin Mann

1m see F1 finish on Sky

More than a million viewers watched the climax to Sky’s debut GP on its dedicated Formula 1 channel. However, its overall audience was down 75 per cent on BBC1’s coverage last year. Season opener the Australian Grand Prix had an average audience of 526,000 viewers between 4.30am and 9am UK time on Sunday, with a […]

March 20, 2012

AirTies partners Conax

At the IP&TV World Forum, AirTies Wireless Networks announced today that it has licensed Conax conditional access technology. The first product to launch is the Air 7210 Hybrid Cable Set-top box, a performance optimised, High-definition, dual-tuner. The Air 7210C is suited particularly well to markets where operators want to combine cable television delivery with added-value […]

March 20, 2012