Following on from the launch of its smart TV and mobile applications, as well as growing global distribution of its HDTV channel, Swiss-based iConcerts has finalised a deal with UK based 3DD Entertainment to produce the first ever live performance ‘augmented reality’ TV format which will be powered by iConcerts ViPass platform. 3DD will […]
Twelve companies have bid for Germany’s Bundesliga soccer television rights for the 2013/14 season, reports Handelsblatt. Among the group are Deutsche Telekom, Sky Deutschland, RTL Group, ProbsiebenSat.1 Media, Unity Media and Kabel Deutschland.
The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) the coalition representing US content creators and leading ISPs, has appointed longtime technology, consumer protection and copyright expert, Jill Lesser, as its Executive Director. In addition the group has announced the members of its consumer-focused Advisory Board and an agreement with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) to implement an […]
A multi-platform animated TV series of the hit casual game Angry Birds has been revealed at MIP. Rovio, the games developer that has built it via facebook, is also considering merchandising and even a theme park. The 52-episode Angry Birds series – each between two or three minutes long- is produced at Rovio production studios […]
Kim Williams, the former CEO of Foxtel, has added to the robust rebuttals of allegations in various publications worldwide that companies associated with News Corporation were involved in piracy, undermining pay-TV industry competitors. Writing to The Australian Financial Review, which made the allegations March 28, Williams describes the coverage as “shameful” and calls on the […]
A+E Networks has reached an agreement to license three new 3D titles to UK satcaster BSkyB. The three specials are, Titanic: 100 Years in 3D, History of the World in Two Hours and Invisible Sku will feature Titanic: 100 Years in 3D and History of the World in Two Hours along with two other titles […]
Machinima, the entertainment network that started using animated characters from video games, now attracts 166 million monthly unique viewers, who between them watched 1.4 billion videos in February 2012. President and co-founder Philip DeBevoise told MIP the audience was mainly 13 to 34 year-old males, who watch its videos on YouTube. The company is already […]
Hulu Plus, the US online subscription service, has confirmed it is now available on seven Android tablets with a brand new, “super deluxe” Hulu Plus user interface. Writing in a company blog, Software Developers Rajiv Makhijani and Zachary Pinter advise that the Hulu Plus app from Google Play can be downloaded, enabling a new way […]
NDS executives are not at all happy at the way events are unfolding. They are especially dismayed over negative implications in the London Independent newspaper concerning a £2,000 donation made 12 years ago to Surrey police to help fund a local ‘crimestoppers’ campaign has been misconstrued. NDS is demanding a full and unequivocal retraction from […]
NDS, the subject of a major BBC investigation for its Panorama flagship current affairs show earlier this week, has hit back. A letter from Dr Abe Peled, executive chairman of NDS, accuses the BBC of deliberately “manipulating” e-mails to indicate that they had been sent by NDS or its staff, when in fact they were […]