Sports broadcaster ESPN has launched a new global football app for its Soccernet brand, offering news, live scores, audio and video content. The ESPN Soccernet app is initially being released for iPhone, with Android, Windows Phone and Symbian versions to follow. The new app’s global launch follows ESPN’s UK success with its ESPN Goals app, […]
Sports specialist Perform is to launch its first YouTube channel, bringing live, long-form sports content to the platform. Perform will bring a channel dedicated to coverage from its livesport.tv and goal.com brands so sport from European football coverage to darts and snooker will be on YouTube from next month. The details of what live matches […]
Australian pay-TV operators Foxtel and Austar have agreed to make some of their exclusive content available to Internet Service Providers as part of undertakings to win support from the competition regulator for their A$1.9 billion merger, reports The Australian. It is understood the pair will allow some content to be used by ISPs for IPTV, […]
Digital content technologist Adobe has unveiled what it is claiming as the industry’s first fully integrated video technology platform, codenamed Project Primetime, to enable smooth, TV-like experiences for ad-supported videos across Web-connected devices. This new platform delivers premium video and ad content consistently across all major platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, desktop operating systems […]
Six Viacom channels will launch on the Digiturk pay TV service in Turkey in a six-year carriage deal. The new agreement will see localised versions of the European feeds of six VIMN channels on Digiturk. MTV, MTV Live and Nickelodeon will roll out on March 1st whilst Nickelodeon HD and Nick Jr will also launch […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, is increasing the number of regional broadcasts for its TV3 free-TV channel in Sweden from six to 19 effective immediately. The same programming content is broadcast across all of the regions but separate advertising has now been included in each regional broadcast. MTG has also combined […]
Dublin-based Solaris Mobile has signed up i-enquire, and along with Enterprise Ireland and the European Space Agency, to develop applications for the car and truck market in Europe to tap into S-band hybrid services. This initial deal covers traffic-based information. “The project partnership will look at the development of applications for route planning and real-time […]
The British pub landlady who won a partial victory at the ECJ over using a Greek services decoder to watch the English Premier League, has won the latest legal round at the UK High Court. Instead of using Sky, on which it costs £700 (€824) a month to see Premier League matches, she used the […]
Channel 4 has teamed up with Hat Trick Productions and Widebeam Digital to become the UK’s first terrestrial channel to launch a publicly available mobile app that uses hidden audio triggers to unlock exclusive additional content. Enabled by Intrasonics Technology, viewers can enable the app to ‘listen in’ on episodes of Facejacker to unlock bonus […]
BBC News have confirmed the launch the BBC News app for Android large tablet devices for audiences all around the world. The app is available to download from Android Market. This launch follows the success of the BBC News app for Android smartphones, which has been downloaded more than three million times globally since launching […]