Sky is signaling a new hardline approach to pubs using foreign satellite services for Premier League football with ads in the licensing trade press warning of a campaign of prosecutions. The approach follows a court judgment earlier this month in which said use of foreign decoders to show Premier League games does breach Sky’s copyright […]
Discovery Communications has announced full year results featuring revenues increased 12 per cent to $4.235 billion and net income from continuing operations increased 75 per cent to $1.134 billion David Zaslav, Discovery’s President and Chief Executive Officer said, “Discovery’s strong 2011 results and operating momentum exemplify the power and universal appeal of our non-fiction programming, […]
Al Jazeera is launching new Arabic digital news monthly magazines for iPads. The video compendiums will contain the best content from Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera Documentary channels, as well as analytical features. Moeed Ahmad, head of new media at Al Jazeera said: “We are delighted to officially launch the world’s first ever Arabic […]
Current TV’s UK operation is to go off air on March 11th. Twenty-three staff will lose their jobs. It had been hoped to fund a rescue for the channel, but MD Jane Mote says that plan had failed largely due to the very tight timetable since BSkyB informed Current TV that its support was ceasing. […]
The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has entered into a movie deal for its VoD portal, maxdome. The deal adds 250 movies from Twentieth Century Fox to the online video store´s selection of movies, underscoring its market leadership position in Europe. Thanks to this deal, maxdome´s diverse offering of blockbuster movies now boasts many new classics. Starting immediately, […]
MySpace has added more than 1 million new users in the past 30 days, taking it to 25 million registered users and representing a dramatic turnaround for the social network that Rupert Murdoch abandoned eight months ago. The website claims that about 40,000 people a day had signed up to Myspace since it introduced new […]
Granite Broadcasting and Motive Television are forming a joint venture, Broadcast Cloud JV (BCJV), that will pursue the development, implementation, and use of existing broadcast spectrum to provide live television, customised linear TV channels, VoD, and catch-up television directly to portable devices such as iPads, Android tablets and smart phones. In addition, Granite and Motive […]
It is ironic that the frontline in the net neutrality conflict has shifted to a country where broadband speed is more abundant than anywhere on earth. KT Telecom of Korea has announced it will ‘manage’ the broadband capacity it claims is being soaked up by Smart TV users. It says it must do so to […]
Red Bull is considering connected TVs as its next major broadcast platform for its host of live-event streaming and video-on-demand content. The brand, which already has a web-based TV channel, redbull.tv, is incorporating connected TVs into the heart of its digital strategy as another key channel to host its content, reports NMA. Red Bull international […]
Google has revealed it will add functionality to the YouTube experience on Google TV, including complete channel pages and the ability to browse by channel. Currently, users can search by topic area, but the search returns individual video results rather than the channels users see on the desktop version of YouTube. Accessed through Google TV, […]