Virgin Media and ESPN have confirmed that the new ESPN channel will be available in both standard and HD to Virgin Media's 3.5 million digital TV customers from 3rd August. The ESPN channel will offer live Premier League and Scottish Premier League football as well a wide range of international football and top quality sports. […]
Setanta Sports may be back broadcasting in the UK after the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland granted two new satellite licences.Setanta Sports 1 will be a subscription service broadcasting live and recorded events to the Irish Republic while Setanta Sports is described by the BCI as broadcasting "live and delayed sporting events, mainly at weekends, and […]
Major Hollywood studios have requested that a Swedish civil court impose an injunction against the operators of file-sharing service Pirate Bay. The studios are seeking to stop Pirate Bay’s operators and its Internet-service provider from making copyrighted movies and TV shows easily available on the Internet. The studios are also asking for an unspecified fine. […]
A study by the International Intellectual Property Alliance says that if America isn’t careful, the music industry's piracy problems will hit the movie business. The study suggests that those industries are responsible for far more of the country's economic gains than is widely believed — more than 25 per cent of the US economic growth. […]
With its half year results Modern Times Group says net sales up 8% year on year to SEK 6,920. It had operating income of SEK 822 million when excluding income from the discontinued DTV Group in 2008 Hans-Holger Albrecht, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented: "Market conditions remained tough in the second quarter with advertising […]
As part of its campaign against the suggestion of regulated prices, and reserving more events for FTA, BSkyB has claimed that income from broadcasting plays a "key role in supporting the financial sustainability of many sports". According to research commissioned by Sky, revenue from broadcast rights represents a "substantial" part of the total funding for […]
During the recent board meeting of AEPOC, Europe's Anti-piracy association for the protection of encrypted works and services, AEPOC discussed the "Pirate Bay" sentence in Sweden and the election of the "Pirate Party" into the European Parliament. AEPOC views the "success" of the Pirate Party, which questions the concept of intellectual property and copyright, and […]
AOL will this week unveil the early stages of a plan to become the Internet's largest provider of original content within two years. As the company prepares to spin off from Time Warner by the end of the year, Tim Armstrong, AOL chief executive and a former Google executive, is trying to identify market areas […]
In-Stat says efforts to stop the 12 billion illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) downloads occurring annually in the US have come up short. In-Stat believes content owners and service providers need to shift from content protection to a two-pronged content monetisation strategy consisting of digital rights information management and offering a better user experience than illegal P2P […]
About 73 per cent of Comcast and Time Warner Cable subscribers surveyed said TV Everywhere services — which promise access to a wealth of video online for no extra charge — are an “excellent” or “good” idea, according to research firm Solutions Research Group. However, SRG said, a significant number of respondents also expressed skepticism […]