STAR, TrueVisions and GMM Media have announced a three-party joint venture for CHANNEL V Thailand, a leading music and youth entertainment channel targeted at Thailand's youth market. STAR will hold a 49 per cent stake in the joint venture while TrueVisions, Thailand's leading pay-TV operator, and GMM Media, Thailand's leading multi-media group, will hold 26 […]
Southern Africa Direct, a new free-to-air lifestyle and culture television channel, will go on-air on the Sky digital broadcast platform on November 26th 2007. This new channel is the UK's first 'Destination TV' channel, providing an information source for anyone interested in visiting or building commercial links with Southern Africa.
The English Football League has secured new broadcasting agreements with Sky Sports and BBC Sport, worth a total of £264 million (E378m), to run for three seasons from 2009/10. The new agreements will see Sky Sports continue its coverage of Coca-Cola Football League, Carling Cup and Johnstone's Paint Trophy matches. Live Coca-Cola Championship and Carling […]
Setanta Sports News has revealed it will launch on November 29th this year.. The 24-hour channel will be available free-to-air on the Virgin Media platform, and also on satellite, and it will cover, in detail, all relevant sports stories from the UK and abroad. Setanta Sports News is jointly owned by Setanta Sports and Virgin […]
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB has increased the minimum amount of new programming which must be broadcast by channels on its Electronic Programme Guide (EPG). In a letter to broadcasters, BSkyB said that from 1 July 2008, it would “only provide an EPG listing to television channels and radio stations which broadcast no less than 6 hours […]
UK broadcasters are preparing bids ahead of a Champions League rights auction that is expected to secure a record sum for football governing board UEFA as the BBC, ITV and BSkyB go head-to-head. UEFA has confirmed that it will issue tender documents for the three seasons from July 2009 after this season’s Champions League final […]
Satellite TV service provider DirecTV has launched NBA (National Basketball Association) TV HD with plans to offer more than 72 games in HD and other NBA programming in HD, 24/7. With the addition of NBA TV HD, DirecTV now offers 74 full-time national HD channels, including 16 sports networks in HD- more than any other […]
ITV DVD has signed an agreement to make more than 300 features from its movie library available for download to own and download to rent via the British online retailer Coolroom. Films from ITV DVD's library will be available to consumers from £0.99 (E1.4) both on Coolroom's download store on www.coolroom.com and on Coolroom's IPTV […]
The BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is to launch a further 30 channels internationally, as well as a high-definition (HD) outlet and an on-demand service in the US, as part of its aggressive expansion plan. The launches, which will be based on four thematic brands – BBC Entertainment, BBC Knowledge, BBC Lifestyle and children’s outlet […]
One of the best-known cable networks in the US is demolishing a 16-year-old brand in a bold bid to become even bigger. Court TV will become “truTV” in one of the biggest marketing makeovers in cable history. The network will abandon Court's logo and its primetime “Seriously Entertaining” tag line in favour of a new […]