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KIT digital restates accounts, CEO bids

KIT digital’s former CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, who left the business earlier in March, has offered to buy the complete business back at $3.75 a share, valuing the company at some $214 million. In addition, he accused KIT’s current management of deliberately seeking to “scapegoat” the company’s former management, and of wasting cash by moving […]

November 26, 2012By Chris Forrester

Pay-TV dominates US home entertainment market

Pay-TV continues to dominate the US home entertainment industry, with 86 per cent of homes paying a regular fee to receive linear TV channel broadcasts, and revenues rising 4.3 per cent in 2011 to reach $94 billion according to a new industry report from research and knowledge-based consulting company Futuresource Consulting. “This figure does include […]

November 20, 2012

Telefonica bases new global video platform on Microsoft

In a significant boost to its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform, Telefonica Digital and Microsoft Corp. have agreed a multiyear strategic agreement to create a new Global Video Platform (GVP) for all video entertainment services across Telefonica’s Operating Businesses. Based on key Microsoft technologies including the Microsoft Mediaroom platform, the GVP delivers TV services over both […]

November 15, 2012By Colin Mann

TalkTalk: 29,000 TV subs

UK quad-play comms provider TalkTalk has revealed that it has connected 29,000 customers to its TV service since September’s launch, with the base growing by 1,000 per day. According to the company, which is targeting 3 million users, the process is running smoothly with very positive feedback from users. The update came as the telco […]

November 13, 2012By Colin Mann

Google Fiber boosts channel line-up

Google has announced details of additional channels available on its Kansas City high-speed fibre network. Writing in the Google Fiber blog, Larry Yang, Product Manager, Google Fiber, said: “Whether you’re searching for stock tips or workout tips; whether you’re looking to check off your holiday shopping lists or looking for shows for the kids; whether […]

November 13, 2012

South Korea to surpass 6m IPTV subs

According to statistics from three South Korean IPTV operators – KT, SK Broadband and LG U+ – and trade group Korea Digital Media Industry, there were 5.9 million subscribers in the country at the end of October. If the current trend of subscriber growth by 30,000 to 40,000 per week continues, subscribers are expected to […]

November 7, 2012

Six new members for Open IPTV Forum

Following a successful IBC, the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has welcomed set top box vendor ABox42, application developer Axonista, testing businesses BluFocus and Digital TV Labs, and technology companies DCC Labs and mistserver.org as new members. These new important contributors increase the breadth of industry support and give OIPF’s open specifications for Connected TV wider […]

November 6, 2012

HwaCom selects Ekioh for Taiwan IPTV

Ekioh, providers of the widely deployed TV compliant Scalable Vector Graphics engine, has announced that HwaCom Systems, a leading broadband system integrator in Taiwan, has licensed its UI engine technology for use in the Chunghwa Telecom deployment. The agreement, which covers both Ekioh’s SVG and HTML5 engines follows HwaCom’s successful competition of Chunghwa Telecom’s open tendering […]

November 6, 2012

BT Vision surpasses 750,000 subs

Subscribers to the BT Vision channel  topped 750,000 after 21,000 new sign-ups. Last quarter, BT’s YouView Internet TV service also launched with its core offering to be its recently acquired football and rugby packages. BT has reported that its pre-tax profit rose 9 per cent in the three months to September 30th to £602 million […]

November 1, 2012

Sky+ adds BBC iPlayer

The BBC’s iPlayer video on demand service is now available on satellite broadcaster BSkyB’s Sky+, bringing the best of the BBC’s TV programmes directly to the living room. Up to 6.7 million homes with a Sky+HD box and broadband connection will be able to enjoy the best of the BBC on demand in a familiar, […]

October 30, 2012