Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel has confirmed that its Foxtel Play OTT service has gone live ahead of its official launch on August 11th. Foxtel Play aims to allow a larger number of Australians access to Foxtel’s programming. Delivered over the Internet initially to eligible Samsung Smart TVs, Xbox 360 and PC and Mac computers, Foxtel […]
Open IPTV platform YouView – backed by a consortium of the UK’s broadcasters and telco providers – is looking to develop the service beyond its set-top box-based launch, reports the FT. Sources suggest that some shareholders are keen to extend service across a range of devices, including connected TV sets, smartphones and tablets. Any such […]
Ian Livingston, the outgoing Chief Executive of BT, has revealed that the telco’s forthcoming BT Sport service has already attracted over 500,000 customers prior to its August 1st launch. Commenting on BT’s Q1 results, Livingston said: “It is early days but we are very pleased with the strong start in BT Sport. More than half […]
In a busy reporting period for the UK’s digital TV platforms, quad-play comms provider TalkTalk has signed up 160,000 new TV subscribers to its YouView service in the three months to end June taking the total number of TV customers on the company’s network to 390,000 in that period. It described June as its strongest […]
On the day his company announced that Utah would be its next market expansion, and online entertainment service Netflix confirmed it was looking at an ultimate market potential of 60 million to 90 million US households, Chet Kanojia, CEO of Internet TV streaming service Aereo, has suggested that one in of four TV viewers will […]
Notwithstanding its ongoing court battles with US network broadcasters who claim copyright infringement, Internet TV streaming service Aereo has revealed plans to launch its technology in Utah on August 19. The move follows its expansion earlier this summer to the Boston and Atlanta metropolitan areas. The company also plans to launch its technology in Chicago […]
Following the completion of the country’s digital switchover, Australian free-to-air television is planning its next technological evolution combining broadcasting and the Internet. Freeview Australia – the industry grouping comprising free-to-air licensees Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Service, Seven Network, Nine Network, Network Ten, Prime Media Group and Southern Cross Broadcasting – is working with the […]
Aussie pay-TV carrier Foxtel will launch its Play service in August. Foxtel’s new IPTV service will be priced from A$25 per month, close to half the cost of basic video package and about one-quarter of its average revenue per user (ARPU) of about A$100 per month. The Play option will allow viewers to watch programs […]
Google is taking a fresh look at launching an online pay-TV service, reports The Wall Street Journal, which suggests that it has recently approached media companies about licensing their content for an Internet TV service that would stream traditional TV programming. Such an initiative would pitch Google against mooted plans from Intel, Sony and Apple. […]
The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has drawn to a close the action taken against online entertainment service Aereo, with Fox, one of the parties to the action, suggesting it may pursue the matter in a higher court. In April, a panel of judges for the 2nd Circuit ruled that Aereo […]