Bell has completed its $3.2 billion acquisition of CTV and launched Bell Media, a new business unit encompassing all CTV and other Bell content assets. Bell Media has announced a package of top news, sports and entertainment content for Canada’s mobile providers. Bell fulfilled all regulatory, legal and other requirements to close the transaction, approximately […]

Swiss-based Transmedia has finalised a deal with IPTV operator kt (formerly Korea Telecom) to launch its iConcerts HDTV channel for the first time in Korea. This marks the first time the iConcerts HDTV broadcast channel will be available to the Korean public following the approval of its broadcast licence by the KCC (Korea Communications Commission) […]

Time Warner Cable has bowed to pressure from rights holders and removed several channels from its app for sending linear channels from subscriber bundles to their iPad. The cable company withdrew channels including MTV and FX, after receiving complaints from Viacom, Discovery Communications and the News Corp. They claim that the iPad app is a […]

The new Nielsen State of the Media Mobile Usage Trends survey revealed a big uplift in US mobile video in the second half of 2010. US mobile subscribers watching video on their rose 40 per cent year-on-year. In Q4 2010 25 million people watched an average of four hours and 20 minutes of mobile video […]

Mobile TV and video has always been perceived as a standalone service, but in fact it is the key to delivering an integrated 3 screen service; providing a seamless experience between the STB, PC and a smartphone or tablet device, says Ray DeRenzo, Chief Marketing Officer at MobiTV Inc. In the last year MobiTV more […]

Findings from a study by custom research company TNS into today’s mobile consumer highlight that as ‘static’ functionality such as SMS and still imaging become commoditised, growth will be driven through further demand for social functionality and new demands for video calling, streaming and sharing services. In particular, the TNS Mobile Life 2011 study notes […]

CMMB America, together with Canadian technology provider Unique Broadband Systems and Hong Kong affiliate CMMB Vision, have announced the successful demonstration of CMMB mobile TV signals for over mobile network frequencies in a trial demonstration near Denver, Colorado. The field demonstration is the first ever for CMMB in the US and signifies the Company’s first […]

Time Warner Cable is in a row with networks over who controls the rights to stream live content to consumers’ mobile devices. The spat broke out last week when TWC released an application for Apple’s iPad that lets its customers watch linear programming on the tablet. Users can only watch the live channels while connected […]

America Movil, the Mexico-based mobile operator controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, is rapidly building up its pay-TV business. Already a giant in terms of its cellular penetration, it has a 70 per cent market share in Mexico (trading as Telcel), for example, and its Claro brand has 47 million subs in Brazil. America Movil says […]