Murdoch rules out second Sky bid, blasts UK
Rupert Murdoch has vowed not to make a new bid for BSkyB after the division of News Corp, saying he would focus his media empire on the US because “the English” had made him unwilling to invest any further in the UK. The News Corp chairman’s outburst came in an American television interview with Bloomberg after the company confirmed it…
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BBC launches live interactive video player
Following a period of beta testing, the BBC has launched its live, interactive video player in advance of the London 2012 Olympics. The player combines HD video with relevant data…
Jul 1 2012 / Read More »Sky raises price of Sky Sports, ESPN
BSkyB is raising its prices for its Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 networks, ESPN and an entertainment content package as of September after a two-year price freeze. Media…
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15 interested in Telecom Italia Media
Telecom Italia has received 15 preliminary expressions of interest for its Telecom Italia Media unit. According to Italian daily “Il Sole 24 Ore”, 60 per cent are foreign groups and…
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AMC carriage crisis
The long-running dispute with between Dish Network and the AMC bouquet of film and entertainment channels has spread to AT&T’s U-Verse service. AT&T said that may cease transmissions of AMC’s key channels this weekend if it cannot reach an agreement over carriage fees. AMC is…
Jun 29 2012 / Read More »Surfthechannel.com founder convicted
A man has been convicted on conspiracy charges relating to his operation of surfthechannel.com, a website offering links to TV and video content. Newcastle crown court heard Anton Vickerman’s site had up to 400,000 users a day and made about £35,000 (€44,000) a month in…
Jun 29 2012 / Read More »Fox exclusives for Netflix UK
Netflix and Twentieth Century Fox have revealed that Netflix will be the exclusive UK and Ireland home to the Fox cult comedy hit, “Arrested Development” to premiere early 2013. Seasons one through three are currently available to members in the UK and Ireland. “Arrested Development…
Jun 29 2012 / Read More »Jiaflix, Chinese Movie Channel launching streaming service
Jiaflix and the China Movie Channel’s streaming movie website M1905 have teamed in venture to stream international feature films, in addition to Chinese movies, using SVOD and TVOD throughout China. Jiaflix has already signed a multi-year licensing deal with Paramount Pictures, whose library titles will…
Jun 29 2012 / Read More »UPC Ireland On Demand reaches 1m views
UPC Ireland’s On Demand service has registered over one million views in its first month of operation The On Demand service is currently available to over one third of all UPC Ireland TV customers, and is set to be expanded to the rest of the…
Jun 29 2012 / Read More »Argentina DSO on target for 2019
Osvaldo Nemirovsci, the general coordinator of the Advisory Council of the Argentine Digital Television System, has confirmed that Argentina will meet the original schedule for the implementation of DTT and complete the analogue switch-off in 2019. Argentina has already installed about 50 transmitters adapted to…
Jun 29 2012 / Read More »Alcatel-Lucent moves Swisscom PVR to the cloud
Alcatel-Lucent is enabling Swisscom – Switzerland’s leading telco – to give its customers the ability to record TV programmes and store them in the cloud and then watch their recordings on any connected screen wherever they are, whenever they want. The service will help Swisscom…
Jun 29 2012 / Read More »Entertainment One joins Industry Trust for IP Awareness
Entertainment One, the film and TV distributor, has joined the consumer education body Industry Trust for IP Awareness, adding support to consumer campaigns on the value of copyright to the UK’s film, TV and video industry. Entertainment One, which reaches a vast range of audiences…
Jun 29 2012 / Read More »BBC live streams on Facebook
The BBC is streaming live sporting events on Facebook, the biggest tie-up to date between the social-networking site and an international broadcaster. The service launched with live coverage from the Wimbledon tennis championships. During the Olympic Games, the BBC will run 24 simultaneous streams in…
Jun 28 2012 / Read More »Sky Italia launches Sky on Demand
Sky Italia has announced it will launch the Sky on Demand service on July 1st. The service is included in the subscription with no extra charge, with subscribers being able to choose what programs to watch and when to watch them. In practice, the My…
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Greece’s OTE selling HellasSat, for real…
The joke in the industry – totally unfairly – is that Greece’s national telco OTE started looking for a buyer…
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Can reluctant split save the news?
Rupert Murdoch said in evidence to the Leveson Inquiry that an unhinged Gordon Brown phoned him and said he would…
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Tesco to retail connected TVs, hybrid STBs
UK supermarket group Tesco is to start selling smart TVs and hybrid set-top boxes under its own-brand Technika label in mid-July, according to Michael Comish,…
Jun 28 2012 / Read More »Hooper: AV industry should streamline copyright
Richard Hooper, who chairs the UK’s Digital Copyright Exchange Feasibility Study, has suggested that perceived justification for illegally downloading copyrighted music or films would be…
Jun 28 2012 / Read More »Thinkbox: Multi-screening encourages more TV and ad viewing
Using a second screen while watching TV encourages more TV viewing and gives people more exposure to – and the opportunity to respond to –…
Jun 28 2012 / Read More »Focus science on DTT Italy this summer
The TV version of the popular science magazine Focus is set to launch on digital terrestrial television this summer in Italy. The channel, available on…
Jun 28 2012 / Read More »‘Hello! Japan’ promises international entry
‘Hello! Japan is a new international channel coming from Japan’s private sector, and is promising a wide distribution outside Japan starting next year. GlobeCast will…
Jun 28 2012 / Read More »France is 99% digital
The CSA reports 99.3 per cent of French homes receive digital TV on at least one TV set, a 7.7 per cent increase over one…
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