Brightcove announced that it has entered into a company-wide agreement with Channel 4 allowing the broadcaster to incorporate video content across all of its online properties. The first Channel 4 site to launch video content with Brightcove is its new online promotional destination “TV Clips,” featuring clips from current TV programmes, an archive of the best moments from Channel 4′s [...]
Asia-Pacific's first Centre for Content Protection (CCP) has officially launched. The CCP's key objectives are to be a clearinghouse and resource centre for information related to all aspects of digital distribution and content protection covering resource information for the Asia Pacific region. The CCP is joint enterprise of the Motion Picture Association of America and Singapore's Media Development Authority. Initially, [...]
Digital video recorder maker TiVo has reported a narrower quarterly loss as its revenue and subscriptions increased, and it issued a forecast that was more optimistic than estimates. The net loss was $8.24 million, for its fiscal third quarter compared with a loss of $11.1 million, a year earlier. Revenue rose to $75.5 million from $66 million as service revenue [...]
Virgin Media's Malcolm Wall has claimed that its VOD service has grown to the point that its audience is larger than that for Channel Five. He said Virgin’s VoD service had clocked up 30 million individual clips viewed last month, from 3.5 million subscribers. Wall added that this “put it past” Channel Five’s consolidated viewing for October. “By the end [...]
Shares in video search engine blinkx have climbed after ComScore figures showed it had 52.5 million unique visitors in October, and Hitwise data showed it had overtaken Google Video in terms of UK market share.
From Branislav Pekic Rome Italian state broadcaster RAI has announced that its international subsidiary, RAI International, will be rebranded as RAI Italia. The name change is intended to call attention to the network’s country of origin around the world. The change will take place soon and will also see the launch of four Italian channels to be broadcast globally via [...]
From Colin Mann in London Premium sports broadcaster Setanta Sports has launched its first free-to-air channel with the unveiling of Setanta Sports News, jointly owned with Virgin Media. The 24/7 channel will be available on Virgin's UK cable platform and digital satellite via the Sky EPG. It will feature all newsworthy sports items, not just those for which Setanta has [...]
Discovery and Science Channel president and general manager Jane Root is out at the company, Discovery Communications president and CEO David Zaslav confirmed. She is being let her out of her contract effective immediately to return to her native United Kingdom, and Discovery veteran John Ford — who rejoined the company in September after years away at competitor National Geographic [...]
Coming off a setback on its attempt to trigger tighter regulation, the head of the Federal Communications Commission has moved quickly to propose the FCC adopt a rule that would prevent Comcast, the nation's biggest cable company, from becoming larger. Officials said that Kevin Martin notified other commissioners this week of the agenda for the agency's next formal meeting on [...]
Virgin Media's head of strategy is the latest executive to leave the group amid a wider restructuring. Ernie Cormier, its managing director of strategy, would leave in the new year. Steve Stewart, the group's head of customer care, will leave at about the same time. The future of Jacques Kerrest, the group's finance head, also looks uncertain. His contract expired [...]
