The importance of on demand television over the internet has grown significantly over the past three years, according to Deloitte and YouGov.
Thompson: Sky should pay retrans fees
09.22 Europe/London, August 28, 2010 By
BBC director-general Mark Thompson has said UK broadcasters should be paid to be present on the Sky Digital platform.
Vectra hit by fine
08.12 Europe/London, August 28, 2010 By
The Polish cable operator Vectra has been fined over PLN1 million (€251,000) by the country’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) for “violating the collective interests of consumers”.
Boost for Russian IPTV
11.25 Europe/London, August 27, 2010 By
The Russian company Dalsvyaz has announced that it now has 100,000 subscribers to its IPTV service.
Orange-Canal merger close to fruition
11.11 Europe/London, August 27, 2010 By
Orange is on the edge of completing a deal with Canal+ that would see the pay-TV group take on the management of the Orange Cinema Series channels by the end of September.
Demand for Sky Italia ‘Digital Key’ nudges one million
10.45 Europe/London, August 27, 2010 By
Sky Italia CEO Tom Mockridge says shipments of the satcaster’s Digital Key product are close to reaching one million units.
Levira set to raise fees
10.43 Europe/London, August 27, 2010 By
The Estonian national transmission company Levira is set to increase its digital distribution fees by 30%.
Lithuanian FTTH rollout gathers pace
10.06 Europe/London, August 27, 2010 By
Lithuania’s TEO LT plans to invest around LTL96 million (€27.8 million) in the deployment of its FTTH network, thereby enabling the internet services offered by the network to reach half of the population, or 570,000 households.
Outdoor Channel extends into EMEA
09.31 Europe/London, August 27, 2010 By
It may be a bank holiday weekend, with the usual promise of inclement weather, but Chello Zone is bringing Outdoor Channel to Europe, the Middle East & Africa.
BBC updates HTML5 stance
09.03 Europe/London, August 27, 2010 By
The BBC has made clear its intention to “embrace and support” HTML5, despite recent concerns voiced by director of Future Media & Technology that the emergence of proprietary HTML5 implementations threatened to undermine the promise of the content presentation standard.
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Connected TV Forecasts NEW REPORT. The number of TV sets connected to the Internet will reach 551 million by 2016 for the 40 countries covered in this report from Digital TV Research, up from 124 million at end-2010. The report states that this translates to 20% of global TV sets by 2016, up from only 6% at end-2010. Published in November 2011, this 83-page PDF report is the most geographically comprehensive to ever be published.