Almost half of Europe is now regularly watching TV over the Internet, according to a new study by StrategyOne for Motorola’s Connected Home Solutions Division, which surveyed 2,500 broadband users across the UK, France, Germany and Spain. Motorola, which uses the term IPTV to cover all of the modes of viewing, questioned users about their [...]
Cartoonito replaces Toonami
May 3, 2007 11.24 Europe/London By
Turner Broadcasting is to replace its UK kids channel Toonami with a new preschool network. Cartoonito was launched last September as a pre-school branded block on Cartoon Network Too and currently runs from 06.00 and 15.00. From May 24 it will become a standalone channel in what is the latest in a series of changes [...]
Sysmedia appoints new sales head
May 3, 2007 10.51 Europe/London By
Sysmedia has appointed Andrew Pons as head of sales and marketing. Pons will be responsible for continuing the company’s growth across international markets. The company manufactures systems for subtitling, teletext, digital text services and interactive TV. Pons has 11 years experience in international sales in the European and US markets. Most recently he was with [...]
Tour de France rides HD wave
May 3, 2007 10.35 Europe/London By
Public broadcaster France Télévisions is to cover the forthcoming Tour de France cycle race in high definition. The event will have its own dedicated channel and be distributed on cable, satellite and DSL. It is also hoped that digital terrestrial capacity will be made available for carriage of the channel. This year’s Tour de France [...]
Spanish Ono hikes fees
May 3, 2007 09.42 Europe/London By
The leading Spanish cable operator Ono has announced a series of price rises for its customers. Due to come into effect at the beginning of next month, they will see the cost of some of its packages, though especially those including pay-TV services, increase by up to 50%. Ono, which lists Multitel (21%), CCMP, Providence [...]
TNTSat opts for Viaccess
May 3, 2007 09.09 Europe/London By
Viaccess has confirmed that Canal+ has selected its conditional access system for its TNTSat entry package. Scheduled to launch on June 15, TNTSat will replicate the line-up from the French digital terrestrial platform. The move is a surprise because Canal has traditionally used the MediaGuard conditional access system, now controlled by Nagra Kudelski, while France [...]
German DTT to reach 80% by year end
May 3, 2007 07.44 Europe/London By
This year about eight million viewers will be added to the German DTT system, bringing the total potential audience to 64 million, according to T-Systems, the company responsible for the building of the network. German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF plan to further extend their reach during 2008 to cover the whole population. During 2007, [...]
Canal Digital to offer SF Anytime movies
May 3, 2007 07.26 Europe/London By
Canal Digital is to offer its IPTV customers a new on demand service from the Swedish film distributor SF Anytime. The new service will offer subscribers access to over 1,000 international and Swedish language titles. In addition to its own productions, SF Anytime also has agreements with Disney, Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox. Films [...]
Users force Digg on its knees
May 3, 2007 07.26 Europe/London By
Can the messenger be blamed? American user generated news aggregation site Digg.com was quick to respond to a request to remove all items relating to the key that can unlock the security on HD DVD discs. They no doubt had Viacom’s action against YouTube and Google in mind. But Digg users protested and within hours [...]
UK advertisers look for mobile phone response
May 3, 2007 07.10 Europe/London By
Sky Media is to offer its third party channels the ability to use SMS as a return path for TV commercials. The BSkyB controlled agency has chosen interactive solutions company Tamblin, which will deploy its mobile interactive ad (MiAds) product. Advertisers use MiAds to overlay their commercial with a call to action graphic. The viewer [...]
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