
The Italian competition authority has found no evidence that Sky Italia’s acquisition of UEFA Champions League 2012-2015) and FIFA World Cup (2012-2015) TV rights represented an abuse of a dominant position.
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The Italian competition authority has found no evidence that Sky Italia’s acquisition of UEFA Champions League 2012-2015) and FIFA World Cup (2012-2015) TV rights represented an abuse of a dominant position.

Sky Italia has launched its new dedicated Formula1 channel that adds interactive screens to the broadcaster’s coverage of the 2013 championship.
Swisscom has said that the number of IPTV connections increased year-on-year by 183,000 or 30.1% to 791,000 (+63,000 in the fourth quarter).

Sky Italia is launching a series of innovations to its Sky Go service. Launched in Italy nine months ago, Sky Go has already been activated by 1.1 million subscribers.

Gains on the sale of News Corp’s remaining interest in NDS and the growth of its channels business was enough to compensate for declines in publishing and satellite operations.

It may be little surprise to hear that pay-TV companies have customers with higher incomes than average.
MIPCOM 2012 – Cannes. Sky Italia has chosen HyperTV and Civolution for the first ever social media gaming experience related to X Factor 2012.
Sky Italia has reiterated that it has no plans to buy Telecom Italia Media, the content division of the Italian telco that includes the terrestrial channel La7.
The most recent non-proprietary video compression standard, High-Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), also known as H.265, was placed into final draft for ratification in January 2013 and is expected to become the video standard of choice for the next decade. … [Read More...]
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