Canal Digital has added on demand content to a new distribution deal with Turner.
Samsung partners Teleste for hospitality EPG
Teleste has developed a new solution that delivers EPG (Electronic Program Guide) information direct from the Teleste Luminato headend to Samsung’s LYNK SINC hospitality television management solution.
Discovery offer fails to resolve Canal Digital row
Canal Digital and Discovery Networks are not commenting on suggestions that the programmer has reduced its demands in the carriage dispute that has removed its channels from Nordic screens.
Freetime drives Freesat growth
Freesat added an additional 36,000 homes in the three months to December 2015, representing over half of the 61,000 new households that took the service during the year.
Dauman succeeds Redstone in Viacom chair
Viacom CEO and President Philippe Dauman has been named the executive chairman of Viacom in a move that sees Sumner Redstone become chairman emeritus of the global media giant.
Technicolor withdraws from HEVC pool
Technicolor says it’s withdrawing from the HEVC advance pool in order to concentrate on the licensing of its own HEVC portfolio direct to manufacturers.
YouTube Red originals to premiere February 10
YouTube’s entry into the premium content market will get underway next week with the debut of the first YouTube Red Originals.
Redstone steps down from CBS
Sumner Redstone could be removed as chairman of Viacom Thursday after relinquishing the chairmanship of broadcaster CBS.
MTG’s year of transformation
MTG president Jørgen Madsen Lindemann says the company has been substantially transformed from a traditional broadcaster to a broad-based digital entertainment company.
EBU angered over Commission’s early 700MHz clearance plans
The EBU has reacted angrily to European Commission proposals for an early handover of UHF spectrum to the mobile sector.