Dutch SBS and IceMobile have launched a new on-demand service for mobile TV. Viewers can download clips from a number of popular programmes including the news, weather, show business news […]
Dutch launch for Comedy Central
Viacom’s Comedy Central will launch in The Netherlands on April 30. The channel will broadcast in the evenings only in a channel share with the Dutch version of Nickelodeon and […]
Big Media rally against YouTube
Several Big Media companies are joining together to compete with YouTube, the video-sharing service now owned by Google. Murdoch’s News Corp and NBC Universal said they will create an online […]
VOOM HD comes to Hong Kong
Hong Kong based IPTV operator PCCW and Rainbow Networks have signed a carriage agreement to launch the VOOM HD channel in Hong Kong, the first launch of the channel in […]
MTV veterans to launch ‘micro networks’
Former executives of MTV and Nickelodeon are launching six ‘micro networks’ on the web. Called Next New Networks the new venture will provide streaming content on subjects such as comics, […]
France 24 to launch Arab service
France 24, the French international news channel, will launch its Arabic service on April 2. Arabic programming will initially be broadcast for just four hours a day from 16.00 until […]
RTP contemplates launching pay channels
Portuguese public broadcaster RTP is contemplating the launch of a number of pay channels. Following the introduction of a new television law on March 30 the broadcaster will be allowed […]
Reality check for mobile TV
In the run-up to the 3GSM World Congress, people expected mobile TV to be one of the major attractions of the show.
US CableLabs plans hybrid boxes
US CableLabs, the cable television industry’s technology development consortium, announced that it is working on hybrid cable boxes, which will receive both off-air digital broadcasts as well as tune in […]
US Cable loses out to competition
Although cable television remains the dominant means of distribution for television in the United States penetration is slowly decreasing because of increasing competition. More American households are receiving video programming […]