Strategy & Technology’s work on the MHEG Interaction Channel (MHEG-IC) has led to the connected TV specialist making a significant contribution to the delivery of on demand content to the […]
YouView delayed until early 2012
YouView has confirmed what most people in the industry already suspected, that the hybrid platform has been delayed until early 2012, missing the key pre-Christmas selling reason. Describing its statement […]
BBC confirms iPlayer apps on iPad and Android
The BBC has given further details of the iPad and Android applications for the BBC iPlayer that are slated to make their debut later this week.
Competition Commission sees Color of Money on Sky Movies
The Competition Commission has begun its inquiry into Sky’s movie deals with an analysis that BSkyB has consistently earned excess profits, both in the recent past, and over a long […]
Hulu Plus set to reach a million
The US online streaming service Hulu Plus is on course to reach a million paying subscribers, wrote CEO Jason Kilar on his Hulu blog, “to our knowledge the fastest start […]
Darcey questions online strategies
“Rather like newspapers, free-TV networks have been gripped by this desire to throw all their content online for free,” Mike Darcey, Sky’s chief operating officer, has told the Broadcasting Press […]
Advocate General intervenes on pub football case
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said broadcasters cannot stop people from buying cheaper foreign satellite packages. Julianne Kokott said smart cards could not be […]
Ziggo takes first steps to TV Everywhere
Ziggo, Holland’s largest cable operator, will introduce a number of iPad and iPhone applications in the coming months. The cabler has also announced it is expanding its HD offer and […]
Al Jazeera claims ‘unprecedented interference’
Al Jazeera has stated that their broadcast signal across the Arab region “is facing interference on a scale they have not experienced before.” In a press release, the broadcaster claims […]
Numericable considers Belgian sale
The French cable group Numericable is to put its Belgian and Luxembourg subsidiaries on the market. Banker Rothschild has been appointed to oversee the sale of the profitable division that […]