A total of 158 million US internet users watched online video in July 2009. This was the largest audience ever recorded, according to data from the comScore Video Metrix service.
German RTL to support HbbTV
The German broadcaster RTL will introduce a new text service using the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) standard. It will launch the service, called HD Text, next year.
Volumes deliver for targeted advertising
Video Interview. Growing subscriber interest in on demand content is opening up new opportunities for targeted advertising.In a Broadband TV News/Videonet interview, Edward Allfrey, Business Development Director, Cable, Tandberg Television, […]
CT prepares for HD
Czech Television (CT) will employ the services of T-Systems Czech Republic and Germany’s Media Broadcast when its starts transmitting its first HD channel at the end of this month.
Revenues rise, but ANT remains in red
Cambridge-based ANT recorded increased revenues, but continuing losses in the first half of 2009.
European consortium plans Canvas ‘killer’
A consortium including Canal+, France Televisions, and TF1, German research organisation Institut für Rundfunktechnik, satellite operator SES Astra, as well as the software and media solutions providers ANT and OpenTV, […]
New twist in TV Puls saga
Poland’s TV Puls has withdrawn from talks with Platforma Mediowa Point Group (PMPG), hitherto considered a frontrunner to become a strategic investor in the station.
Comstar posts mixed results
Russia’s Comstar-UTS ended Q2 with 133,000 pay-TV subscribers in Moscow, or 3% fewer than in Q1 and 10% than a year earlier.
P&T Luxembourg in IPTV HD upgrade
P&TLuxembourg is to expand its 80-channel IPTV service with the launch of linear HD channels.
Bidding for TF1 and M6 channels stalls
It looks likely that CanalSat will continue to have exclusive carriage of the thematic pay channels from TF1 and M6. Bids from the main IPTV providers to gain access to […]