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YFE and Motors TV team up with Alterna’TV for Americas
Eutelsat-owned channel distributor Alterna’TV is to distribute German kids channel provider Your Family Entertainment’s (YFE)…
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BBC3 controller: channel not for sale
BBC Three controller Damian Kavanagh has stressed that the network is “not for sale”, a…
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MTV expands Israeli offering on HOT
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has expanded its MTV youth and music portfolio in Israel, splitting its…
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Perform teams up with Reuters
Sports market group Perform has teamed up with news agency Reuters to distribute video content…
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SMPTE makes board appointments
The board of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has named its…
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ANGA COM notches up 350 exhibitor registrations
German trade show ANGA COM has reached 350 exhibitor registrations, four months ahead of this…
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Amazon to rival Netflix with original movies
Amazon Studios is to begin to produce and acquire original movies for early window distribution…
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Avalon and Hat Trick launch BBC3 takeover attempt
UK production companies Avalon and Hat Trick have confirmed they are attempting to take over…
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TF1 and Canal+ to share World Cup Rugby
French commercial broadcaster TF1 has struck an agreement to share this year’s World Cup Rugby…
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Elliott granted Kabel Deutschland EGM
Vodafone majority-owned German cable operator Kabel Deutschland is to grant minority shareholder Elliott Management its…
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Former Rightster and ITV exec joins Factory Media
Former Rightster and ITV executive Jonathan Bates has joined action sports media company Factory Media…
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Netflix goes straight-to-series with Will Arnett
Streaming service Netflix has greenlit an eight-episode, straight-to-series comedy from The Millers and Arrested Development…
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comScore to measure video audiences across devices
Digital analytics firm comScore is reportedly planning to launch a new video tracking measurement that…
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Altech partners with DivX on 4K set-top boxes
Set-top provider Altech Multimedia has struck a deal with DivX to integrate DivX Plus HD…
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Dubai Media chooses Arkena’s Cloud4Media
Dubai Media has chosen French media services provider Arkena France to provide technology to support…
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Telstra launches Global Media Switch video delivery platform
Telstra has launched Global Media Switch, a video delivery platform that allows broadcasters and content…
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New sales director for Telekom Deutschland
Deutsche Telekom has named Hagen Rickmann as the new sales director for Telekom Deutschland, the…
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Piksel to acquire content for OTT providers
OTT TV technology specialist Piksel is branching out into content acquisition for OTT players. The…
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Short-form video market to be worth US$13bn by 2019
The revenue potential for short-form video, from services like YouTube and DailyMotion, is expected to…
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Twitter continuing to explore TV revenue opportunities
Tweets about TV shows can drive ratings, but ratings also drive Tweets, producing a cyclical…
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China’s Xiaomi launches ultra-small HDMI set-top
Chinese mobile handset giant Xiaomi has launched an ultra-small version of its existing Mi Box…
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Kenyan pay TV operators condemn broadcasters’ ‘misinformation’
Kenyan pay TV operators GOtv Kenya and StarTimes Kenya have said they will take legal…
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SVoD service Megogo now on ER-Telecom’s Dom.ru TV
Russian service provider ER-Telecom has added Ukraine-based OTT TV service Megogo to its Dom.ru TV…
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Ukraine’s Volia adds HD music channel to line-up
Ukrainian cable operator Volia has added locally-produced music channel RU Music HD to its line-up. …
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Roku and Asda join UK industry association the DTG
Web streaming device maker Roku and supermarket chain Asda have joined UK industry association the…
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Motive to add Chromecast integration to TabletTV
Motive Television is set to integrate Google’s Chromecast technology into its TabletTV apps, so that…
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BBC revamps African web presence
BBC World Service has launched a new African edition of the BBC.com website, designed to…
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Fox Turkey agrees media monitoring deal with Actus Digital
Fox International Channels subsidiary, Fox Turkey, has extended its partnership with media monitoring and multiplatform…
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Andreae out at Fox, Electus’ Henson in
Simon Andreae’s spell at the top of US broadcast network Fox’s reality arm is over,…
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WWE Network goes live in UK, gets Roku release
Wrestling entertainment company the WWE has launched its direct-to-consumer channel, WWE Network, in the UK…