- Orange: France Telecom has licensed several archive shows for its mobile subsidiary’s IPTV service from Granada International, the distribution arm for the company that makes such shows as Coronation…

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Updated below: This is bound to happen sooner than later, as Apple consider pushing more content through its AppleTV conduit to the TV: FT reports that the company is in…

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Some interesting results from the test releasing movies on video-on-demand and DVD on the same day (that is, doing away with PPV window): it boosts sales of both significantly but…

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TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) reversed its fortunes in Q1 from the year before, with net income of $835,000 compared to a net loss of $10.7 million in Q106. Revenue for the…

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New media legislation passed in the European Union extends some of the regulations once devised for television to the internet. The Audiovisual Media Services Without Frontiers (AVMS) directive updates the…

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Ingenious Media, a British media investment house, has bought a controlling stake in interactive television content producer Two-Way TV for £5.34 ($10.6) million.  Two-Way TV makes interactive quiz show, gambling…

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A digital plan can’t come soon enough for ITV but its mysterious new website has now been delayed again. First-half advertising revenue at main channel, ITV1, fell 9.6 percent (overall…

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Earlier this week in the press, BBC’s director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield got a verbal kicking from several quarters over what some say is an increasingly less…

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Also to be announced at the Cable Show on Tuesday: Disney’s two big TV networks, ABC and ESPN, are launching free, ad-supported VOD of hit shows and football games on…

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Italian broadband provider Tiscali has partnered with movie distributor Arts Alliance Media to launch Movies Now, a UK internet-based VOD service that includes over 500 titles. Users can download or…

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It’s still not here, but ITV did today stage a press launch hailing its eager-awaited web revamp as “the most comprehensive commercial website offered by any major broadcaster in the…

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Some more details on the BBC Trust’s final, final go-ahead for the BBC to roll out its iPlayer on-demand plans. The project will offer seven-day TV catch-up over the internet…

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Toronto, Canada-based Barna-Alper Productions has made a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount in New York-based iThentic, an online and mobile video company. Barna-Alper is one of Canada’s leading independent…

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Channel 4’s 4OD on-demand content strand has seen 20 million programs pulled down by more than a million viewers in its first six months, FT reports. The broadcaster launched the…

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Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) reported an 80 percent surge in profits for the quarter to end of March, net income rising to $837 million from $466 million in the same period…

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ITV, Britain’s biggest commercial TV network, is finally ready to unveil its long-awaited online video-on-demand offering. MediaWeek reports the broadcaster has circulated invites to a launch ceremony in London on…

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So says a new note by Pali Research analysts Rich Greenfield and Mark Smaldon ..they say that even though Comcast and Time Warner Cable are currently trialling the release of…

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Joost used MipTV in Cannes to announce a raft of new content carriage deals with independent TV and movie distributors. The deals will bring additional film, children’s and fiction content…

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With the TV upfront season gearing up, many media executives have been touting the increased web-related efforts of their respective networks, most notably, the NBCU-News Corp. online video venture. But…

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The BBC will this week announce plans for a massive online program archive. Speaking to paidContent.org, a BBC spokesperson confirmed a report in the Sunday Observer that the corporation aims…

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Masters’ Stats: So last month, a CBS spokesman carefully explained to me why the network wouldn’t release detailed metrics for March Madness on Demand—because the network doesn’t provide the numbers…

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In UK, ITV and Setanta have won the online, mobile and video-on-demand rights to show much of English soccer from summer 2008 - the first time the newer platforms have…

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UK public service broadcaster Channel 4’s annual new media budget is increasing by £1 million ($1.9 million) to £22 million ($43 million) in 2007. In its statement of programme policy…

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Richard Branson’s Virgin Media has convinced UK media regulator Ofcom to investigate Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB digital satellite network over the withdrawal of several of its channels from digital cable and…

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At least telco is being strategic about it: the Denver-based telco Qwest may forgo spending billions to build a full IPTV service (unlike Verizon and AT&T), and could opt for…

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