UK cable operator Virgin Media’s new web and mobile VOD service will offer premium archive material, rather than the latest catch-up shows, because broadcasters already offer own-brand catch-up services, Virgin Media’s TV and online executive director Alex Green tells paidContent:UK.
UK national and regional news publisher Trinity Mirror’s digital income for the first half of this year is down by £300,000 to £18.6 million ($28.9 million) compared with last year, even though the news publisher is hailing traffic growth.
UK satcaster BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO Jeremy Darroch channeled much the same belief in paid content as its its largest shareholder News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). while discussing healthy growth from the last financial year with investment analysts Thursday morning…
The World Cup was shot in 3D, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is investing heavily in to 3D. But, despite all the hype, it’s connectivity, and not whizz-bang visuals, that will shift more TVs in the next few years, according to iSuppli.
Worldwide, iSuppli reckons 27.7 million internet-enabled TVs will ship this year,...
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Digital investor and former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) innovation head Azeem Azhar has shuttered his recently-launched Viewsflow site for identifying the most insightful news commentary, but fed the learnings in to PeerIndex, a service which attempts to rank people according to their authority on subjects.
Lloyd’s List and Datamonitor academic, scientific and business publisher Informa is the latest publisher to post a big profit increase despite slow revenue.
January-to-June revenue dipped two percent to £624 million, but profit more than doubled to £66.4 million ($103 million).
Pay-TV set-top box maker Pace is offering $475 million in cash for 2Wire, a telco and media delivery company it says will give it a foothold in the U.S. market.
Pace, which makes boxes for the likes of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), reported 46...
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Financial Times Group’s half-year profit more than doubled from £14 million to £30 million, even though profit grew only nine percent.
Parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO), reporting profit growth across all of its divisions, didn’t say why, but we would think recent cost cuts helped.
Back in May, Rupert Murdoch told investment analysts he would use a press conference “in about three to four weeks” to announce “an innovative subscription model” together with “a number of publishers, device makers and technology companies”.
The press conference never came. But that doesn’t mean News Corp (
The BBC has been freed to launch smartphone apps by the BBC Trust, which has ruled that the idea does not need to be subjected to a Public Value Test despite concern about market distortion from commercial publishers.
The trust agrees with the BBC that mobile apps...
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