Moto Buys VOD Tech Firm Broadbus
It is official: Motorola is buying VOD server/software firm Broadbus, it has announced today. Motorola will use the acquisition to extend it… Read more »
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Motorola To Buy VOD Tech Provider Broadbus: Report; Cisco Sniffing Arroyo
By Rafat Ali
A bunch of M&A activity in the VOD vendor space: according to PE Week, Motorola is close to acquiring VOD server company Broadbus for about… Read more »
Sharp, Sony, M’shita To Set Up Digital TV Video Service JV; Invest $9 Million
By Rafat Ali
Not sure how this will look like, since couldn’t find the original release: Major Japanese electronics manufacturers including Matsushita, S… Read more »
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First Look: Yahoo Tech
Yahoo’s consumer tech site launched Sunday night. Some initial observations given that the site is supposed to be a step forward (the NYT ca… Read more »
ABC, Fox On Comcast VOD Soon; Joins NBC, CBS On Next Day Sale
By Rafat Ali
ABC and Fox will join competitors NBC and CBS on Comcast’s VOD service, Steve Burke, Comcast COO told media buyers Friday at a VOD upfront p… Read more »
@ NCTA: Closing Super Session: TW’s Bewkes Causes A Stir By Urging Widespread, Ad-Supported Network
Time Warner has so many dfferent programming experiments in the works I’m not sure any one person knows them all. Jeff Bewkes, president and… Read more »
Cable, VOD, Telco Competition, Et Al
By Rafat Ali
MediaWeek has a special report on the cable industry, timing it with the ongoing NCTA. VOD, broadband and how the digital media landscape is… Read more »
@ NCTA: Disney To Stream Full-Length Episodes Of Four Current Series On ABC.com; Free For Two Months
Ten advertisers will support Disney’s latest online initiative: a two-month trial streaming “Desperate Housewives,” and “Commander in Chief,… Read more »
NBC Universal Shows On VOD on Comcast; Non-Prime Time Free
By Rafat Ali
Comcast will sell popular NBC and sister channel TV shows through its VOD service starting in May. They will be available to Comcast digital… Read more »
Kasenna Raises $11 Million Funding for IPTV, Cable Expansion
By Rafat Ali
Kasenna, which specializes in the distribution of programming via VOD and IPTV, has closed an $11 million round of financing. Led by Intel C… Read more »
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More On Video Downloads, Advertising; Rocketboom Tries EBay Ad Auction
No sooner do I finish one post on video and advertising than more items worth noting pop up. This particular snowball isn’t going to melt an… Read more »
IPTV and VoD: The Great Content Adventure
By Rafat Ali
A good weekend read: excellent analysis of the IPTV and VOD market with a content-driven focus (mainly from a UK perspective). It goes into… Read more »
Collapsing Windows: TDVoD Is The Mix
By Rafat Ali
That’s TV-DVD-VOD, in case you didn’t get that…the momentum of those collapsing windows is increasing by the day, it seems, and “day and d… Read more »
TV’s On-Demand World: The Profit Squabbles
By Rafat Ali
I don’t know about you, but I find all these windowing squabbles fascinating…A good and detailed story in LAT about the issues arising out… Read more »
CES: Fox To Sell Shows on DirecTV Two Days Prior To TV Broadcast
By Rafat Ali
What any other network can do, expect Fox to try do one better: Fox Entertainment Group has inked a deal with sister satellite concern Direc… Read more »
Collapsing Windows: DVD and VOD Windows Might Merge This Year
By Rafat Ali
You’ll hear a lot more of this in 2006: Cable companies and major studios are discussing strategies to release movies through VOD cable serv… Read more »
MLBAM Invests In International Sports Programmer WCSN; Will Manage Web Site
An interesting development … MLBAM is acquiring approximately 10 percent of start-up sports programmer World Championship Sports Network,… Read more »
Comptroller Says BBC2 Will Be Broadcast Via Broadband; Trial Slated For 2006
Maybe we should build a spreadsheet to track all of the BBC’s new media plans. The latest batch includes a claim from BBC Two comptroller Ro… Read more »
Broadcasters Look For Leverage With Cable, Satellite (sub. req.)
Yes, the broadcast networks want alternative revenue streams, one key driver of the various trials in VOD and downloads. But Joe Flint sugge… Read more »
NBC Universal Agrees To Supply P2P Service Wurld Media With On Demand TV, Movie Content
NBC Universal has struck a deal with Wurld Media’s Peer Impact P2P service for what it calls “the first ever license of major studio content… Read more »
Local TV Affiliates: Don’t Forget Us
By Rafat Ali
With the VOD and iTunes video deals, the local TV affiliates are worried..this story says that when affiliates next meet with network execut… Read more »
TV On Demand: WSJ Special Report
By Rafat Ali
A package of three stories on TV on demand, in light of the announcements yesterday from NBC and CBS about selling VOD through DirecTV and C… Read more »
Reaction To NBC & CBS VOD Deals
By Rafat Ali
For one, I was interviewed on two NPR shows today: Marketplace (for the business angle) and All Things Considered (for the consumer angle).… Read more »
NBC Wants More DRM Safeguards For Online
By Rafat Ali
So said NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright, after announcing the VOD deal with DirecTV. This is especially true if the content has to move be… Read more »
NBC In 99-Cent VOD Pact With DirecTV; So Does CBS With Comcast
By Rafat Ali
Updated: read below: Two major deals in the VOD space:
– NBC-DirecTV: This is a biggie for satellite TV, and hopefully opening-of-mind for… Read more »
Telecom ’05: The Year They Waited For Video
By Rafat Ali
Well, that’s my phraseology..the Telecom ’05 conference (organized by USTA) is going on in Las Vegas, and bunch of activity (some might call… Read more »
Rainbow’s Day-Date Gambit
By Rafat Ali
This is a bold gambit, if Rainbow Media can pull it off…the programing unit of Cablevision is moving toward the first simultaneous release… Read more »
UK Broadcaster Launches Broadband Trial
By Jamie Poitra
[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Mainstream UK broadcaster ITV has bitten the bullet and begun a three month trial of its service on broadband int… Read more »
Comcast’s Billion VOD Views
By Rafat Ali
(via LR) Not that it really significant, but interestign milestone nonetheless: more than one billion programs have been viewed on its VOD s… Read more »
Comcast Proposes DVD/VOD Service
By Rafat Ali
A very good story on how Comcast is pushing to collapse the video windows prevelant in the industry, of course, for the betterment of its se… Read more »
Verizon Continues To Add Must-Have Programming To FiOS With MTV-BET Deal
Verizon adds MTV Networks and BET to the FiOS lineup with a wide-ranging deal announced today. That’s 27-plus channels including Comedy Cent… Read more »
ABC, CBS and NBC Inch Closer VOD Launches
By Rafat Ali
A very good overview story of the issues involved: All the networks are closing in on VOD launches within the next year, as talks between br… Read more »
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