New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) finds that 38% of all households in the US have at least one television set connected to the Internet via a video game system, a Blu-ray player, an Apple TV or Roku set-top box, and/or the TV set itself, up from 30% last year, and 24%… Continue reading TVs in the US are getting connected – but not by smart TVs yet

Multichannel broadcaster, UKTV, has defined its first ever IPTV deal. The three-year agreement with BT Vision covers both channel-branded VOD (video-on-demand) content which will be available from today, and the network’s award-winning portfolio of linear, paid-for television channels, beginning with Watch, Gold and Alibi later this year.

Shazam CEO, Andrew Fisher, gave an excellent keynote speech at the first day of IPTV World Forum at Olympia yesterday, highlighting the exciting recent develops at the company.

Sky today announced that its new internet TV service, offering access to Sky content on a wide range of broadband-connected devices, will be called NOW TV.

New In-Stat research forecasts that 100 million households will actively use a hybrid service delivered to their TV set by 2016.

The BBC and Microsoft today announced the launch of the BBC iPlayer on Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE free platform, making iPlayer now available on every major gaming platform in the UK.

All3Media has announced it is going to launch a connected TV app where users can access all content from the TV production company.

French viewers watched 1.8 billion videos on catch-up TV last year, according to a new report by cinema and TV public organisation CNC.

Al Jazeera has announced that it is going to stream its Arabic and English TV news channels through a custom built application for all Samsung smart TVs.

Deloitte has released an infographic to accompany their “State of the Media Democracy” report.