Deloitte has been appointed as administrator of Setanta after it failed in its bid to secure funding.The Irish broadcaster has entered administration after missing deadlines to pay the Scottish and English Premier Leagues (see Broadcasters to bid for Setanta football rights).Deloitte said that Setanta will cease broadcasting in Great Britain but Setanta Ireland and Setanta… Continue reading Setanta enters administration

BSkyB is favourite to acquire the rights to broadcast Scottish Premier League football matches after Setanta failed to meet a payment deadline.Lex Gold, SPL executive chairman, said yesterday: “Setanta missed the deadline for the £3 million we set for them. We set three deadlines and we wanted to work with Setanta who have been a… Continue reading BSkyB favourite to get SPL rights

Disney owned sports network ESPN has won the rights to show 46 live Premier League football matches next season, in a deal thought to be worth £90 million.The two packages, which Irish broadcaster Setanta lost after missing a payment deadline last Friday (see Broadcasters to bid for Setanta football rights), are for Saturday teatime and… Continue reading ESPN wins rights to 46 Premier League matches

Yahoo! is piloting new self-service display ads in the US, called My Display Ads, designed to help small and medium-sized businesses reach their target audiences on Yahoo! and its network of partner sites.My Display Ads lets advertisers create and customise campaigns using more than 800 display templates on a web-based, self-service interface.Advertisers can also choose… Continue reading Yahoo! pilots self-service display ads

Setanta has lost the rights to show 46 live Premier League football matches, with rival broadcasters given a deadline of today to lodge bids for the games.Setanta was unable to meet the Friday deadline for a £10 million payment to the Premier League, which was part of £30 million it owed the organisation (see Premier… Continue reading Broadcasters to bid for Setanta football rights

The London Evening Standard has signed a deal with the New York Daily News to share editorial content.The Standard, which is 75% owned by Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev, already has a relationship with Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, in which Lebedev has a 39% stake.The title relaunched in May (see Evening Standard relaunches today with promises… Continue reading Evening Standard signs content sharing deal with New York Daily News

Microsoft has continued to increase its position in the US search market following the initial week of new search engine Bing’s debut, according to new comScore data.Microsoft sites saw average daily searcher penetration and share of search result pages in the US continue to climb during the second week of Bing’s introduction, said comScore.Average daily… Continue reading Bing increases market share

New Nielsen data reveals that 2.5 million American households – 2.2% of the US television market – are unable to receive digital TV broadcasts since last week’s analogue switchoff.The markets with the most unready households tend to be in the Western United States, where cable penetration is lower, said Nielsen.Also, some viewers in border states… Continue reading America turns off analogue TV signal – millions still not switched

New US research has found that games consoles are the most used devices for bringing web video to the TV and will remain so through 2013.The research, from In-Stat, predicts that by 2013 over 10.7 million consoles will be used as web-to-TV mediation devices in the US.US revenue from web-to-TV streaming services will grow to… Continue reading Games consoles top choice in US for streaming TV

Five has partnered with online video platform Brightcove to allow viewers to embed episodes of Five shows on their websites, social networks and blogs.Partner websites and Five’s own online properties, such as Five.tv, will be the first websites to benefit from the deal, with third-party websites and consumers following later this year.Paul Thornton-Jones, Five’s digital… Continue reading Five to allow viewers to embed shows on websites