The BBC has lost out to talkSPORT for the rights to broadcast late Saturday afternoon and early Sunday Premier League football matches from next season.
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In 2015, shoppers around the world are expected to spend about $119 billion on goods and services purchased via mobile phones, representing about 8% of the total e-commerce market.
Channel 4’s new Cutting Edge documentary My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding secured the highest ratings during the all-important peak-hour last night with more than 4.9 million viewers.
YouTube’s head of AdSales Bruce Daisley denied claims that the video sharing site is likely to be the first international television channel, as predicted by Adam Pace, head of digital buying at OPera at MediaTel Group’s Future of Online seminar earlier this month.
Do consumers really know what they’re looking for when it comes to video-on-demand services or do they prefer scouring the Radio Times for some good old-fashioned television scheduling?
Project Canvas faced mixed opinion at MediaTel Group’s ‘The Internet comes to TV’ event in London on Wednesday, held in association with Rovi, but much of this was simply down to it still being seen as work in progress.
Well for starters, Project Canvas’ backers – ITV, BBC, BT, Five, Channel 4 and TalkTalk – insist the internet TV service will be ready for launch later this year.
The Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) has hit out at BBC plans to launch free news and sport apps, accusing it of throwing “into serious doubt the commercial sector’s ability to make a return on its investment”.
Yesterday’s invite-only ‘The Internet comes to TV – How will viewers find my content?’ event, hosted by MediaTel Group and Rovi, saw a room full of top industry executives excitedly discussing the prospects of digital television.
Americans are spending an average of 2.7 hours on the mobile internet each day, new research from Ruder Finn has found.
