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British Sky Broadcasting and internet TV firm Roku plan to create a set-top box to distribute to subscribers of its internet-television service.The box will connect to TVs, enabling owners to view films, sports and other content from NOW TV, the digital pay on demand launched by Sky in July. This has been seen as a… Continue reading BSkyB and Roku to create set-top box

The release of Apple’s iPad Mini helped fuel substantial growth in worldwide shipments of 7-inch tablets over 2012.A forecast from IHS iSuppli, global sales of tablets with displays in the 7-inch size range are expected to boom by about 100% this year to 34 million units.This is up from 17 million in 2011. Sales will… Continue reading Shipments of 7-inch tablets doubled in 2012

Over half (55%) of people in Britain have connected their TV sets to the internet. This demonstrates consumers increasingly want to connect their ‘main screens’ (TV and computer), which could drive a big increase in sales for Smart TVs (TV’s that connect directly to the internet without needing another device), according to a YouGov study on the nation’s TV habits.

BT Vision has signed a distribution agreement with Discovery Networks UK to add Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Real Time to its rapidly increasing line-up of linear TV channels.

YouView may have to change its name after losing a High Court appeal.

Blinkx, which has indexed more than 35 million hours of searchable and on-demand video content, has seen an increase in advertising spend with new clients including Google, Asda and Gillette.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) forecast a decline in ITV’s share of commercial impacts (SOCI) but ITV still believe it will not impact on its advertising share in 2013. However, the bank maintains that ITV will see a decline in share.

Revenues decreased 1.9% at TalkTalk after eight consecutive quarterly falls in customer numbers and was pushed out of the number three slot earlier this month by BSkyB.

Vodafone has suffered a £492 million half-year loss after being hit with a multi-billion write-down in the value of its business in southern Europe.

One of the sessions at last week’s Huddle event at Mindshare was looking at second screens and their implications on the broadcast industry, chaired by Lindsey Clay, managing director, Thinkbox.