Philip Hunter

BSkyB could end up totally independent from News Corporation, which currently holds 39 percent of its shares.

Isareli company Novelsat is lobbying the DVB to create DVB-S3 by incorporating its satellite transmission technology.

Sky apologized to boxing fans after technical problems prevented some people from watching the recent world title fight between David Haye from the UK and Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko.

Leading broadcasting consultant urges regulators to revise DTT spectrum planning to provide better in-home coverage in urban areas.

France, like Germany and most other European countries except the UK, is basing its connected TV platform strategy on the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) standard.

The Broadcasting Audience Research Board (BARB), which measures TV consumption in the UK, is introducing a viewing meter for Web-based services.

European operators are taking contrasting routes to OTT, with some using it for boosting footprint while others position it as a service extension just for existing customers.

MoCA, the Multimedia Over Cable Alliance, has been joined by NDS, the first major conditional access vendor to do so.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) held a quality control workshop in June, concluding that there is a long way to go to develop the automated monitoring toolsets needed for multiscreen services.

The DVB anticipates DVB-T2-Lite filling in holes in terrestrial coverage in Europe, but doubts remain after flop of earlier DVB-H standard for mobile.

The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board has completed field tests of online audience measurement using metering software from Kantar Media.

The rush to Internet-delivered multiscreen services is driving innovation and boom in tools for boosting network performance.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) is urging its member countries to create a single market for digital broadcasting and cinema.

With Netflix, the U.S. made the early running on OTT, but Europeans are faster to embrace smart TVs.

The BBC wants to make high-quality Olympic content widely available on catch up via its iPlayer.

The European Broadcast Union and Advanced Media Workflow Association will unveil the new Framework for Interoperability of Media Services in TV Production at IBC 2011 in Amsterdam next month.

Sustainability and green issues will feature prominently at the upcoming IBC conference.

Metadata will figure more prominently than last year at IBC, reflecting its growing importance for search and discovery in a multiscreen world.

French pay TV operator Canal Plus has been fined €30 million by the country’s competition authority for failing to comply with requirements relating to its acquisition of TPS in 2006.

UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised that the government will be bold both in building infrastructure and easing regulations to promote universal access to premium TV services.

The BBC aims to make up for declining state funding from the licence fee by earning more exporting both its own content and other providers’ via Global iPlayer.