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In a country where most people get their TV via cable or satellite, it can be easy to forget that the local networks still broadcast their signals the old-fashioned way, from tower... More

It’s a subscription video-on-demand world (spearheaded by Netflix) with the remaining rental channels increasingly secondary players, according to new research from The Convergen... More

US digital TV and movie content audiences will grow faster than previously expected as a result of increased viewing on tablets and smartphones, a wave of Internet-enabled TVs, and... More

UK supermarket Tesco has secured a wide range of popular cookery, comedy and drama programmes for its new over-the-top (OTT) video service Clubcard TV following a deal with BBC Wor... More

With software security catching up to that of hardware in terms of the ability to cost-effectively protect content, it’s no great surprise that the cardless conditional access sy... More

Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. started a subscription streaming service featuring vintage TV shows and films, creating a new player in the online viewing field led by Netflix In... More

The announcement provided a slight upward jolt to the satellite company’s stock this morning. Dish says that it will sell $1B in senior notes — details will come later in an SE... More

USA Network says it has upgraded the second-screen experience it provides viewers by allowing fans of its shows to access custom content, video, voting and poling and interact thro... More

Rovi said Cogeco Cable is the first pay TV provider to launch its TotalGuide xD app for Apple's iPad, which lets subscribers browse TV listings and schedule DVR recordings with the... More

In an effort to improve its online and mobile advertising, socially powered TV guide BuddyTV has formed a partnership with National CineMedia (NCM) Networks, the company behind the... More

When a brand name becomes a verb, you know it has hit the big time. Hoover did it. Google did it. Another technology company wants us to believe "Shazamming" has entered our day-to... More

As we watch the rapid consolidation in the second-screen space, we have seen the inevitable rise of Twitter as a tool for enhanced and interactive television. And the explosion of ... More

The more screens you have, the more likely you are to engage in media multitasking. To find out what all that means for programmers and advertisers, the Time Warner Medialab conduc... More

If you are looking for a second screen, enhanced interactive TV app, zeebox is loaded with features and easy to use. It's well organized making it easy to engage in social TV-chatt... More

Interactivity across the broadcast spectrum is the new name of the game as broadcasters seek to expand — or perhaps more accurately, keep — viewers who spend increasingly more ... More

Captivating the imagination of millions of viewers around the world, Game of Thrones, Juego de Tronos, returns for its third season on CANAL+ Spain accompanied by an engaging secon... More

Fans of CBS’s "The Bold and the Beautiful" can now experience the show in an entirely new dimension with an interactive second-screen experience that syncs in real-time to the sh... More

UK media discovery specialist Shazam has confirmed that it is focusing its attentions on what it terms”media engagement” in the TV space, making it easier for consumers to enga... More

French free-to-air (FTA) and pay-TV group Canal+ has signed a five-year content deal with HBO encompassing all HBO's TV series. The agreement covers all Canal+ Group channels, incl... More