FOXTEL today welcomed the Australian Federal Police (AFP) charging a New South Wales man for allegedly running a significant piracy network involved in the theft and illegal on-sale of subscription television through a card sharing scam. This comes on top of charges laid yesterday by NSW Police against other another allegedly illegal piracy operation. The …
Tag Archive: Channels
Dec
09
YouTube’s New ‘Channels’ Flicker to Life With Mom-Focused ‘Kin’
YouTube’s $100 million experiment in original content won’t start to bear fruit until early next year, but a couple of newly commissioned “channels” are getting off the ground early, including women-focused “Kin,” from Deca, the company that operates websites like Momversation.com and CoolMom.com. The channel, which went live Monday night, include four web series, or …
Dec
05
Viacom18 opens up new category with the launch of ‘Sonic’
After Colors, MTV, Nick and Vh1, Viacom18 is all set to launch its fifth channel in India — ‘Sonic’, which will be the first channel targeted at the untapped segment of ‘new young adults’. Sonic will offer the 10- to 17-year-olds doses of action, adventure and animation, 24×7. Slated for launch in mid-December, Sonic aims …
Nov
21
Malaysia to get new digital cable TV network next year
A new digital cable TV network, known as the Asian Broadcasting Network (ABN), is set to launch in Malaysia by the second quarter of 2012, The Starreports. It promises to offer over 500 channels. At the point of launch, ABN expects to offer over 100 channels comprising a variety of content including free-to-air channels and …
Oct
10
SBS and ABC to offer content on Xbox Live
Australian public broadcasters SBS and ABC have teamed up with Microsoft to offer their content on the popular Xbox Live platform, Inside Film reports. SBS’ new video-on-demand service, which was launched on 1 September, will be available to Xbox LIVE subscribers in the “coming months”, offering more than 90 percent of primetime programming that appears on both …
Oct
10
Broadcaster’s body rues power to reject licences-India
New Delhi: The National Broadcasters’ Association on Sunday expressed regret over a Cabinet decision which empowers the I&B Ministry to decline renewal of licenses of TV channels if they are found violating the terms of its “subjective” assessment. In a statement, the NBA said it notes with regret that the Cabinet has purportedly approved certain …
