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TV News of the Week: Sony Hacking Attack; YouTube Fighting to Keep Stars

Fri, Dec 12, 2014 | by Merav Cunningham

It has been an interesting week of twists and turns with new details released on the severe hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment – which the company said was "unprecedented". Besides targeting business and employee information, hackers posted four unreleased movies on file-sharing sites, jeopardizing Christmas box-office revenues. The race between Facebook and Google was all about content stars - with reports about attempts and counter-attempts by the two web giants to lure stars to their services. The quarterly Nielsen audience report was released, showing a 60% jump in video streaming since last year.

Thu, Dec 11, 2014 | by François Moreau de Saint-Martin

This summer, Viaccess-Orca has been part of a project that could be considered as a world record. In only five months, Telekom Romania has set up its next generation service platform, based on VO’s TV...

Tue, Dec 9, 2014 | by Chem Assayag

“Breaking Bad”: 5 seasons, 62 episodes of 47 minutes, more than 48 hours of Walter White in total; “Game of Thrones”: 10 new episodes of season 5 are coming soon, while each of the previous four seaso...

Thu, Dec 4, 2014 | by Merav Cunningham

Are digital media players good or bad for regular TV viewing? What effect do they have on “cutting the cord”? A new report by GfK has some interesting information. In the U.K, media is buzzing with re...

Thu, Nov 27, 2014 | by Merav Cunningham

It's Thanksgiving, or, from the industry's point of view, Black Friday. All eyes are currently on TV sales figures, with what seems to be a very positive outlook. Earlier this week, U.S. media reporte...

Wed, Nov 19, 2014 | by Efrat Fenigson

One of the things that you notice when you look around the current TV industry is that, unless a broadcaster is very, very new, at some point it is having to deal with legacy technology. And not just ...

Tue, Nov 18, 2014 | by Merav Cunningham

The latest industry news, on both sides of the Atlantic, could create ripples for quite some time. In the United States, President Barack Obama's call on the FCC to adopt strong net neutrality rules w...