IPTV crew impressed with Kalona
The Kalona News
As they left Kalona Wednesday afternoon, Dan Kaercher and John Torpy of IPTV (Iowa Public Television) were already looking forward to the next time that they could come back to Kalona. Kaercher, host of IPTV show “Iowa's Simple Pleasures,” and ...

FierceIPTV
IPTV revenue reached $19 million in the second quarter of 2012 with total IPTV customers of 95100 at the end of June 2012. FibreOP TV customers grew by 13000 in the quarter to reach 65300, a portion of which were migrations from Bell Aliant TV. Overall ...

UTStarcom Announces Strategic Initiatives
MarketWatch (press release)
As part of this strategy, the Company will divest its IPTV equipment business, which will become a privately-held standalone company. Once the divestiture transaction closes, Mr. Jack Lu will lead the new IPTV equipment business, thus leaving his ...

Bell Aliant Q2 revenue down 0.7 percent, but FTTH, IPTV expansion continues
FierceTelecom
Bell Aliant's (Toronto: BA.TO) IP service growth pains continued into the second quarter of 2012, as the service provider's operating revenue dropped 0.7 percent to CAD 688 million (USD 675 million) due to declines in traditional local and long ...

TRAI to float consultation paper on media ownership
Daily News & Analysis
People need to think whether newspaper, television, radio, IPTV, satellite channels should be owned by one person, Trai Chairman Rahul Khullar said at industry body Assocham's conference on 'Cross Media Ownership'. "Most of the international experience ...

Public-sector union leader pessimistic about bargaining
Indianapolis Star
For Web video and more program times, see IPTV.org/iowapress. More. The head of Iowa's largest public-sector union Friday offered a fairly gloomy view of upcoming contract negotiations with the state, in light of a rocky and distant relationship with Gov.

Soap opera 2.0: the rise of branded entertainment in the age of smart TV
The Guardian (blog)
By 2015, 350 million internet-connected TVs will have been sold around the world, according to Vision IPTV. But what will the brand formats of the future look like on these devices? To predict this new phenomenon, and how brands will own their share of ...

YouView's launched but BT won't offer it until autumn
FierceIPTV
Just to clear up what's probably a little confusion these days about the on-again-off-again-on-again launch of British IPTV service YouView, the service did launch—at least to some customers—in time for the London Summer Olympics. But one of its key ...

Beltelecom targets two million Byfly and IPTV subscribers by September
TeleGeography
Belarusian state-owned national PTO Beltelecom hopes to have signed up two million internet subscribers by September 2012, online news portal e-Belarus.org quotes its managing director Sergei Popkov as saying. The Beltelecom official says that by that ...

Set-top deals: Russia's MTS boxes with Smartlabs; Rostelecom tabs Infomir
FierceIPTV
Russian telecom Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (NYSE: MBT)--better known as MTS--apparently liked the first batch of IPTV set-tops it got from SmartLabs that it's order a second delivery. MTS calls itself the "leading telecommunications group in Russia ...

Informa: TalkTalk making out like bandits from YouView
IPTV News
UK service provider TalkTalk has timed its TV strategy perfectly with today's launch of a YouView-based offer, according to Giles Cottle, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media (publisher of IP&TV News). Despite operating a pay-TV platform since ...

FAVE TV to Debut NFL Network HD: First IPTV Platform to Offer HD Channel ...
Equities.com
FAVE TV to Debut NFL Network HD: First IPTV Platform to Offer HD Channel Programming. PR Web. Naples, Fla. (PRWEB) July 26, 2012. FAVE TV, the cable and satellite alternative, recently announced that it is offering the NFL Network HD. With this ...

Orange counts 5.5mn pay-TV subs
IPTV News
France Telecom-Orange saw its pay-TV customer base (served by IPTV and satellite platforms) rise 20% on an annual basis in the first half of this year to reach 5.5mn. Most of these subscribers are located in France and Poland, but there is also a ...

UK Net Neutrality Under (Coded) Attack
ComputerworldUK (blog)
Again, there's that mention of "high quality IPTV" services that would be "prioritised over other traffic": precisely what net neutrality is not. This lays bare what the Code of Practice is really about, and why it is problematic. The major ISPs who ...

AT&T's U-verse TV passes 4mn subs
IPTV News
US telco AT&T added 155000 subscribers for its managed IPTV service 'U-verse TV' in the second quarter of this year to reach a total of 4.1mn in service. Revenues from its U-verse services (VoIP, TV and broadband) increased 38% in the period on an ...