Wednesday, October 16, 2013

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October 2 on the official website of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting was made public for discussion a new draft National Development Plan teleradioinformatsionnogo space. Unlike the current version of the Plan termination of the project envisages licensing of multi-channel television networks such as essential “Telecel” (470 – 862 MHz). In the third stage of transition to digital television (I quarter 2014) is proposed to receiving proposals from the National Council of licensees to turn off analogue terrestrial TV broadcasting, on the basis of which will prepare a plan of gradual turn it off. Establishes the obligation of licensees to broadcast digital television network for free informational videos about the features of the signal reception of digital multiplexes MX-1, MX-2, MX-3, MX-5 in the amount of 5 minutes, including – 30% in prime – time. In the total volume of each broadcaster broadcast at least 50% should be a national audiovisual product or musical works of Ukrainian authors or performers.

Oct. 9 , the Committee on Freedom of Expression and Information postponed consideration of the draft resolution on the dismissal from office of a member of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting Victoria St. George. The draft regulation was submitted to the People’s Deputy in Parliament Miroshnichenko August 6 in connection with submission of a member of the National Council of false information in the declaration of assets, income, expenses and financial liabilities for the year 2012. According to members of the Committee, it is necessary to wait for information from the tax authorities and to hear the explanation of the St. George itself.

the same day, at its meeting of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting considered the results of the checks “New Channel», ICTV, STB, “Teleodin” Ukrainian National Television and Broadcasting Company “Ukraine” for compliance with the amount of free broadcast infomercials Ltd. “Zeonbud.” It had taken note of the results of the inspection only TRK “Ukraine”. The other TV channels broadcast infomercials with deviations from a certain volume, and therefore the National Council recognized the violation.

In my defense, representatives of TV channels stressed that there is always infomercials “Zeonbud” correspond to the declared quality and technical implementation approaches.

Oct. 8 service Divan.tv founder Andrew Kolodyuk announced the release of the company on the international markets. The company plans to open an office in Moscow, which will be responsible for Europe and the CIS, including Ukraine. Office, which will work with other countries, will be in California. In the international market service-oriented Ukrainian-and Russian-speaking audience, which will be offered for $ 9.99 a month to watch about 60 channels and movies, videos, educational programs, etc. In the data plan already includes some Ukrainian channels such as “Inter”. The company is negotiating with a group of “1 +1 International». Content group “Ukraine” (MSU) and Starlight Media will not be available because they do not have the rights to international broadcasting. At the moment Divan.tv 125 million registered users with an average ARPU of about $ 5-6. About 75% of the Ukrainian audience of service – it is the users of devices Smart TV. Web-based version uses 7.8% of the audience, set-top boxes – 16,7%.

Meanwhile, October 2 LLC “Gravis Movie” (TV channel “2 +2″, is part of the media group “1 +1 Media») won the second instance court in the case against the “Divan TV” . The victory in the second instance allows the plaintiff to demand implementation of the decision. A similar case is now being considered in the first instance at the suit of the main channel media group – “1 +1″. A few months ago, “Divan TV” has already lost an appeal against a similar judicial decisions taken in favor of the media group StarLightMedia Viktor Pinchuk. The court banned the “Divan TV” broadcast STB and the “New Channel”. According to the plaintiffs, the multimedia video service broadcasting channels of free contracting. None of these agreements in the service with “1 +1 Media», confirmed an official representative of this group.

With the launch of the first of two planned phases of Hungary’s transition from analog to digital television standards nationwide commercial channels countries point decline in the share of its audience. On the other hand, the beginning of the digitalization of the Hungarian Television has led to the “Irish scenario” – the country’s growing number of viewers of public channels. According to preliminary data, the most needy citizens 83% have switched from analogue to digital terrestrial TV, 6% chose analog cable TV, 10% – DTH satellite platform, and only 1% – IPTV. Approximately 13.2% of households in Hungary takes 1-7 channels, and about a fifth of households watching more than 70 channels.

Facebook

Company began working with European broadcasters, providing them with data extracted from a social network. Delivering a keynote speech at the show MIPCOM TV in Cannes, vice-president of Facebook, Partnerships Dan Rose said his company has collaborated with such broadcasters as TF1 and Canal + in France, Channel 4 and the Food Network in the UK, as well as with ZDF and ProSiebenSat.1 Media in Germany. First introduced last month, the application programming interface for the public Facebook feed specially designed to provide broadcasters with access to it in real time. New tool – Keyword Insights API – collects the total number of messages that mention a particular keyword, and provides partners with access to anonymised reports compiled on the basis of age, sex and place of residence of authors.

portal TSN.ua (group “1 +1″) has launched an application for TV Samsung Smart TV. In the application, in addition to actual news, archives available editions of TSN, channel programs “1 +1″ and the football championship Ukraine, the Champions League and Europa League. Interactive application, contains sections with videos, photos and online TV.

European news channel European news channel (Euronews) signed a global partnership agreement with the advertising multiscreen-platform Smartclip to monetize the service recently launched online video content distribution through the Internet, mobile devices and applications in the connected TV. Smartclip since 2008, is engaged in distribution of advertising is in multiscreen-environment – including smartphones, tablets, game consoles, and TV set-top boxes and connected TV.

Research Center Digital TV Research named best TV channels in Europe, palm received channel Discovery Channel. Channel is present on a variety of platforms across Europe. The Expert Group examined the presence of 270 international TV channels and media groups on the platforms of the largest 212 operators in 43 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The study showed that the Discovery Channel is available to subscribers 171 platform.

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