ABIX via COMTEX) -- Foxtel and SingTel Optus reached an agreement thought necessary to ensure the survival of pay television TV in Australia. Under the deal, Foxtel would take on the $A619m worth of Optus's US programming contracts, and get first a ABIX via COMTEX) --...
Louth Automation is providing a fully automated solution to Foxtel Australia's new digital facility, including program timing, media preparation and multichannel commercial and program playback. Foxtel, the pay-TV joint venture of News Corp. and Tels Louth Automation is providing a fully automated solution to Foxtel ...
SYDNEY, March 28 Asia Pulse - Foxtel will get first and last right of refusal regarding some Optus assets, should the Australian telco decide to dispose of those assets, under the Foxtel-Optus pay TV rationalisation deal. SYDNEY, March 28 Asia Pulse - Foxtel will...
Hong Kong -- E! Networks has signed two new mobile deals for the Asian Pacific territory with Foxtel by Mobile and Vodafone in Australia, announced Managing Director, Asia, E! Networks Christine Fellowes. Foxtel by Mobile will offer up E! cont ...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Telstra has endorsed a deal made between Foxtel and Singtel Optus relating to pay television services provided by Foxtel to Optus Vision. Telstra's chief executive officer, Ziggy Switkowski, has described the alliance, which is un ABIX via COMTEX) -- Telstra has endorsed...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenTV Corp. (Nasdaq NMS: OPTV), one of the world's leading interactive television companies, today announced that FOXTEL, Australia's leading subscription television provider, will launch in early March 200 SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Telstra CEO, Ziggy Switkowski, says the proposed pay television alliance between Foxtel and Singtel Optus is in Australia's interest. The deal for Foxtel to supply pay television content to rival operator Optus Vision is being rev ABIX via COMTEX) -- Telstra CEO,...
There's a pay-TV shake-up down under since the announcement of a merger between Australis Media and Foxtel, the pay-TV operator owned jointly by News Corp. and Telstra, the Australian state-owned telecom group. Australis ... There's a pay-TV shake-up down under since the announcement of a ...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Pay television operators, Foxtel and Singtel Optus may give guarantees competitors can access their networks. Among the clauses in the deal to which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission objected was the "first a ABIX via COMTEX) -- Pay television operators, Foxtel...
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- The long-awaited consummation of the relationship between Australian media barons Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch -- now partners in the Foxtel cable systems company - is drawing the eye of the Australian Competition and Consum SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- The long-awaited consummation...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Foxtel remains upbeat, despite a rejection of its proposed deal with Optus. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ACCC rejected the content sharing deal on the basis that it would be anti-competitive. ACCC's chairma ABIX via COMTEX) -- Foxtel remains upbeat, despite...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is all-powerful in interpreting the Trade Practices Act. The Australian competition regulator is incorrect in assuming the proposed Foxtel and Optus content sharing deal is anti-c ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Competition and Consumer ...
CANBERRA, March 6 Asia Pulse - Foxtel chief executive Kim Williams said today that he couldn't imagine that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ACCC would have a problem approving the merger between the country's two major pay-telev CANBERRA, March 6 Asia Pulse - Foxtel...
In February this year, Australia's three pay-TV platform heads identified programme acquisition costs as one of the main barriers preventing their profitability. Foxtel CEO Kim Williams and his counterparts, Austar's John Porter and Optus' Martin In February this year, Australia's three pay-TV...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Foxtel CEO, Kim Williams, will not reveal how the pay television group will respond to Australia's competition regulator. Commenting in late June 2002, he said he did not intend to conduct negotiations via the media. On 21 June, t ABIX via COMTEX)...
SYDNEY, Nov 13 Asia Pulse - Optus expects up to $A30 million ($US16.78 million) a year from new content supply arrangements under its pay television deal with Foxtel. SYDNEY, Nov 13 Asia Pulse - Optus expects up to $A30 million ($US16.78 million) a year...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Foxtel is working on a response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's negative ruling on an alliance with Optus. The commission on 21 June 2002 blocked the $A1.3 billion pay television deal on the grounds it woul ABIX via COMTEX) --...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ACCC has stated approval for a new pay television proposal may not be granted. A program-sharing deal between Foxtel and Singtel Optus was blocked by the ACCC because of competi ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian pay television TV operator, Foxtel, says a restructure of its pay TV partnership is not under consideration. This is despite the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC rejecting the pay TV program-sha ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian pay television TV operator,...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC has vetoed an alliance between Australia's pay television groups. The ACCC ruled that the proposed content-sharing deal between Foxtel and Singtel Optus would be anti-com ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Competition & Consumer ...