News Corp. news from FierceIPTV

Key documents in EchoStar's $1 billion action against News Corporation's NDS encryption business have been published revealing the nefarious world of pay-TV piracy. Charlie Ergen's EchoStar is Read more...

The resignation of CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik, the surge in popularity of major competitor Hulu and with another dozen-plus players seeking prominence as an online TV portal, there is much Read more...

Troubled New York Video aggregator and IPTV operator, Roo Media, has closed the business services and P2P operations it bought from Wurld Media a year ago for $10 million. The closure comes as new Read more...

The device space may be white hot, but there is similar feverish collaboration under way among the content players, with numerous media brands announcing distribution and alliance deals for the new Read more...

The story about Hanaro Telecom offering delayed downloads of TV shows caught my eye this week. Telcos across the country are sinking millions into infrastructure upgrades so they can offer IPTV, Read more...

The relationship between NBC and Apple is ending ingloriously. When the network said it wouldn't renew its iTunes contract, Apple responded by nixing the current NBC inventory. The news emerged last Read more...

A slew of traditional TV programmers have recently spilled content onto the Internet, including the National Football League. The NFL, which guards its content closely, is making the Sunday Ticket Read more...

Seoul, Korea telecom KT picked up content protection technology from NDS (a News Corp. company) for its IPTV play, Mega TV. KT is already heavily into broadband provision, with 6.51 million Read more...

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, News Corp. is poised to buyback its second biggest shareholder's stake in the company in exchange for its 38.6 percent stake in Read more...

News Corp. and its majority-owned DirecTV business are reportedly embarking on an ambitious plan to set up a nationwide WiMAX network in the U.S. through strategic partners. And one likely Read more...