CBS sues Global Broadcasting

CBS is suing Global Broadcasting, owner of WLNE Providence, for failing to pay nearly $2.2 million in licence fees on such CTD-distributed shows as Dr Phil, Inside Edition, Rachael Ray, The Insider, and Entertainment Tonight, states Broadcasting and Cable.

CBS says: “There is no excuse or explanation for Global's failure and refusal to pay the amount owed under the agreements, particularly since Global continued to reap the benefits of the agreements by airing the programmes."

CTD claims that decision "anticipatorily" breaches the contract because it requires "Global to air the programmes during the contracted-for time period, and Global has no right to terminate the agreements prior to their scheduled expirations."

China will establish an industry alliance for its self-developed mobile TV standard called the China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB), says TMCnet.

According to the rules constituted for members of the CMMB working group, they are allowed to use related patents freely in research and development.

The network signals of CMMB have covered 175 Chinese cities, and the number will reach 337 by the end of this year.

Digital Mobile Television Kenya, a unit of Naspers, is seeking to have about 1.3 million Kenyan mobile-television subscribers during the next 12 months, reports Bloomberg.

Digital Mobile started the service with mobile phone operator Safaricom Kenya, which had 13.4 million customers at the end of March, and Nokia OYJ.

The transmissions make use of the 13 channels available on mobile phones in Nairobi and the second-biggest city, Mombasa. There are plans to roll it out to the western Kenya towns of Kisumu, Eldoret and Nakuru.