It is reported that BSkyB is currently in talks with an Arabic language news provider with a view to launching the twenty four hour news channel in Arabic under the Sky News banner.

The talks are being held with an investor from Abu Dhabi who will run the channel on a 50 – 50 share basis.

The channel will cover the Middle East and north Africa, while competing with the already established news providers such as Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera and BBC Arabic.

BSkyB has dded Al Jazeera to its channel line up recently, so this could be BSkyB’s new market for the future, with new channels starting up covering the region it is only natural that BSkyB is getting in on the act.

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BSkyB negotiating with Arabic news channel

KIT digital Signs Multi-Year Partnership to Deliver IPTV Set-Top Box Solution for Global Ethnic Programming in North America – KIT digital, Inc., a leading global provider of IPTV enablement technology and video-centric interactive marketing solutions, announced today that it has been selected by TV2Moro, a new firm backed by several top-tier ethnic television aggregators and producers, to deploy a new IPTV set-top box (STB) service to deliver programming to ethnic consumers in North America.

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IPTV STB Deployment

AEPOC: “Adequate legal protection marching at the same speed of technological progress is crucial for the media sector” – February 12, 2007

AEPOC, the European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services, underlined the critical need for an EU legislative framework adapting to new technologies of the content everywhere environment in order to secure digital growth – and strongly fight audio-visual piracy crimes.

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IPTV Anti-Piracy