Dyle Mobile TV Newsroom

Consumers Demand More On-the-Go TV Options According to Dyle™ Mobile TV Data Report

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:17:44 -0500

Study Reveals Almost 7 Out of 10 Respondents Said Live Mobile TV Would Increase the Amount of Television They Watch.

Click here to download the report

Dyle™ Mobile TV Data Report

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:24:23 -0500

The June 2012 Dyle™ Mobile TV Data Report, conducted by Research Now, polled 510 U.S. consumers who represented a sample of 18-54 year olds to ﬁnd how live mobile television will ﬁt into the lives of U.S. consumers. Click here to download.

Elgato to develop accessory enabling Dyle Mobile TV service

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:31:38 -0500

Elgato To Develop Accessory Enabling Dyle™ Mobile TV Service on Mobile Devices

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:54:46 -0500

Elgato To Develop Accessory Enabling Dyle^TM Mobile TV Service on Mobile Devices

SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES – June 18, 2012 – Elgato, a global leader in consumer electronics solutions and accessories, and Dyle™ mobile TV, a live broadcast service from the Mobile Content Venture (MCV), today announced that Elgato’s EyeTV Mobile TV accessory and its EyeTV application will be certified as Dyle enabled.

EyeTV users will be able to watch encrypted, live TV broadcasts from Dyle partner stations along with unencrypted mobile TV from other broadcasters. Elgato’s accessory utilizes the broadcast industry standard technology of ATSC-Mobile.

Dyle mobile TV is the consumer-facing brand launched by MCV to deliver live mobile television content from 18 major broadcast groups including Pearl LLC (Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media) as well as Fox, ION Television, Univision, Bahakel, LIN, Telemundo, ABC, CBS and NBC.

Consumers with the Elgato EyeTV accessory will be able to enjoy live news, sports, and entertainment programming on their smartphones and tablets on-the-go through Dyle mobile TV. At launch, content for Dyle enabled devices will be available from more than 90 stations in 35 markets, reaching approximately 55 percent of the U.S. population.

“We are committed to building an open ecosystem of multiple devices and applications that can receive and view mobile TV. With the Dyle sticker on the box, consumers will now know that EyeTV can watch live broadcasts from our partners such as NBC and Fox,” said Salil Dalvi and Erik Moreno, co-General Managers of MCV. “The addition of this accessory supports our goal of providing consumers with a broad selection of devices that support Dyle and helps extend live TV viewing outside of the living room.”

“At Elgato, we have successfully deployed mobile TV hardware and software in international markets, and we are eager to apply our expertise to the significant opportunity we see in the US market,” said Markus Fest, CEO of Elgato. “We look forward to working with Dyle mobile TV to bring our solution to market in 2012.”

About Dyle™ Mobile TV
Dyle™ Mobile TV is offering consumers a new, easy way to experience and enjoy live broadcast television on their mobile devices at home or on-the-go. Available at no additional cost through 2012, the Dyle application enables live broadcast programming - such as local and national news, as well as sports and entertainment content, utilizing the ATSC mobile DTV standard, on mobile devices featuring Dyle. With compatible devices launching in 2012, Dyle will be available in 35 US markets, potentially reaching 55 percent of the population, and will add additional network programming and hardware in the future. Dyle is operated by the Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a joint-venture of 12 major broadcast groups including Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media, all of which are part of the standalone entity known as Pearl, LLC, as well as Fox, ION Television and NBC. For more information, visit dyle.tv.

About Elgato
Elgato offers industry-leading TV and video solutions for the Mac, PC, iPhone and iPad. With an extensive selection of TV tuners and its award-winning EyeTV software, Elgato offers a complete range of solutions to watch and record TV and HDTV. Elgato’s video products enable high-quality video recording and conversion for consumers and professionals alike. Furthermore, Elgato offers the world’s first truly portable high-speed drive featuring Thunderbolt technology. Elgato is privately held with offices in Munich, Germany and San Francisco, California.

Press inquiries:

For Mobile Content Venture:

Todd Cadley, 646-202-9787

Horn Group

todd.cadley@horngroup.com

Follow MCV/Dyle on Twitter: @DyleMobileTV

For Elgato:

Lars Felber, Director PR

+49 89 143 339 15

lars@elgato.com

Follow Elgato on Twitter: @elgato

https://www.facebook.com/elgato

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Dyle perfect storm? Elgato joins up for big 2012 ATSC Mobile TV launch

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:31:47 -0500

Mobile TV Venture Plugs Third Device Partner Into Dyle

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:31:54 -0500

Elgato To Offer Dyle TV Dongle For iOS Devices

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:32:41 -0500

Dyle teams with Elgato to expand mobile TV service to iOS devices

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:33:39 -0500

Dyle Signs Deal with Elgato for Mobile EyeTV

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:34:31 -0500

TV stations explore broadcasting to phone, tablets

Thu, 10 May 2012 08:58:23 -0500

Free live TV is coming to your smartphone and tablet

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:48:24 -0500

Free live TV is coming to your smartphone and tablet

By MARIA HALKIAS
Staff Writermhalkias@dallasnews.com
Published: 07 May 2012 10:35 AM

Would you like to watch live network TV on your smartphone or stream a movie? The answer is probably yes to both.

Later this year, watching live television on mobile digital devices will become a reality for more than 90 stations in 35 markets, including Dallas.

Thanks to Netflix, Hulu , iTunes , YouTube and a host of other websites, people already watch video on various-size screens.

As looming broadband shortages worry wireless carriers, government officials, manufacturers and retailers, the stalwart 70-year-old broadcast television business believes it’s got it covered.

“We produce local news and information and already have the licenses to spectrum. We don’t need more to broadcast from one station to many viewers,” said Belo Corp. chief executive Dunia Shive.

Besides, broadcast TV airways are still free to consumers, she said. All that’s missing to make mobile TV happen is a version of rabbit ears for phones and tablets.
Manufacturers such as Belkin International, LG Electronics and Samsung are working on that. A few prototype solutions were displayed in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. Belkin has a USB attachment that it plans to start selling later this year for iPhones and iPads.

Dallas-based Belo owns 20 television stations nationwide, including WFAA-TV (Channel 8) and CBSaffiliate KHOU-TV in Houston. It spun off its four daily newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, in 2008 to create a new company called A..H. Belo Corporation.

Belo and 11 other major broadcast companies are teaming up to create mobile television strategies that don’t require access to more spectrum. The Mobile Content Venture partnership includes Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., Media General Inc Meredith Corp., Fox, Ion Television and NBC.
An agreement between Dallas-based MetroPCS Communications Inc. and Mobile Content Venture will also allow the wireless company’s customers to watch live local broadcast television on phones that Samsung is making.

‘Spectrum crunch’

All of a sudden, television stations have found themselves with an asset that not so long ago was considered old school.

The Consumer Electronics Association and CTIA-The Wireless Association, a trade group that represents carriers led by Verizon Wireless and Dallas-based AT&T Inc. , are lobbying Washington to do something about the forecast “spectrum crunch.” When AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile last year, part of the reason was to acquire its spectrum.

In February, Congress approved auctions of unused television airwaves for use by wireless services in an effort to alleviate future shortages. But the rules haven’t been written yet.
Congress has said it’s going to be voluntary, said Shive, who is also on the executive committee of theNational Association of Broadcasters.

Independent television operators may want to cash out of their spectrum assets, but the business model is different for a network-affiliated station, she said.
Belo is already on the record as saying that it probably won’t sell its spectrum licenses. “We want the opportunity to innovate and build new business models around it that support free live TV,” Shive said.

But not knowing how the auction rules will work, it’s hard to put a value on the television station licenses, Shive said. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox will probably build their own mobile digital businesses instead of turning over spectrum they aren’t using to others. As the number of smartphones and tablets keeps rising, more video content streaming will create shortages.

“I can’t predict the spectrum crisis. But broadcast TV can be part of the solution by mitigating one-to-one streaming,” she said.

What phones will need
To watch mobile live TV, a phone will need one of the new antennas that plugs into the power charger. The antenna will be embedded in the Samsung phone that’s under development.
The smartphones will need an app to access the channels and display a program guide. The app includes program listings and shows what channels are available in each city. Mobile Content Venture is branding its app Dyle Mobile TV.

The only time Wi-Fi is needed is to download the app. “Watching Dyle TV won’t eat into your data plan,” said Todd Cadley, a spokesman for Mobile Content Venture. “Some cities may only have a couple of stations, a Fox and Univision, while some cities could have all the channels available in that market.”

Stations are still deciding whether to offer the service, so the list may change by the time Dyle TV launches, Cadley said. The timing is not final yet, “but I can tell you it’s still later this year.”

Other stations scheduled to participate are in Austin, Houston, Tulsa , St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, New York, Charlotte, San Francisco, Miami and Seattle.

Dallas-based research firm Parks Associates has said that more than 25 percent of video viewing in U.S. broadband households now occurs on platforms other than the television, such as PCs, smartphones and tablets.

Each week, roughly 25 percent of U.S. broadband households watch video on a mobile phone, and the average broadband user watches 36 minutes of video on a tablet, said Parks director of research Brett Sappington.

“One-third of U.S. broadband households streamed a TV show in the past 30 days, and these consumer viewing habits are raising expectations for new service offerings,” he said. “Proliferation of connected CE [consumer electronics] is both an opportunity for and a potential threat to traditional pay-TV services.”

Some Americans still watch TV without cable or satellite subscriptions.

About 46 million viewers, or 17 million households, receive television exclusively through broadcast signals from 1,781 broadcast television stations in the U.S., according to the National Association of Broadcasters. According to Nielsen, there are 421,700 broadcast-only homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, or 16.4 percent of area households.

The broadcasters group notes that 95 of the top-rated 100 shows in the 2010-11 season were on broadcast television.

In written testimony submitted to Congress, Belo and other broadcast companies emphasized their public responsibilities.

Shive said over-the-air television plays a vital role in providing free local news, sports, weather reports and up-to-the minute emergency information. At home, Shive has one TV in her dressing area that’s not connected to her satellite provider. “I watch it every morning, and when there’s bad weather, it’s the only TV in our house that’s receiving programming,” she said. “And if there’s a tornado, like we just had in Dallas, we don’t run our commercials.”

Follow Maria Halkias on Twitter at @MariaHalkias.

Spectrum is the range of electromagnetic radio frequencies used to transmit sound, data and video. It is what carries voices between cellphones, television shows from broadcasters to TVs and online information from one computer to the next.

There is a finite amount of spectrum and a growing demand for it as consumers buy more Internet-connected devices and want to use them anywhere, anytime.

The FCC and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration share responsibility for managing the spectrum. NTIA manages spectrum used by the federal government; the FCC is responsible for spectrum used by others.

Back to the Future: TV Antenna Makes Comeback, Gets Some Static

Fri, 04 May 2012 12:41:36 -0500

CTIA 2012 and what we'd like to see, from Mobile DTV to LTE public safety

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:26:35 -0500

TWICE: Mobile DTV Takes Spotlight During NAB Show -

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:30:05 -0500

TV Technology: 2012 NAB Show Demonstrates Mobile DTV Progress

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:31:10 -0500

Broadcast Engineering: Broadcasters poised to bring first screen to second

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:41:54 -0500

NAB 2012 ANALYSIS: Cool ideas for mobile broadcast are coming (not cellular), but in Canada?

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:25:14 -0500

Insight VAS: LG and Mobile Content Venture flaunting Android smartphone with Dyle Mobile TV service at NAB Show

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:48:43 -0500

Broadcasting & Cable: NAB: Mobile Technologies Square Off

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:27:08 -0500

Rapid TV News: NAB 2012: Dyle Mobile TV gets an LG Android smartphone and 17 new markets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:29:16 -0500