M&A fever was driving media stocks higher on Monday with sports rights owner Perform Group surging and broadcaster ITV on the rise. Perform, which commercialises multimedia sports content across digital platforms, saw its shares rise 26.5% after the company confirmed it had received a takeover bid
Read moreMotive Television saw its shares inch higher on Tuesday after an announcement was made about Tablet TV, its joint venture with Granite Broadcasting Corporation. Consulting firm Frank N. Magid released a statement saying that the timing of Tablet TV's San Francisco-area beta launch "looks to be ide
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Motive Television PLC Thursday said it expects to move from development to growth during 2014 as its products move towards commercialisation, while it posted a widened pretax loss in 2013. The company posted a pretax loss of GBP3.1 million in 2013, widened from GBP1
Read moreLosses widened at AIM-listed Motive Television in 2013 as it looks to move "from the development to the growth stage" in the current year. Turnover increased 7.3% to £1.17m in the year, with operating losses reduced 14.3% to £1.86m, although pre-tax losses more than doubled from £1.33m to £3.05m, h
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Motive Television TV saw its shares slide Friday after it warned that a Freeview Tablet TV application that it was hoping would be launched ahead of next month's football World Cup would now likely miss the event because testing and de-bugging of the technology was taking
Read moreShares in broadcaster ITV dropped by nearly six per cent on Wednesday after the company underwhelmed with a first-quarter update, dragging the UK wider media sector lower. The company more or less met analysts' forecasts with total external revenues up 2% to £585m in the first three months of its f
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Motive Television PLC said Wednesday that its patent applications for its Tablet TV technology in the US are progressing, and that it had filed a new application in the US this week to allow for wider coverage. It expects at least three separate applications to be p
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Motive Television PLC Tuesday said it has secured up to GBP3.0 million of investment through a placing of convertible securities with New York-based Bergen Global Opportunity Fund, as it looks to fund the anticipated acquisition of the last third of its Spanish subsidiary
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Motive Television PLC said Thursday that it had been informed by Siyaya Free to Air TV Ltd, with whom it has a five-year contract to operate a video on demand platform, that it had received one of five licenses it needs to operate a pay television service in South Africa.
Read moreMedia group Motive Television's subsidiary, Motive Televisions Services, has signed a software agreement with China-based Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology to supply set top boxes in support of the Siyaya DTH services. Last month, the group announced its subsidiary had begun the installation pro
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