MobiTV’s Managed IPTV Platform for Operators Gets OK From Big Programmers

MobiTV has received approval form several TV programming groups for its white-label, hosted streaming-delivery service  paving the way for it to offer a fully managed internet-deliverd platform to smaller pay-TV providers in the U.S. this summer.The company’s MobiTV Connect system has been vetted by content partners including Fox, Viacom, Disney, NBCUniversal, ESPN Media Networks, AMC Networks and A+E Networks, representing more than 210 networks. Under those pacts, MobiTV is now authorized to ingest content once and deliver it in an app-based framework to multiple operators.For now, MobiTV does not have agreements with at least two major cable programmers: Time Warner and Discovery. But chairman and CEO Charlie Nooney said the company is in talks with every content provider and expects to have them sign off on the service by early July.