DISH Networks is testing new equipment to enable TV transmission to mobile devices this summer, according to UBS analyst John Hodulik. The satellite company recently bought the nationwide E-block license with 6MHz capacity, which could be used for one-way TV broadcasts, and will be using the DVB-SH technology which broadcasts below the 3GHz frequency.

DVB-SH improves on DVB-H wireless, which the EU recently selected as its “official unofficial mobile television standard.” DVB-based technology uses over the air transmissions to send TV signals directly to mobile devices.

Here in the states, DVB faces competition from the likes of Qualcomm’s MediaFLO, which powers Verizon’s VCast, and the recently announced WiMax-based mobile TV delivery network coming from UDCast, LG Electronics and Harris.

Too bad studies keep showing that people in the United States don’t care about watching mobile TV.

Qik to Get Cash Fix?; parent company Visivo raises $3 million in Series B round; could be used to bolster the live mobile streaming service. (VentureBeat)

Babelgum to Plunk Down Six Figures on Oil Doc; feature length Oil Sands to be the first project from the P2P TV service’s Digital Studio program. (Variety)

Puppet Video Sparks Blogging Feud; video blogger Loren Feldman mocks Fast Company TV’s Shel Israel’s interviewing skills; online fight erupts. (TechCrunch)

Verizon FiOS to Shut Down Analog Channels This Month; company phasing out local analog channels starting April 21, well in advance of the national February 2009 deadline. (Multichannel News)

HD TVs Lowering Crime Rate? Low wages in China flooding U.S. with cheap electronics that just aren’t worth stealing (just try pawning an old CRT TV). (Freakonomics Blog)

Nielsen Acquires IAG Research; Ratings company spends $225 million for TV show consumer engagement measurement service. (Broadcasting and Cable)

Sprint and CW Form Super Arrangement; Supergirl to get her own animated mobile series. (MediaWeek)

Hey, you got your mobile phone in my TV! No, you got your TV in my mobile phone! You’re both right. The big wireless CTIA show is happening in Vegas right now, and there’s a ton of mobile video news coming out of it.

NBC’s Chief Digital Officer George Kliavkoff had a bunch of things to say: NBC will create live video in support of the upcoming Olympics; it has inked a multicarrier deal to give AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion subscribers access to more than 60 WAP sites including NBC, USA and Bravo; and may be interested in creating a Hulu-like service for mobile.

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During a recent earnings call, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said that his company will “work with Apple” to ensure that Flash apps would run on the iPhone. This after Steve Jobs publicly dissed Flash as being “too slow to be useful,” and its stepsister Flash Lite as “not capable of being used with the web.”

But like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, Flash is not going to be ignored.

Adobe has seized on the release of the iPhone SDK to show Apple just how much they truly belong together. Forever. Like how they promised each other at summer camp. Narayen said:

We’ve evaluated the SDK. We can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves, and we think it benefits our joint customers. So we want to work with Apple to bring that capability to the device.

With 85 percent of iPhone users browsing the web, and 31 percent of them watching mobile TV or video, iPhone users are certainly hoping for a reconciliation. Let’s just hope Steve Jobs doesn’t have a rabbit.

EU Adopts DVB-H Standard; unofficial endorsement calls for member nations to encourage adoption of the mobile TV standard. (GigaOM)

Cell Phone Video of Chinese Protests Circulate on the Net; mobile video taking center stage for transmitting news from inside East Asia. (Slate)

CBS Exec: Combine TV and Net Ratings; during his keynote, VP and CMO Patrick Keane said online views boosted Jericho’s ratings by almost a full point. (MediaPost)

Dish Wants a Do-Over with TiVo; satellite TV company files petition with federal appeals court to rehear its patent dispute with the DVR company (and get that $94 million back). (Broadcasting & Cable)

Church of Scientology Launches Video Channel; controversial religion creates official space to express its views (no embedding allowed, though). (Mashable)

YouTube and Vancouver Film School Team Up; aspiring filmmakers can enter competition to win a scholarship to the school. (YouTube Blog)

New media network Revision3 has announced a partnership with Transpera to make all of its shows (including The GigaOM Show) available on mobile devices. Transpera’s technology will allow users to share the programming and will help Revision3 monetize its content through advertising.

This comes at a perfect time, since I’m hosting The GigaOM Show tomorrow (solo!). You’ll be able to take my bespectacled mug with you wherever you go.

Spanish company Abertis Telecom is fine-tuning a Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld Network (DVB-H) that allows cell phones to receive and play signals broadcast directly from TV towers, according to The Wall Street Journal. This would allow people to watch digitally broadcast TV programming on their cell phones as it’s being shown on regular TV. From the WSJ:

Abertis’s television-tower and satellite broadcasting is an improvement over other technologies that provide video “because it doesn’t require a large bandwidth and a broadcaster can send out a signal for an infinite amount of users,” says Abertis Telecom’s head of development, Xavier Padilla.

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