Kudelski looks for deal with OpenTV as way to enter interactive TV business

摘要

Kudelski, the Swiss conditional-access provider, is looking to acquire OpenTV, the US interactive television company controlled by John Malone's Liberty Media. New Media Markets has learned that Kudelski has made a series of approaches to OpenTV this year. One executive familiar with the situation said that previous offers tabled by Kudelski, which owns the Nagravision security system for pay-television, had been rebuffed by OpenTV.