Analysis from Citizens Advice shows that in just three months, UK consumers paid an average of £160 (€179) towards unwanted subscriptions such as pay-TV, insurance and online streaming services. With the rise of subscription services available, Citizens Advice is warning consumers that while it may be easy to sign up for these services, they can be […]
Magazine company Meredith Corporation has announced that it is finally buying the Time Inc publishing group (it has tried twice before) in a “transformative” $1.8 billion (€1.5bn) deal. Meredith, which owns a portfolio including Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, and Shape, will fund the deal with the help of the right-wing, billionaire Koch brothers, […]
The pay-TV segments of Singapore’s telcos are all plagued by piracy and increasing OTT content service providers, such as Netflix and Hulu. OCBC Investment Research reports that the total number of pay-TV subscribers as at end-Q3 2017 fell 4 per cent to 871,000. StarHub’s pay-TV subscriber base fell 2.1 per cent QoQ to 467,000 subscribers […]
South Africa’s public broadcaster SABC wants the nation’s digital pay-TV broadcasters, Naspers-owned DStv, to start paying to carry SABC’s broadcasts. Currently, DStv can carry SABC1, SABC2 and SABC3 free of charge. SABC is the country’s Number 1 channel in terms of viewer popularity. SABC has formally written to the country’s media regulator ICASA to change […]
AsiaSat 9, the most powerful member of the AsiaSat fleet, is fully operational at 122 degrees East following successful migration of all services from AsiaSat 4, delivering enhanced power, greater bandwidth and improved efficiency to customers for advanced DTH, TV distribution, VSAT broadband and mobil ity services across the Asia-Pacific. “Our brand new AsiaSat 9 […]
Together with Orange Polska, global sports provider Eleven Sports has become one of the first sports platforms in Poland to offer 4K resolution to fans with the launch of Eleven Sports 1 in 4K. The new channel will offer full 4K coverage of top sporting events including Bundesliga, LaLiga, Serie A and Ligue 1 football […]
US streaming service Hulu has acquired exclusive US SVoD rights to two Studiocanal series – Below the Surface and Midnight Sun. Beatriz Campos, head of international sales at Studiocanal, said: “We’re extremely pleased to partner with Hulu in our first deal together. With the expanding popularity of foreign language series in this key market, we […]
The latest entertainment trends research from The NPD Group, a global information company, reveals a telling shift in how much time Americans spend watching TV and movie content – and how they’re watching it. As subscribers to Netflix, Hulu and other SVoD services continues to increase, so too does the amount of time viewers watch TV […]
Canal+ Group has extended its DTT offer EasyTV to a third city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Matadi, after already rolling out in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa. Priced at €7, the service gives access to 32 channels, local channels RTNC, RTVA, national and international. EasyTV is also coupled to Canal+ African channel A+. […]
Humax’s Sales Director, Rob Peacock, has been appointed to The DTG Council replacing Graham North as the Humax representative. The DTG Council is the governing body of the DTG, the UK’s unique self-funded collaboration centre for innovation in digital media technology. Peacock became UK Sales Director at Humax in November and is responsible for the […]