Reports confirm that some North Eastern cable MSO’s have been badly hurt by Hurricane Sandy. Cablevision, in particular, which serves much of New York, New Jersey and Long Island, confirmed it was suffering from power outages and “widespread service interruptions”. Telco Verizon, which serves New York had half-a-metre of water in its 140 West Street […]
Separate statements issued by Liberty Global and Telenet in respect of the former’s planned acquisition of the Belgian cable company have highlighted a major disagreement over Telenet’s worth. Liberty Global already owns 50.4 per cent of Telenet, and September 20 made an informal bid of €35 a share for the Telenet shares it doesn’t already […]
India government officials say that some 90 per cent of Mumbai’s cable homes have now been digitised. “Not so,” implies the Cable Operators Association (COA), who say the actual figure is “around 90 per cent”. India’s cable operators, who should have completed the switch from analogue signal distribution to digital by June, and were then […]
The private equity backers of Dutch cable TV and telecoms operator Ziggo have confirmed they are selling a block of shares into the market, which were worth up to €700 million on October 24th. Cinven, Warburg Pincus and other co-investors owning 57.1 per cent of Ziggo’s share capital said they were offering 25 million Ziggo […]
The worldwide pay-TV market is growing on all major TV platforms worldwide, including cable, satellite, and IPTV, according to ABI Research’s pay-TV Market Data, which looks at average revenue per user (ARPU) and revenues worldwide. Pay-TV service revenue is expected to reach $236 billion by the end of 2012, up from $223 billion in 2011, […]
The iconic advertising campaign featuring Olympic gold medallists Mo Farah and Usain Bolt helped Virgin Media boost the number of new cable customers. Virgin said it added 39,500 customers in the three months to end-September, compared with 6,300 for the same quarter last year. Revenue was up 2.8 per cent to £1.03 billion (€1.27bn) for […]
Cable Europe has confirmed the arrival of Matthias Kurth who is joining its team as Executive Chairman. Kurth will sit on Cable Europe’s Executive Committee which has oversight of the cable industry’s main representational duties in Europe. Kurth recently held the position of President of the German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), the authority for […]
Minerva Networks, a provider of software platforms for the delivery of television services to connected devices, has announced general availability of a complete hybrid cable IP solution. Built on Minerva iTVFusion 5 and certified third-party components, the new solution enables cable MSOs to blend their traditional QAM linear content with new IP services like multi-screen […]
A new study suggests that consumers’ devotion to TV programming remains strong – even though more of them are watching it online or on tablets. The results of a survey by TVGuide.com found that 42 per cent of US TV viewers reported watching more streamed content this year over last year. While the lion’s share […]
Market research firm Infonetics has released excerpts from two recent video reports; one tracking equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video providers, and a second tracking IP, cable, satellite, and hybrid STBs and OTT media servers. “Thanks to a 7 per cent increase in encoder spending by North American cable and satellite […]