TalkTalk signed up 150,000 new subscribers to its YouView service in the first three months of this year – making it the UK’s fastest-growing new TV service. The leap took the total number of TV customers on the company’s network to more than 230,000 at the end of March, with 12,000 new customers taking the service each week. Early data [...]
at800 has revealed the results of its recent trials in South-East and West London. It revealed that there were no confirmed Freeview problems as a result of the 4G at 800 MHz testing. The results reflect the fact that there is a very strong digital terrestrial television signal in London, and that this is transmitted at frequencies clearly separated from [...]
Motive Television has revealed it will be developing its Tablet Television technology to enable Freeview users in Britain to watch and record television programmes directly onto tablets – without the need to connect to the Internet. With Motive’s app and an antenna-tuner containing Motive’s technology, tablet users will be able to watch all the programming currently available on the Freeview [...]
Confirming earlier speculation, BT has revealed that customers to its broadband packages – not just its superfast BT Infinity product – will receive free English Premier League football when the telco launches its BT Sport channels in time for the start of the 2013-14 season. The telco also revealed it had reached agreement with BSkyB for its DTH satellite customers [...]
Now that the dust has settled down on BSkyB’s Q3 results, perhaps it is time to reflect on the overall state of play in UK pay-TV. First, and provided you ignore the deliberate fudge over actual DTH net new subscriptions, which for Q3 were probably – at best – about 5,000, but if you just look at BSkyB in pure [...]
Following the admission by John Whittingdale, Chairman of the UK House of Commons Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, that a Communications Bill was unlikely to feature in the government’s legislative programme for 2013-14, Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has revealed that a Communications Green Paper – a tentative government report and consultation [...]
Freesat, the UK’s FTA digital satellite television provider has announced strong 2012/13 results as the company celebrates its fifth anniversary. Having added around 150,000 homes in the last 12 months, Freesat lays claim to being the UK’s fastest growing established TV platform, and says it continues to outgrow pay-TV rivals. According to Freesat’s own customer research, 51 per cent of [...]
Barry Diller, founder of controversial online broadcasting service Aereo, has asserted that broadcasters who are currently seeking to have the operation outlawed are obliged to provide a signal, suggesting that their litigation is motivated by a desire to get relief from Congress in respect of carriage fees. Interviewed on Bloomberg TV’s Lunch Money, Diller described the ‘big picture’ of Aereo [...]
Jeff Bewkes, Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, has dismissed the threat of Internet streaming service Aereo, which plans to launch into further 22 cities beyond its New York launch market area. Speaking on a Keynote CEO Session on ‘Driving Future Digital Growth’ at the FT Digital Media Conference in London, Bewkes said: “I don’t think they have much of [...]
The Spanish TV ad market fell by 15.7 per cent to €409.3 million in the first quarter of the year intensifying its free fall, according to Infoadex, with Regional TV stations taking the worst part of it with a drop of 18.7 per cent. TV ad revenues in the nationwide FTA TV amounted to €371.4 million with Mediaset-owned Tele 5 [...]
