A meeting of Spain’s cabinet has given its approval to the Abertis operation controlling a 89.68 per cent of Hispasat. The green light comes at a time when Abertis is seeking to sell its shares in the satellite company. In 2017 Abertis paid €302 million to Eutelsat for the stakes, an operation subject to the […]
Broadcast technology industry body IABM has introduced its new industry model dubbed the BaM Content Chain: from Creator to Consumer. The move is designed to reflect a growing awareness on the part of broadcast manufacturers that content production and distribution is changing thanks to the impact of the internet and cloud-based delivery of content. Unveiling […]
Avril Blondelot, Content Insights Director at Eurodata TV Worldwide has presented the latest trends in terms of TV content, noting the continued appeal of the medium and its willingness to try new approaches. Speaking at Industry Spotlight conference of MIPTV in Cannes, she said that at a time when international hits are becoming scarce, we are […]
April 5th saw SES hold its AGM in Luxembourg and issue its Annual Report for 2017. Outgoing CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh admitted in his farewell letter to shareholders that not all of his objectives last year had been met. “Let me be very clear that our execution in 2017 didn’t meet all our objectives. The […]
Netflix is signing up more than 100,000 subs in France each month since the beginning of 2018 and is nearing on reaching 3.4 million subs according to daily newspaper Liberation. The figures have not been confirmed by the SVoD platform, but the service has significantly enhanced its French-speaking catalogue over the last months, as awareness […]
Pay-TV operators worldwide are continuing to invest in advanced STBs, according to research firm Dataxis. As part of its permanent Advanced STB tracker, Dataxis analysed the details of more than 240 deals made by operators worldwide in the last three years. In terms of figures, APAC and Europe are by far the leaders compared to […]
Slovenia ended the fourth quarter of 2017 with a 78.2 per cent penetration rate for the pay-TV service, up from 73.8 per cent a year earlier. According to the quarterly report of Slovenia’s Agency for Communications Networks and Services (Akos), IPTV was the main distribution technology, accounting for 52.7 per cent of total pay-TV accesses […]
A coalition of more consumer advocacy groups is to file a complaint with federal officials claiming that YouTube has been violating a children’s privacy law. They contend that YouTube, part of Google, has been collecting and profiting from the personal information of young children on its main site, although the company says the platform is […]
UKTV has appointed Ronan Hand director of programme funding. The company says the position has been created to help the broadcaster realise its ambitions for rights ownership and original commissions. Hand will be responsible for expanding UKTV’s international sales footprint and amplifying the role of advertiser funded programming within UKTV’s programme mix. Simon Michaelides, UKTV’s […]
Pay-TV is increasingly gaining ground in Spain with more and more penetration, rising from 23 per cent in 2012 to 33 per cent in 2016 and 41 per cent in 2021, according to the Conecta 2018. Pay TV in Spain report from Deloitte. The report reveals that between 2012 and 2016 pay-TV increased its number […]