Italy’s Rai Way is making a joint binding offer with F2i for Italian digital terrestrial multiplex operator Persidera. The Persidera unit, which owns and manages five DTT multiplexes, is being sold by Telecom Italia (TI) as part of Vivendi’s plan to obtain EU antitrust approval for gaining control of TI. A report from investment bank […]
MTG has signed an agreement to sell its 95 per cent shareholding in Nova Broadcasting Group in Bulgaria to PPF Group, the investment company controlled by Petr Kellner. The transaction values 100 per cent of the business at an enterprise value of approximately SEK 1,830 million (€185m). The proceeds will be used to invest in […]
Middle East and North Africa pay-TV platform OSN has signed the first partnership deal in the region with Netflix, marking what it says is a “bold first step” for industry collaboration and integration. The partnership comes amid a shifting global media landscape that sees demand for relevant and exclusive content across multiple platforms continue to […]
Star India has issued a three-week disconnection notice onto DTH operator Bharti Telemedia, which offers its service as Airtel Digital TV. Star India is alleging that Bharti has failed to sign a distribution agreement and failed to pay subscription fees, or submit subscriber reports. “This is to inform the subscribers of Bharti Telemedia that signals […]
MultiChoice is increasing subscription fees by at least 4 per cent for its South African viewers from April 1st, and as much as 5.5 per cent for subscribers to its DStv ‘Compact’ cluster of channels, and 6 per cent for its DStv ‘Family’ and DStv ‘Select’ bundles. DStv’s top tier, all inclusive bundle will pay […]
Simplestream, a specialist in live and on-demand OTT services, has been chosen by Little Dot Studios, a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning content producer and broadcaster, to build a global VoD service for its Real Stories channel. Launched originally as a YouTube channel, Real Stories has grown to include over 300 high quality licensed and original […]
At first sight, Eutelsat’s half-year results (to December 31st) are poor, with revenues of €697 million being down 5.7 per cent on the same period last year and on like-for-like trading. The poor numbers extend to Eutelsat’s usually buoyant backlog of contracts in place, but this has tumbled 11.4 per cent (from €5.3 billion to […]
Unfortunately for me, I support a football team who often have the nil end of a score line and often, frankly, they play so badly they are lucky to get nil. If Sky and BT were in a pay-TV performance league there would be a lot of places between them: Sky headed for the Champions […]
Netflix produced a huge surprise during the Super Bowl LII commercials, airing an ad that revealed the SVoD service had acquired the exclusive first-run rights to the third movie in the popular Cloverfield sci-fi franchise – and that it would be available to stream later that night. However, according to Nielsen, despite paying what would […]
Ziggo, the Dutch cable operator, has revealed it will soon make content on its Ziggo Go streaming app available for offline viewing. The app will allow users to download content and store it for several weeks. It is not yet known if all content or just specific titles will be available to be stored as […]