The launch of EchoStar-23 by a SpaceX rocket was cancelled in the early hours of March 14th. The launch was scrubbed some 30 minutes prior to the opening of the launch window. A message from SpaceX talked of the launch attempt “standing down due to high winds”. There was no firm information as to the […]
The digital revolution in the entertainment business has reached a new tipping point with Britons now spending nearly 80 per cent of their expenditure on entertainment online, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association. And for the first time, entertainment has gone ‘pay monthly’ with
According to Michael Boreham, Senior Consultant at Futuresource Consulting, SVoD uptake in China is being driven by the younger consumer group, with the market having huge potential for growth driven by the desire for premium content and as the generational shift in consumer behaviour adopts SVoD as the norm. In Boreham’s study – The Cultural […]
According to data from Dataxis for the year ending 2016, Africa pay-TV subscribers stand at approximately 18.7 million subscribers which represent an increase of approximately 2 million subscribers compared to the previous year. Out of the 18.7 million subscribers, 14 million are DTH subscribers and the remaining represent mostly pay DTT with limited cable and […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has reached an agreement with Television Broadcasting System (TBS) to acquire capacity on the Alpha national DTT multiplex. The news has been reported by daily Il Sole 24 Ore and the deal is said to be worth not less than €10 million. Mediaset will get three channels on the multiplex – […]
Spanish DTT networks 13TV, DKISS, Real Madrid, Veo TV and Net TV have set up the country’s first DTT Association (Asociación Española de las Televisiones Terrestres Digitales). The Association aims to protect and defend the rights of the smallest DTT networks and aims to reach agreements with other Associations and agents in the TV sector […]
Premium television streaming service Hulu is continuing to build up the roster of channels it will offer on its forthcoming live TV streaming service by securing an affiliate agreement with A+E Networks that will bring six original brands from the A+E Networks Family to the platform. The deal adds live and on-demand streaming access to […]
BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the Corporation has launched BBC Player in Malaysia, the second country to receive the service following its successful launch in Singapore in 2016. The multi-genre service is available exclusively to subscribers of Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) IPTV service, HyppTV, through an authenticated SVoD service. Hypp TV viewers will […]
South Africa’s Multichoice/DStv dominates pay-TV in Zimbabwe. But there’s a new player in town in the shape of StarTimes-backed DTH service StarSat. StarTimes/StarSat is now operational in 16 sub-Saharan African countries, and such is its impact that in Nigeria – for example – StarTimes is now occupying the number 1 pay-TV slot. StarTimes says it […]
Dubai-based pay-TV operator is adding 14 live-streaming channels to its OSN Play ‘catch-up’ system. It takes the total to 32 channels and OSN says they will be more before this year is out. The move is another key ‘added value’ service for OSN, increasingly challenged by the MENA region’s OTT players. Moreover, the channels can […]