All viewers who use the iPlayer to watch any BBC programmes must now be covered by a TV licence after new rules came into force. Previously, iPlayer users only needed a licence if they were using the service to watch live broadcasts. That meant it was legal to watch programmes after broadcast on catch-up without […]
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has revealed that SPN and its affiliates have entered into definitive agreements to acquire TEN Sports Network from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEE) and its subsidiaries for $385 million (€345.4m). Completion of the acquisition is subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition will add South Asia’s leading sports network to SPN’s […]
Overall satisfaction with paid streaming video service is highest among cord stackers in the US – customers who subscribe to a traditional cable/satellite service in addition to streaming video service – according to the J.D. Power 2016 Streaming Video Satisfaction Study. The inaugural study measures overall satisfaction among customers who have used a subscription- or […]
Shareholders in SiriusXM Canada Holdings, which controls the pay-radio broadcaster ‘north of the border’ in Canada, have approved a resolution to go private. The vote supports a C$275 million recapitalisation scheme. Canada’s CBC public broadcaster will sell its shares and the end result will see the US ‘parent’ own 70 percent of the economic interest […]
Further expanding its presence across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Discovery Communications has formed a partnership with BHS Media. The partnership allows BHS Media to use Discovery’s content and branding to create and launch a brand new free-to-air lifestyle channel, Home & Health Farsi. With a proven track record of entertaining audiences across […]
MX1, the global media services company newly formed from the merger of SES Platform Services and RR Media, has signed up Premier League Productions (PLP) after agreeing a deal with IMG, PLP’s production partner. This new contract covers MX1’s distribution of Premier League match broadcasts to TV service providers and audiences worldwide as part of […]
Digitalsmiths, a TiVo company, and specialist in personalised content discovery technology, has released the 14th edition of its quarterly Video Trends Report covering key topics across pay-TV, VoD, PPV, OTT, TV Everywhere, connected devices, and content discovery. Based on a survey of
The global market for mobile TV is exceedingly fragmented and the top 10 players accounted for a mere 23.3 per cent in 2015, according to Transparency Market Research (TMR). These companies, namely
Greece is auctioning four broadcasting licences, and the tender process started August 30th, although not without drama. A dummy run on August 29th created headaches as the electronic bidding system crashed twice. Most of the remaining 8 interested bidders (out of a starting group of 11) have expressed reservations as to the tender’s transparency and […]
A report from Macquarie investment bank has suggested that the time was now right for a deal which would see 21st Century Fox buy the 61 per cent of Sky it does not already control. “That moment has come, with Sky shares down 32 per cent [this year to date] in US$ terms,” Macquarie’s Guy […]