The US Tennis Association and ESPN have agreed an 11-year broadcast deal – reported to be worth $770 million – for ESPN to be the exclusive home in North and South America of the US Open from first ball through the women’s and men’s championships each summer from New York beginning in 2015. ESPN now will air the championship in [...]
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 [...]
CASBAA has commented on Vietnam’s ‘Decision 20′ pay-TV regulations which came into effect today. As a result of confusion over the regulations, one satellite provider has taken down 21 international channels. John Medeiros, Chief Policy Officer at CASBAA, said in response to media queries that the situation regarding Vietnamese regulation of the pay-TV industry is notably unclear. “Even Vietnamese operators [...]
US pay-TV provider DISH is offering new subscribers the choice of an iPad 2 instead of first year programming discounts for customers who sign up for the Hopper with Sling Whole-Home HD DVR and a qualified programming package. Customers can then watch all their live TV, DVR recordings and On Demand shows using their Pad tablet anywhere. (Viewing requires Wi-Fi [...]
Within a week of BT announcing plans to offer free sports channels, including live Premier League football games to its broadband customers, 15 per cent of Sky’s TV and broadband customers say they are interested in receiving them, according to a nationwide survey by Usurv. Six per cent of existing Sky TV customers revealed they will consider terminating their Sky [...]
Pay-TV business in Spain is not going well. In the first quarter of the year the pay-TV market lost 98,000 subscribers as a whole with the financial crisis, higher taxes and less money in consumers’ hands being the main reasons behind the sharp fall. The leading pay-TV operator Canal Plus lost 28,000 subs to 1.69 million, the lowest subscription level [...]
BSkyB now faces a more aggressive challenge from BT Sport than at least one analyst had anticipated. BT Sport will be made available free to BT’s broadband and ADSL customers, and thus has “laid down the gauntlet to BSkyB, which has been steadily growing market share, primarily in ADSL,” according to Sara Simon, media analyst at Berenberg Bank. A report [...]
BSkyB has responded to the aggressive marketing of BT Sport’s live English Premier League football coverage by securing the rights to Home Nations and Republic of Ireland qualification matches for UEFA EURO 2016 and 2018 FIFA World Cup. The new agreement with UEFA provides Sky Sports with coverage of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, together [...]
Sky Deutschland has extended its multi-year exclusive agreement with the English Premier League. Sky Deutschland will continue to show three matches live each match day. In addition to live broadcasts. Sky will also air a highlight magazine show with the best scenes from each match day. Burkhard Weber, Senior Vice President Sports at Sky Deutschland: “The Barclays Premier League is [...]
Pay-per-view is becoming less and less popular in Spain. The rent of PPV services is dramatically falling with a drop of almost 1 million (859,935) in one year, according to data from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Last year saw 1,571,597 registered PPV sales against 2,431,533 in 2011. By comparison, in 2009 and 2008 the acquired PPV services reached 3.4 [...]
