The Football TV price war is intensifying in with the launch by Orange of the lowest-cost football package for Spanish bars available on the market. For €253.6 a month bars get a convergent package with live football games from La Liga and Segunda División (second division), Copa del Rey, the Champions League, the UEFA League […]
Given the poor economic prospects of most countries in the region and pay-TV market slowdown, the Eastern Europe Pay TV Operator Forecasts report from Digital TV Research notes that 44 of Eastern Europe’s top 64 operators will increase their subscriber bases between 2015 and 2021. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “So […]
Portuguese cable TV operator Cabovisão has rebranded as Nowo, with the aim of providing a low-cost alternative to the bundled offers dominating the local market. The basic offer will consist of a package with a 100 Mbps Internet connection and 33 analogue TV channels, costing €19.99 per month. All those who want can then add […]
Homes with SVoD subs for Netflix, Prime and others are watching more TV overall than pay TV-only homes and are turning way from pay-TV services. Guy Bisson of Ampere Analysis told
Following the earlier release of a number of regional studies, content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA, in partnership with international research and strategy consultancy MTM, has published the global learnings from the Pay-TV Innovation Forum, a comprehensive research programme launched earlier this year which examines the state of pay-TV innovation around the world. […]
TiVo has released findings from a sponsored survey of pay-TV and OTT service subscribers in the US, Europe and Asia. The global study is a follow up to Rovi’s 2015 consumer survey, delving deeper into how viewers engage with content and explore the services and devices that make up their entertainment lifestyle. Above all, this […]
Internet video will account for 80 per cent of total consumer Internet traffic by 2019, compared to 64 per cent currently, according to a report on audio-visual services in the digital era by Rome-based think-tank i-Com. During the period 2010-2014, consumer revenues for SVoD services grew from €40.7 million to €844.1 million in the 22 […]
South African pay-TV operator DStv has significantly increased the number of channels it offers users to its DStv Now on-demand app. Seventeen extra channels have been added including choices from MTV, Fox, Nat-Geo and DStv’s own ‘SuperSport’ brands, taking the overall total to more than 60. The DStv Now app is free to all DStv […]
SFR Media’s SVOD platform Zive will be rebranded SFR Play before the end of the year, says its managing director Alain Weil. SFR Play is currently the name of the bouquet that already runs movie, discovery, TV series and youth channels as well as Zive. Like Zive, SFR Play will still be integrated to SFR […]
Ericsson and Google are partnering to extend the reach of the Ericsson cloud-based MediaFirst TV Platform into the Android TV ecosystem, Google’s operating system for the set-top-box. Ericsson MediaFirst is a software-defined, media-optimised end-to-end portfolio suite for the creation, preparation, management and delivery of next generation pay-TV to any screen with an immersive TV viewing […]