Qatar-owned Es’hailSat is working with beIN to show live coverage of the upcoming UEFA Euro 2016 football in 4K. Transmissions will be from Es’HailSat’s 26 degrees East slot (which it shares with Arabsat). Es’hailSat says the beIN broadcasts will be the first-ever in the MENA region to transmit live 4K sports to viewers. “beIN currently […]
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen, and covering the first quarter of calendar 2016 – continues its look at how audience behaviour is influenced by greater content and platform choice, and access to new consumer technologies. Together these changes create unprecedented opportunities to view broadcast TV and other video and affect the time spent with […]
Pay-TV operator DirecTV managed to seriously upset subscribers in and around North Dakota when it took down three ABC-affiliated stations just moments before the NBA Finals (on June 2nd) were due to start. The 3 stations are owned by Forum Communications in Fargo, North Dakota and broadcast from the towns of Fargo, Bismark and Devils […]
Almost 70 per cent of people would like new build properties to be better equipped for modern living, with people citing a desire for more storage, renewable energy, and pre-wired TV and broadband. Buying a new build remains attractive – more than half of people would opt for a new build because it allows them […]
Following the March launch of NBCUniversal International’s new all-reality SVoD service, hayu, it has now announced that Foxtel residential subscribers, whose subscription package includes the channel E! Entertainment Television, will have access to the new streaming service, as part of their existing Foxtel subscription, at no extra cost. Hendrik McDermott, SVP, Branded On-Demand, NBCUniversal International […]
OTT service Sling TV and pay-TV platform DISH have agreed a long-term renewal deal with Asia TV USA, Ltd., part of the Zee group from India and a leading provider of South Asian programming. In addition to renewing the 10 Zee-branded channels already offered on Sling TV and DISH, the new agreement includes the addition […]
The 92 Premier League and Football League clubs generated more than £4 billion in revenues for the first time in 2014/15, a new record, according to the 25th Annual Review of Football Finance from the Sports Business Group at Deloitte. In addition, clubs’ capital expenditure reached £305 million (€394m), the most ever invested in a […]
OTT TV and video revenues in Latin America [for 18 countries] will reach $3.59 billion in 2021; up from $32 million recorded in 2010 and more than triple the $1.15 billion in 2015, according to the Latin America OTT TV & Video Forecasts report. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, described 2015 and […]
Vodafone Italia and Discovery Italia have signed an agreement for the transmission of the free-to-air TV channels Nove, Real Time, DMax, Giallo, Focus, K2 and Frisbee on the Vodafone TV service. As a result of the partnership, Vodafone TV customers will be able to follow the entire programming Discovery Italia’s seven thematic TV channels at […]
Star TV has filed official complaints against dozens of cable operators with allegations of piracy and signal theft of its pay-TV transmissions. Police have raided certain cable operators and seized re-transmissions equipment. Typical actions, and reported by IndianTelevision.com, is operator RST Digital in Karnataka with around 2500 subscribers which is alleged to have been accessing […]