According to James Wang, Analyst, Devices/Gateways at ARK Investment Management, TV executives should feel paranoid about the rise of Netflix. At the current trajectory, ARK research forecasts Netflix will become the largest US video network by 2019. With Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Hulu and a host of niche players also experiencing rapid growth, streaming is […]
Nagra, a Kudelski Group and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, is bringing its pay-TV streaming innovation, intuiTV, to TV Connect 2016. “We’re looking forward to bringing intuiTV to TV Connect and demonstrating that the future of television is in fact television, showing how pay-TV service providers can reach a new generation […]
Research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech on the home services market – covering broadband, fixed landline and paid television – reveals a positive outlook for TalkTalk. The provider’s share of new customers in the overall home services market increased by 3.2 percentage points on the last quarter, when consumer data hacks saw around 250,000 of their […]
US consumers overwhelmingly rate cable as the most unfavourable option for TV viewing. Mohu, creator of indoor HDTV antennas, has published the results of a nationwide favourability poll, indicating high consumer discontent with the state of access to TV. Among the 1,236 of consumers surveyed on their favourability toward cable, satellite and streaming TV services, half […]
DirecTV, now owned by telco giant AT&T, has upped some of its DTH channel subscription prices in Venezuela by some 700 per cent (when priced locally). The price rises come about because of the collapse in the local currency (the Bolivar) when compared with US dollars. 1 Bolivar is now worth barely 10 (US) cents. […]
The number of homes paying for IPTV in Western Europe overtook pay satellite TV ones in 2015. According the Digital TV Western Europe Forecasts report, IPTV subscriptions will climb by nearly 7 million (up by 27 per cent) between 2015 and 2021. IPTV revenues will reach $5.77 billion in 2021 – up by $1.2 billion. […]
The BBC and BT Sport have retained the rights to The FA Cup until 2021, after the broadcasters reached agreement with the FA to extend their shared coverage of the competition for another three years. The deal also covers coverage in Ultra HD from the 2016-17 season. The Football Association has confirmed the extension in […]
Simplestream, a leading provider of live streaming and live-to-VOD solutions, today announced that it will be showcasing TVPlayer on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) booth at NAB (#SL9016). TVPlayer, one of the UK’s fastest growing consumer streaming services, is powered by Simplestream’s Media Hub platform in conjunction with AWS & Cloudfront. Developed by Simplestream, TVPlayer […]
TVPlayer, one of the UK’s most popular consumer streaming platforms with more than 600,000 unique viewers per week, has confirmed that leading international business and financial news channel, Bloomberg Television has launched on its multiscreen service. Bloomberg Television, which reaches more than 360 million households worldwide, joins 63 free-to-view channels that are available to consumers […]
The number of Dutch households with quad-play subscriptions, including both fixed and mobile services, grew to more than 700,000 at the end of 2015, according to Telecompaper’s Dutch Consumer Multiplay Market report. More than 10 per cent of all broadband subscriptions were part of quad-play plans at the end of Q4 2015, up from 6.1 […]