A US federal court has ruled that the owners of the Lool IPTV service unlawfully streamed international television channels to users in the United States in violation of rights held by pay-TV operator DISH. As part of the ruling, the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas ordered a $1,050,000 (€980,000) judgement in […]
News and multimedia production company ITN has published its financial accounts for 2016, reporting record revenues of £130 million in its seventh successive year of operating profit growth. ITN said it continues to progress confidently towards its ambitious 2020 Vision growth strategy aimed at reaching £180 million revenue by the end of 2020, with half […]
TV advertising still generates $175bn worldwide and fuels many FTA networks. Now the oldest form of TV revenue is needed to monetize the OTT services of broadcasters and pay-TV operators. The audience is, by its very nature, fragmented but the data generated by OTT should provide the information to target ads right down to individuals. […]
Netflix has released its latest subscriber numbers for Q1 2017, which showed growth of 1.42 million US subs and 3.53 million international. This 4.95 million total is good, but it falls short of Netflix’s own projections for the first quarter of 5.2 million. The failure to deliver hit Netflix’s share price which initially fell 3 […]
With Netflix CEO Reed Hastings advising shareholders that the streaming service expects to cross the 100 million-member mark this weekend, Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, has suggested that the next 100 million subscribers are going to be far more likely to be watching content on mobile than the first 100 million. Speaking during Netflix’s Q1 […]
The proposed merger between India’s Dish TV and rival Videocon d2h is scheduled to complete by October, said a statement from Dish TV CEO Arun Kapoor. “We have to receive approvals from regulatory bodies like the Competition Commission of India, National Company Law Tribunal and stock exchanges. The merger is expected to be completed by […]
Set-top box maker Arris is being investigated by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) over alleged patent infringements on boxes supplied to a number of US cable MSOs as well as DirecTV’s Genie users. The allegations come from two Sony subsidiaries (Sony Corp, from Tokyo and Sony Electronics, based in San Diego) and say that […]
Florida residents must pay a higher tax if viewing programming from satellite rather than cable TV. The Florida Supreme Court made the ruling on April 13th and overturned an earlier court decision that tax rates for satellite or cable viewing should be the same. Both DirecTV and Dish Network had initially sued the state (back […]
Bitmovin, an encoding, player and analytics provider and co-creator of the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard, has joined the Alliance for Open Media. The Alliance for Open Media is a non-profit organisation working to define and develop media technologies that address the need for an open standard for video compression and delivery over the web. As […]
Most 86 years-olds are resting up and regarding each new day as a bonus. Not Rupert Murdoch, for him another day is another deal. So, it must still be extra frustrating when one of the deals you really want to do keeps being nixed by circumstances beyond your control – or, at least, circumstances you […]