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Sky Store TV app on LG Smart TVs

LG Electronics has confirmed that UK owners of its Smart TVs will be able to benefit exclusively from the introduction of the Sky Store TV app integrated into the LG webOS platform. With new movies, such as Beauty and the Beast, to Kong: Skull Island and Logan added every week, Sky Store allows users to […]

August 8, 2017

Arqiva gets closer to IPO or sale

Sky News is reporting that UK communications giant Arqiva has appointed four investment banks to advise it on either a London stock market listing, or a complete sale. Sky says the banks are Barclays, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and JP Morgan. The news confirms numerous market rumours these past months that the company’s current owners (a […]

August 7, 2017By Chris Forrester

Digital movies boost US H1 home ent spending

US home entertainment spending has grown 3 per cent so far in 2017, reaching nearly $4.5 billion (€3.79bn) for the quarter and more than $9 billion in the first half, with consumers continuing to spend more on digital transactions to enjoy movies through electronic purchases and video on demand, according to home entertainment trade association […]

August 4, 2017

Report: Can anyone match Apple, Huawei tablet success?

After 13 straight quarters of year-on-year tablet shipment declines, Apple posted a huge increase in Q2 2017 of +15 per cent. Meanwhile, Huawei has thrilled the industry for the last two years with sustained growth through a proven strategy of partnering with carriers and a good portfolio mix, tacking on another 42 per cent growth […]

August 4, 2017

Sky introduces anti-churn loyalty programme

Having revealed in its Full Year results that on a 12-month rolling basis churn was 11.5 per cent, Sky has taken steps to address the problem, with the introduction of Sky VIP, which it describes as the first tenure-based loyalty programme in the TV and Broadband sector. Sky foreshadowed the initiative in its results announcement, […]

August 3, 2017By Colin Mann

Deutsche Telekom Q2 exceeds expectations

Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s biggest telecom company, has posted quarterly results that topped expectations, with a 9 per cent rise in core profit powered by strength in the US and modest gains in Germany and Europe. The German telco lifted up its 2017 outlook for core profit to around €22.3 billion from €22.2 billion. Q2 results […]

August 3, 2017

SoftBank eyeing Sprint, DISH merger?

A couple of months ago, Japanese media conglomerate SoftBank was attempting to engineer a merger between Intelsat and would-be satellite operator OneWeb. Intelsat’s debt-burden stymied that deal. Now SoftBank is reported to be behind a merger between US cellular telco Sprint, and Charlie Ergen’s DTH operation DISH Network. Shares in Sprint jumped 10.3 per cent […]

August 2, 2017By Chris Forrester

Multi-territory linear, multiplatform deals for VIMN

Viacom International Media Networks Southern and Western Europe, Africa and Middle East (SWEMEA) Cluster has secured what it describes as a string of important milestones and deals, covering linear, SVoD and multiplatform distribution in Europe and Africa. VIMN launched the MTV Play VoD mobile app in Germany and Austria. SVoD carriers Showmax and iflix will […]

August 2, 2017

Sony road to recovery?

Sony has posted a quarterly profit at the top of analyst estimates on demand for smartphone camera chips, good music business and PlayStation 4 consoles and games. Operating profit was 157.6 billion yen (€1.18billion) in the first quarter ended June. Sales rose 15 per cent to 1.86 trillion yen, topping predictions. After a year that included […]

August 1, 2017

Mobibase, FNL Network distribution agreement

Mobibase, a TV channel and VoD provider that distributes content globally to any connected device, has signed a new distribution agreement with FNL Network, a fashion and lifestyle 24/7 news channel. With the addition of this fashion-centric channel to its assorted catalogue of TV and VoD offerings, Mobibase will be able to deliver even more […]

August 1, 2017