Spain’s largest cable company ONO has launched a massive campaign to boost subscriptions to its advanced service TiVo, now with just 16,000 clients. The campaign called ‘I love TiVo’ offers significant discounts to current subscribers who successfully recommend TiVo to friends or relatives. Those subscribers who secure a new TiVo client for ONO will be granted a discount of €40 and [...]
Cable operator Liberty Global reconfirmed its full year guidance targets as fourth quarter consolidated revenues went up 12 per cent year-on-year to $2.54 billion, driven mainly by the addition of KBW and Aster and organic revenue increase. Excluding the acquisition of KBW and Aster, revenue lifted 5.5 per cent to $2.54 billion. Liberty Global said the integration of the two [...]
Cable operators are rushing to push content and services to a wide range of consumer devices, including iPads and smartphones, but the lack of management software to track and coordinate delivery platforms will cause some MSOs considerable pain, according to a report from Heavy Reading Cable Industry Insider. “As multi-screen options proliferate with more devices and content, the challenges will [...]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO ended the first quarter with a net benefit of €15 million, up 66.2 per cent, over total revenues of €383 million, up 5 per cent with EBITDA growing by 4 per cent to €186 million. ONO’s TiVo service is increasingly growing with now 16,000 clients. Today, 60 per cent of its base with access to [...]
At The Cable Show 2012 in Boston, May 21-23, Arris Group will showcase an array of new products that expand its vision of next generation converged IP solutions. The Company will demonstrate how it can help cable service providers reach their service goals and satisfy subscribers’ demands for bandwidth, content and anytime/anywhere flexibility. “Today’s consumers expect to move between screens [...]
Danish cable operator TDC’s Q1 revenue increase 0.5 per cent to DKK 6.644 billion (€880m). Profit for the period excluding exceptional totalled DKK 740 million, down by DKK 133 million (15.2 per cent). TDC saw its best quarterly pay-TV subscriber growth with 37,000 additions driven by HomeTrio Mini and YouSee following market changes. The number of VoD sessions in Q1 [...]
Zon Multimedia shares rose as much as 1.3 per cent after shareholder Isabel dos Santos increased her stake in Portugal’s biggest cable-television provider to 14.9 per cent. Dos Santos agreed to buy 4.9 per cent of the Zon through her Amsterdam-based holding company Jadeium, adding to the 10 per cent stake she already controlled through Kento Holding Ltd., Lisbon-based Zon [...]
Mexican MSO Megacable reported 1.98 million pay-TV subscribers, up 15 per cent y-o-y, with 1.04 million of that number hooked up to the company’s digital services (53 percent of the total). Megacable enjoyed a dramatic shift towards digital during the year, with growth of 78 per cent. Megacable started its digital roll-out a year ago in order to boost signal [...]
With cable and satellite TV platforms facing the threat of ‘cord-cutting’ from viewers cancelling their pay-TV subscriptions in favour of connected TV and over-the-top TV alternatives, US cable TV industry trade body the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) has launched a multimedia campaign positioning cable as being ‘More than TV. It’s How We Connect’. “Cable has come a long [...]
Comcast, the largest cable company in the US, reported a 30 per cent profit increase in the first quarter, beating expectations on the strength of Super Bowl advertising and its popular broadband service. It reported that its net income rose to $1.22 billion between January and March, up from $943 million in the same period a year ago. Revenue rose [...]
