Portuguese cable TV operator Cabovisão is allegedly not paying its content providers, especially suppliers of news and thematic channels, according to local media reports. Although the operator has not commented on this subject, the financial situation of Cabovisão has been in the news in recent weeks. The same sources admit that this interruption in payments could be a strategy to [...]
Sky Deutschland has reported its first-quarter operating loss improved to €40.6 million. The company added 73,000 new subscribers at the end of March, slightly better than forecast. The pay-TV broadcaster increased first quarter revenues by 18 per cent to €318 million. “Germany and Austria are amongst the highest potential markets for pay-TV across Europe, and the acceleration of demand across [...]
Canal Plus France, including its pay TV operations in mainland France, and Africa, attracted 211,000 new subscribers during the first quarter, ending March with a total of 12,817,000 customers. Revenues increased slightly to €1.03 billion from €1 billion a year ago. In France, ARPU increased €47.6. In Poland and Vietnam, the Vivendi-owned operator attracted 81,000 pay TV customers, ending March [...]
Orange is confirming it is to close down its Orange Sport channels and will offer Al Jazeera’s Be In Sport 1 and 2 channels to its subscribers from the end of June. Orange will also distribute a news sports channel from Media365 and is in talks with Canal Plus to license it some of the sports rights held by Orange. [...]
Channel operator AMC Networks, which counts hit series The Walking Dead and Mad Men among its programming, is benefiting from the online availability of such shows, according to President and Chief Executive Officer Josh Sapan. “New viewers are finding these shows on a digital service, catching up on prior seasons and then tuning into AMC for new seasons in greater [...]
Barry-Diller-backed TV platform Aereo, which allows paying customers to record and watch over-the-air television stations online, could destroy the economic model behind television, according to a court filing from NBCUniversal The Internet TV service is being sued by all of the major television broadcasters in federal court in New York, where the service was launched mid-March. Matt Bond, NBCUniversal executive [...]
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 [...]
Despite the furore surrounding whether BSkyB is a ‘fit and proper’ holder of a broadcasting licence following the phone hacking scandal, News Corp COO Chase Carey has scotched suggestions that the company is considering selling its 39 per cent in the broadcaster. “We have no expectation to sell the Sky stake at this time,” Carey said in an analyst briefing [...]
Sky Italia has reported third quarter operating income of $40 million, an improvement of $23 million versus the $17 million reported a year ago. Local currency revenues increased 4 per cent, primarily related to increased advertising and subscription revenues. Sky Italia’s quarter-end subscriber base declined to 4.94 million due to the net reduction of approximately 86,000 subscribers during the quarter. [...]
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 [...]
