European policymakers are paying insufficient attention to the potential of cable networks to deliver a substantial portion of the European Commission’s Digital Agenda targets at a lower cost, says a new analysis by WIK Consult for Liberty Global. WIK Consult’s report “Rethinking the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE)” shows that the European Commission’s speed and […]
Charlie Ergen, head of EchoStar and Dish Network, loves a battle. Currently it seems half the broadcasting industry is suing him because of his proposed Hopper ad-skipping device. Hopper can automatically (“AutoHop”) jump over advertisements, and thus potentially damage any broadcast network’s ad-revenues carried by Ergen’s Dish DTH system. This week, Ergen is due to […]
The “TV Everywhere” push by US cable networks is matched by increased demand by consumers to watch programming on smartphones and tablets. Interest in viewing television on mobile devices among adults climbed to 31 per cent in 2012 from 22 per cent in 2011, according to a survey by Beta Research. Among younger adults, ages […]
The UK is Western Europe’s leading market for connected devices, with an estimated 13.8 million devices receiving over-the-top video content at end-2011, a figure up 114.1 per cent year-over-year from 2010, according to SNL Kagan research. In 2011, UK households averaged 0.51 connected devices per home, up from 0.24 in 2010. SNL Kagan estimates the […]
About 370 million digital homes were added around the world between end-2007 and end-2011 – or an average of 93 million more digital homes each year, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Databook estimated that this took the digital TV household total for the 80 countries covered in the […]
Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable operator and RTL Germany have reached an agreement on the distribution of their Free to Air TV, Pay TV and VoD content. As part of the contract, the distribution of the TV channels was agreed in analogue, digital SD and digital HD. Both parties do not disclose contractual details. As […]
Jacques Rogge, the International Olympic Committee president, has declared “everything is possible” when it comes to selling TV rights for the Games after London, raising the prospect of the BBC losing some or all of its coverage of the event. A wide range of bids from traditional free-to-air broadcasters, pay-TV companies and telecom providers is […]
The joke in the industry – totally unfairly – is that Greece’s national telco OTE started looking for a buyer of HellasSat just before the foundation stones were laid on the Athens Acropolis. However, OTE is now beginning to get some traction from sales efforts on other parts of its non-local portfolio of assets. Globul, […]
Liberty Global has announced that its subsidiary, LGI Broadband Operations, has entered into an agreement, together with investment funds affiliated with Searchlight to acquire 100 per cent of the parent of San Juan Cable, OneLink Communications. OneLink will be merged with LGI’s existing operation, Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico LLC, to form the largest cable […]
Eutelsat Communications has announced that leading broadcasters from Bosnia and Herzegovina are strengthening their collaboration with the launch of a new platform called TEAM:SAT on the Eutelsat 16A satellite. Serving a growing audience, currently standing at over 11 million DTH homes, Eutelsat 16A is the leading position for satellite broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe. […]