Significant pay-TV growth (631,000 new subscribers in a year) is having a negative impact on FTA DTT in Spain. According to the CNMC, FTA DTT consumption fell to a record low of 76.6 per cent to March 2018 with pay TV making 20.6 per cent. DTT viewership has dropped by over 6 per cent from […]
Pay-TV revenue in Asia Pacific, comprised of subscription fees and local and regional advertising sales, will top $56 billion (€48.95bn) in 2018 after 5 per cent annual growth, according to a new report, Asia Pacific Pay-TV Distribution, from analyst firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). The Asia Pacific pay-TV industry will continue to expand at a […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar has launched a test channel to trial Netflix before the official launch of the integrated streaming platform scheduled for December. The channel will be used to test and promote Netflix amongst subscribers with trailers of series, documentaries and TV movies. To pave the way for its launch, Movistar has been recently […]
The continued operating and financial momentum at Virgin Media helped fuel international TV and broadband company Liberty Global’s Q3 results, according to CEO Mike Fries. The quarter saw record Q3 RGU additions at Virgin Media, driven by 104,000 net adds in the UK. “This achievement was supported by strong volume growth in both our Project […]
RTL Group has reported that in the first nine months of 2018 it continued its successful business development and Total Video strategy. Revenue from the period January to September was up for the fourth consecutive year – despite significant negative exchange rate effects and major sporting events such as the Winter Olympics and the FIFA […]
Discovery has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30th. Revenues of $2.59 billion (€2.27bn) increased 57 per cent on a reported basis compared with the prior year quarter. Excluding the impact of foreign currency fluctuations and the Scripps Networks Interactive, Motor Trend Group, and the Oprah Winfrey Network transactions, revenues increased 1 per […]
TiVo has revealed Q3 numbers with the company saying total revenues – despite winning extra licence and royalty payments – were still significantly down. The company’s revenues for Q3 were 17 per cent down at $164.7 million ($197.9m in the same period last year) and led to an operating loss up 395 per cent at […]
Charlie Ergen’s DISH Network is in a carriage fee dispute with HBO that is getting increasingly acrimonious. Ergen, chairman of the US broadcaster, used his quarterly call with analysts to explain his side of the dispute, saying: “This is purely an anticompetitive play that we tried to warn about.” He said AT&T is giving away […]
Ofcom has announced that Charles Gurassa has been reappointed as the Chair of Channel 4 for a further three years. Ofcom, the media regulator, is responsible for appointing non-executive members to the Channel 4 Board, subject to Government approval. Gurassa’s re-appointment by Ofcom has been approved by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media […]
In agreement with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, German anti-trust body the Bundeskartellamt has requested the referral of the Vodafone/Liberty merger case in as far as markets in Germany are concerned. In the middle of October, the parties had notified the European Commission that the Vodafone Group would like to acquire […]