The National Football League (NFL) has renewed its exclusive partnership with Amazon Prime Video to deliver a live OTT digital stream of Thursday Night Football to a global audience across devices during the 2018 and 2019 NFL Seasons. Amazon Prime will stream the 11 Thursday Night Football games broadcast by FOX, which will also be simulcast on NFL […]
Last week’s Q1 results from satellite operator SES were encouraging and more or less on the nose in terms of expectations, but there’s a huge caveat. New CEO Steve Collar has only been in the job 22 days and is now conducting an internal review of all his divisions and departments. Previous CEO Karim Michel […]
Greece has a new pay-TV operator in the shape of cellular telco Wind. It has launched its new service, Wind Vision, with more than 60 channels as well as direct access to Netflix as well as direct access to Google services. “Our entry into the pay-TV market, with the new Wind Vision service, is a […]
Britbox, the US SVoD service, is to offer an array of programming for the forthcoming Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, including live coverage of the event in cinemas. The service, co-owned by BBC Studios, ITV and AMC Networks, will allow US subscribers to watch a live broadcast of the wedding. In addition […]
Egypt’s Nilesat saw its 2017 net profits fall by some $5 million, from a 2016 position of $73,322,889 to $68,570,487 in the 12 months to December 31st. Cairo-based Nilesat held its Annual General Meeting on April 28th and declared that it would be paying a $0.60 per share distribution to shareholders. The main beneficiary is […]
Jio Infocomm, a start-up cellular telco in India, is still adding some 26 million new subscribers each quarter since launching 18 months ago. It now reaches a total of 186.6 million. The business, a subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, was launched to the public in September 2016 and was an instant success. Jio’s core […]
Polsat TV will launch two new, regular, 24-hour premium sports channels – Polsat Sport Premium 1 and Polsat Sport Premium 2, available in the new Super HD quality and without any advertisements, and four additional premium television services, which will show UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches in the next three years. All sixteen […]
A political agreement on the main elements of revised rules to apply to audiovisual media across Europe has been reached between the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission that will likely see SVoD platforms such as Amazon and Netflix face a 30 per cent ‘made in Europe’ quota. The negotiations will officially conclude […]
Sharon White, Chief Executive, of UK comms regulator Ofcom, has warned incumbent telco BT to upgrade its copper network to fibre or risk fading away. Delivering closing remarks at an industry event in London on ‘Building a Full Fibre Future’, White told delegates – who included major investors, Chief Executives, a Secretary of State and […]
Spanish pay-TV operators are increasingly putting pressure on Mediapro, holder of the Champions League and Europa League TV rights, to reduce the asking price for the football rights. Ángel Vilá, CEO of Telefónica, warned there exists “a real possibility” that his company will not acquire the Champions League rights for the next three seasons. He […]