The RAI licence fee boosted revenues for the 5 major Italian broadcasters by 6.5 per cent to €9 billion in 2016, according to a study carried out by Mediobanca’s R&D division. Of the total, free-to-air accounts for €5 billion (+9.8 per cent), pay-TV for €3.4 billion (+2.6 per cent) and radio for €0.6 million (+3.2 […]
2017 marked a greater convergence in TV, Internet and video usage in France, according to data from meadia reaserch group Médiamétrie. Still rising, these usages complete and add to each other. In 2017, Internet and catch-up screens represented 8.7 per cent of daily individual viewing time in France. Although OTT and SVoD complete the landscape […]
Serbia’s Commission for the Protection of Competition has initiated an inquiry to establish whether leading cable TV operator SBB abused its dominant position. According to local media reports, the Antitrust launched the procedure after SBB announced it will increase the monthly subscription from 1 January 2018. The inquiry will analyse the conditions of competition in […]
A report from Phenix, a provider of global, end-to-end real-time video solutions, found that 42 per cent of US adults would only be willing to spend a maximum of between $1-$20 per month on streaming subscriptions this year, which, at current prices, limits subscriptions to just one or two per person. The study, The Streaming Wars: […]
The BBC says it will remain the free-to-air home for football after announcing it will continue to show English Premier League TV highlights for a further three years. It secured the rights following an open and competitive processwith a bid of £211.5 million (€240.5m). In the 2016-17 season, the BBC’s Premier League football programming was […]
French OTT TV platform Molotov is claiming two million active users per month, with 500,000 of them connecting daily, Jean-David Blanc, one of the founders with Pierre Lescure and Jean-Marc Denoual, told a press conference in Paris. Forty per cent of registered users connect at least five times a week. The service, which is targeting […]
Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport is offering fans the first ever live Virtual Reality (VR) coverage of the Olympic Winter Games across Europe. The Winter Olympics Eurosport VR app will be the only destination in Europe for fans to fully immerse themselves in the Games using VR, with more than 50 hours of live coverage available […]
Spain’s Telefónica has announced several changes to its management team, including the appointment a new president of its domestic business, Telefónica España, in Emilio Gayo. Gayo, former head of marketing and commercial department, will replace Luis Miguel Gilpérez and will be the righthand man of Jose María Álvarez-Pallete, the president of the whole group. Gayo […]
US broadband communications and video services provider Altice USA has confirmed that Altice One, its cloud-based connectivity platform, is now available across the full footprint of its Optimum-branded cable TV networks and includes integrated and seamless access to Netflix service. Altice One a suite of features that the operator says reinvents the connectivity and entertainment […]
Hootsuite, the social media management platform, and We Are Social, the global socially-led creative agency, have released Digital in 2018, a report of social media and digital trends around the world. Representing 239 countries and territories, the seventh annual report finds the number of Internet users in the world has now surpassed the 4 billion […]