Star India has issued a three-week disconnection notice onto DTH operator Bharti Telemedia, which offers its service as Airtel Digital TV. Star India is alleging that Bharti has failed to sign a distribution agreement and failed to pay subscription fees, or submit subscriber reports. “This is to inform the subscribers of Bharti Telemedia that signals […]
MultiChoice is increasing subscription fees by at least 4 per cent for its South African viewers from April 1st, and as much as 5.5 per cent for subscribers to its DStv ‘Compact’ cluster of channels, and 6 per cent for its DStv ‘Family’ and DStv ‘Select’ bundles. DStv’s top tier, all inclusive bundle will pay […]
YouView, the hybrid digital television platform, is powering more than three million set-top boxes and digital devices across the UK. The hybrid digital platform is the TV interface for BT TV, TalkTalk TV, Plusnet TV and Sony Android TV’s, integrating DTT and IP content through a visually driven user interface and cloud based data platform. […]
Eleven Sports has added to its football portfolio in Belgium with the acquisition exclusive Bundesliga rights, whilst also extending the partnership with Serie A for a further three years. The new agreement for Bundesliga starts from the 2018/19 season and will offer fans in Belgium the chance to enjoy all the big matches In the […]
Simplestream, a specialist in live and on-demand OTT services, has been chosen by Little Dot Studios, a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning content producer and broadcaster, to build a global VoD service for its Real Stories channel. Launched originally as a YouTube channel, Real Stories has grown to include over 300 high quality licensed and original […]
Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga is planning to launch an OTT sports channel in August. The president of La Liga, Javier Tebas confirmed the news in an interview with Expansion, saying: “La Liga will launch its own multi-sport Internet channel,” as a way to “better directly reach our fans”. The ethos of the channel […]
At first sight, Eutelsat’s half-year results (to December 31st) are poor, with revenues of €697 million being down 5.7 per cent on the same period last year and on like-for-like trading. The poor numbers extend to Eutelsat’s usually buoyant backlog of contracts in place, but this has tumbled 11.4 per cent (from €5.3 billion to […]
In keynote remarks before the German Producers Alliance, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin has highlighted collaborative advocacy to defend intellectual property protections across Europe. Speaking at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Rivkin praised the German Producers Alliance for its leadership on important industry issues, including the Digital Single […]
Canal+ Group has reported full year revenues of €5.246 billion, on par with 2016, thanks in part to a 5.7 per cent growth in the fourth quarter. As at the end of December 2017, the Vivendi-owned company had total subscriber numbers of 15.6 million, up from 15 million at the end of 2016. Some 11.9 […]
Virgin Media has revealed it will boost the speed of its fastest networks to 350Mbps from spring 2018. “Our top speed has increased 15x over the past decade – up from what now seems a ludicrously slow 20Mpbs in 2007, to a blindingly fast 300Mpbs today – and soon things are going to get even […]