Sky Italia continues to lead Italy’s TV market, with a 32 per cent share (down by 1.5 per cent), ahead of RAI (30 per cent), Mediaset (28 per cent), Discovery Italia (2.4 per cent) and Cairo Communication-La7 (1.7 per cent). The annual report from Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom) confirms a high degree of concentration in […]
UK advertising-funded public service broadcaster Channel 4 says it is well positioned for the future after delivering a second successive year of growing revenues to record levels as the 2016 Annual Report shows. Corporation revenues totalled almost £1 billion (£995m/€1.12bn), compared with £979 million the previous year, with digital revenues making up over 10 per […]
According to the latest connected entertainment research findings from market research and consulting company Parks Associates, over 50 per cent of US broadband households now watch Internet video on a television screen. “For years, the television has been the stronghold for the traditional TV industry,” said Brett Sappington, Senior Director of Research, Parks Associates. “Today, […]
BBC iPlayer has made it even easier for some viewers to restart live BBC programmes, meaning that tennis fans keen to catch all the action from this weekend’s Wimbledon finals are in luck, even if they’re running late, they won’t miss a moment of the drama from Centre Court. With the push of a single […]
A number of established US Internet giants have joined a protest against plans to roll back rules protecting ‘net neutrality’. Today (July 12th), the companies’ respective websites will display a variety of messages, or simulate the potential effects of losing the basic principle of all Internet traffic being treated equally, to highlight their qualms. US […]
Orange Spain has launched a new VoD service branded Últimos 7 días (last 7 days) that allows subscribers to watch TV content broadcast over the previous week. Over 8,000 titles will be available each week including movies, TV series and programmes. Subscribers to the Premium channels will be able to watch the content across all […]
Israel’s Securities Authority (ISA) on July 11th halted trading in shares in Bezeq Group as the ISA expanded to investigate the provision of satellite capacity agreements between DTH operator ‘YES’ and satellite operator Spacecom. The ISA trading decision affects four Bezeq-related quoted companies (Bezeq itself, Spacecom, B Communications, and Internet Gold). It is a matter of […]
In a move that brings together the broadcast industry’s most extensive end-to-end content services, media logistics and distribution offering, media services companies TVT has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of DMC (Digital Media Centre) an Amsterdam-headquartered company and part of AMC Networks International, a division of AMC Networks Inc. The cash transaction was […]
Targeted, or addressable, TV ad spending in the US is growing quickly, but will remain a small portion of total TV spend for the foreseeable future. According to eMarketer’s latest forecast,
The European Parliament Industry and Culture committees has voted in favour of an unwaivable right to fair remuneration for authors and performers for the making available of their works. Supported by the European audiovisual authors’ community, such a remuneration right would ensure that screenwriters and directors receive royalties when their works are exploited on on-demand […]