An analysis of the top 75 media economies across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific by media information provider SNL Kagan, evidences strong growth prospects for IPTV The analysis notes that IPTV adoption has increased at a 92.4 per cent compound annual growth rate over the past six years and […]
By 2015, satellite TV will overtake cable TV in terms of TV households, with IPTV expected to grow 10 per cent a year, suggests research consultancy Infocom. Western Europe posted over 182 million TV households at end-2010, 40 per cent of which are watching TV via terrestrial platforms, 27 per cent via Cable TV, and […]
Consumer expenditures on entertainment media in North America and Europe grew 69 per cent to $234.8 billion in 2010, up from $138.8 billion in 2000, with cable and satellite television retaining its primacy as the leading form of entertainment media during the decade, according to IHS Screen Digest research. Fending off competition from other segments […]
According to new market data from ABI Research, 11.3 million pay-TV subscribers were added at the end of first quarter of 2011. “By the end of 2011, the total number of pay-TV subscriptions is expected to exceed 759 million,” says practice director Jason Blackwell of ABI Research. Cable TV still maintains the largest market share; […]
Orange has launched a new TV App, designed specifically for the iPad, offering access to up to 21 live channels. Instant-access functions on the app include the day’s programme schedule, full-screen mode, channel zapping and information on future programmes. The app is available to download for free from the Apple store. The app can be […]
Pay TV subscriptions in Venezuela hit 2.57 million, as at the end of March this year. Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Commission said that according to preliminary figures – which might well grow – some 45,000 net new subs have been added since December 2010. However, this is well down on the net 232,000 who signed up […]
HBO Central Europe together with leading cable and broadband Internet providers SBB – Serbia Broadband (Serbia), Telemach _irokopasovne komunikacije (Slovenia), and Telemach d.o.o. (Bosnia and Herzegovina), has launched HBO GO, the internet streaming service available to HBO subscribers with a broadband internet connection in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. HBO GO offers the latest […]
Google has moved swiftly to deny comments by its executive chairman (see below) were not a signal it is ready to violate content protection laws it does not agree with. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said in London “if there is a law that requires DNS, to do X and it’s passed by both houses of […]
Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, has said that proposals from the US and British governments to block Internet access to file-sharing websites would endanger freedom of speech and push both countries toward being more like China. “I would be very, very careful if I were a government about arbitrarily [implementing] simple solutions to complex problems,” […]
Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media Olympics and Sport, has hinted that the future for local TV in the UK is likely to be on the basis of a number of individual licensees, with IP the delivery format. Hunt told members of the Broadcasting Press Guild that he was confident the government […]