KDG's digital pay-TV subscribers totalled 844,000, up 21,000 year-on-year at the end of September. It had 1.7 million broadband and telephony subscribers adding 645,000 on the year. There were 851,700 internet and 872,000 phone customers. Average services per customer increased to 1.31 from 1.23 giving the operator 11.84 million RGUs, up 585,000 year-on-year. ARPU for […]
In a panel at a B&C event Marc Graboff, chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios; Bruce Rosenblum, president of Warner Bros. Television Group; Nancy Tellem, president of CBS Network Television Entertainment Group; and John Wells, president of the Writers Guild of America, agreed the success of Hulu and other catch up services and […]
Ericsson, the world's largest provider of telecommunications infrastructure, has signed its first deal with a television broadcaster. The 10-year contract to provide television transmission services to TV4, one of the biggest broadcasters in the Nordic region, opens a new potential market for Ericsson. Under the TV4 contract, Ericsson will take day-to-day responsibility for transmitting all […]
While AEPOC praises increasing effectiveness in law enforcement activities in many EU countries to counteract audio-visual piracy, several EU states show little involvement. Eight EU countries have still not yet named a delegate for the EU's High Level Expert group. AEPOC calls on Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands and Slovenia to join […]
Time Warner and AOL have confirmed the timing and details regarding the spin-off of AOL from Time Warner. The Time Warner board has approved the final distribution ratio and declared a pro rata dividend of the shares of AOL common stock owned by Time Warner that will result in the complete legal and structural separation […]
IMPALA, the International MHEG Promotion Alliance, has announced that South Africa – via its Digital Dzonga Advisory Council – has selected MHEG-5 as the interactive TV middleware for its digital switchover. Following on from a successful DTT trial that began last year, the SABC, South Africa's public broadcaster, led the process of developing a MHEG-5 […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid For the nine month period to September Spain’s largest cable company declared a net profit of E41 million, up 144.7 per cent, with an EBITDA of E541 million, up 3.5 per cent year on year. But revenues fell by 5.1 per cent to E1,140 million, with subscriptions also dropping […]
Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) has announced that the total subscribing households as of October 31st 2009 served by J:COM's 23 consolidated franchises reached approximately 3.26 million, up 343,100, or 11.8 per cent since October 31st 2008. Combined revenue generating units (RGUs) for cable television, high-speed Internet access and telephony services reached 5.89 million, up 655,100 or […]
Ondas Media, the satellite radio company for Europe, has teamed up with Jazz FM in a content cooperation agreement. The partnership will see distribution of Jazz FM's content on the Ondas Media digital satellite radio platform to be broadcast across the internationally recognised borders of 27 European countries.
Scottish ITV franchise owner STV is counter-suing ITV over the VOD rights to ITV shows it airs. STV was already being sued by ITV for £38 million (E42.7m) it claims it's losing by STV not screening its programmes in Scotland. STV's claim is that, though STV acquires rights for linear ITV television shows, ITV Network […]