Liberty Media has revealed plans to spin off Liberty Broadband Group into a separate publicly-traded company. Greg Maffei, Liberty Media President and CEO made the announcement as the company revealed it Q1 2014 earnings. Maffei said: “We believe a separate Liberty Broadband will offer investors greater choice and transparency, and is well timed with Charter’s […]
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), the US-based specialist in training for the worldwide cable workforce, will outline new initiatives in Europe and training opportunities for European cable engineering and operations professionals at an International Breakfast at the ANGA Com Exhibition and Congress in Cologne, Germany. The breakfast will be held from 9:00 – […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO saw its losses increase by 4.3 per cent in the first quarter of the year to €24 million, with an EBITDA falling by 7.7 per cent to €165 million. Nevertheless, the company, now under control of Vodafone, increased revenues by 2.8 per cent to €410 million and added 33,000 new […]
Twenty-First Century Fox has reported $8.22 billion of total revenue for the three months ending March 31st 2014, an $866 million or 12 per cent increase over the $7.35 billion of revenue reported in the prior year quarter. The growth in revenue was driven by a $338 million increase at the Television segment, led by […]
Paying IPTV subscribers will overtake pay satellite TV ones in 2018, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Western Europe report forecasts that IPTV subscriptions will climb by 7.5 million (38 per cent) between 2013 and 2020 compared with 1.2 million additions for both pay satellite TV (up by 5 […]
Figures are up across the board for upc cablecom in the first quarter of 2014. Switzerland’s largest cable operator increased its number of subscriptions by 21,400 to 2,560,100 in this period. The company recorded the largest growth for Internet (up 11,600 subscriptions). The higher number of customers also positively impacted on the revenue, which totalled […]
Com Hem, the Swedish cable operator, has published its financial and operational results for the first quarter of 2014. Anders Nilsson, CEO of Com Hem, commented: “During the quarter we saw early signs of our strategic initiatives starting to pay off. With one of Europe’s most advanced networks as a foundation we are in a […]
Cable Europe Executive Chairman Matthias Kurth has called upon industry and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to engage in constructive dialogue on the open Internet debate to create pro-innovation and pro-consumer legislative frameworks. Kurth’s comments came in a presentation at The Cable Show 2014 in Los Angeles. According to Kurth, the timing is […]
Comcast and MGM Television (MGM) have agreed a deal that will see MGM content available through the Xfinity On Demand digital store. Xfinity TV customers can own and access movies anytime, anywhere, on any device, often before the DVD release. MGM titles to be added to the Xfinity On Demand store will include: Bull Durham, […]
MSI Data, a developer of field workforce automation software for the cable industry, has announced that its suite of cross-platform, native mobile apps for cable will be on display at The Cable Show tradeshow in booth 2440 in Los Angeles from April 29th to May 1st. MSI Data helps cable companies boost field workforce performance […]