India’s public broadcaster Doordarshan has won support from the Indian Information & Broadcasting Ministry in its request to gain ‘must carry’ status on the country’s cable networks. The Ministry has issued a mandatory notification to the cable MSOs that 21 Doordarshan channels, plus 3 others, must be carried once the MSOs have digitised their circuits. […]
US cable TV provider Cox Communications has revealed that its customers can now enjoy an all-access free pass to the best of autumn TV with the opportunity to catch up on past seasons of popular shows plus get exclusive On-Demand sneak peeks, all in the ‘Fall FreeView’ On Demand until September 29th. With more than […]
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a specialist in advanced solutions for the connected home, has unveiled ADB Wideband, an eight-tuner, hybrid cable HD DVR designed for the multi-screen era that acts as a media hub for the redistribution of content to tablets, smartphones, connected TVs and other set-top boxes. ADB Wideband enables consumers to watch live […]
In a move that sees a major OTT service available for the first time on an established pay-TV platform, UK cable MSO Virgin Media has struck an agreement with Netflix that will see the service feature on the operator’s platform. Using the Netflix app, Virgin Media TiVo households will be able to watch award-nominated Netflix […]
BluePromoCode, a California-based marketplace for group discounts, has published the results of a newly commissioned study on the cable and Internet TV viewing habits of young adults aged 18-34 in the US. Highlights of the findings include: – 35 per cent have stopped subscribing to pay-TV, opting to use online services only – Women are […]
Shareholders in Kabel Deutschland have expressed concern that Vodafone’s bid for the German cable MSO could fail if the minimum 75 per cent acceptance level is not reached by this Wednesday in the first part of a two-stage tender process, reports the FT. Kabel Deutschland shareholders must tender their shares by this date. Some of […]
The global pay-TV market continues to grow in the first two quarters of 2013, adding 23 million new subscribers for a 3 per cent increase, according to ABI Research. In particular, telco TV and satellite TV growth was robust while cable and terrestrial pay-TV services experienced virtually flat growth. “ABI Research expects that worldwide pay-TV […]
CBS CEO Les Moonves told CNBC that an important aspect of its month-long battle with Time Warner Cable was securing the digital future of content. ”It was important we take a stand. This is a stand about content and how content is sold and how it goes to our consumers and how it will be sold […]
IDATE has published its report on the Internet of Things market. It provides an opportunity to clarify the frontiers of this new market and to present and analyse the key building blocks; the market structure, the players’ strategies and the dynamics of the key vertical markets (automotive, aeronautics, energy, food and retail, connected home, healthcare, […]
According to the most recent report from media research specialist SNL Kagan, there is no spoiler alert needed for the second-quarter US multichannel subscriber movement. The seasonally soft period followed the script of a mature industry that is concurrently struggling to make gains while still holding a significant but not absolute share of the US […]