Here in the UK we have just closed the football transfer window. This is an artificial period of time in which all buying and selling of players has to take place. The idea is to remove the destabilisation of players coming and going throughout the season. Now we just have the destabilisation of the deadline […]
The long-running and sometime retransmission dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable has ended with the announcement that, together with Bright House Networks, they had reached an agreement for carriage of CBS-owned stations on Time Warner Cable systems across the country, as well as Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network and Smithsonian Channel. Programming on all […]
Liberty Global shares jumped last night on speculation that Vodafone could use cash from its exit from the Verizon Wireless bid for the cable MSO. Liberty shares rose 4 per cent in late trading when Macquarie Equities analyst Amy Yong speculated that Verizon could use some of the cash to bid for Liberty Global. “Given […]
French cable operator Numericable has signed 216,000 subscribers to its LaBox Fibre and has passed 700,000 customers with fibre out of 1.65 million customers, a 40 per cent penetration. Broadband Internet subs grew 11 per cent Year on Year to 1.322 million. First half revenues grew 3.8 per cent to €453 million whilst operating profit […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research released its 2nd quarter 2013 CMTS and Edge QAM Hardware and Subscribers report, which tracks cable broadband equipment and subscribers. “Once again, the cable broadband aggregation market is a tale of opposing trends: increasing channel capacity to support DOCSIS 3.0, multiscreen, and OTT video, and decreasing price-per-channel,” notes Jeff Heynen, […]
Mexico’s pay-TV is on a roll, and is growing by some 16.9 per cent annually, according to regulator Cofetel. At June 30th Cofetel says that pay-TV had exceeded 14 million subscribers. DTH continues to expand its market share, growing by 17.8 per cent in the half-year compared with 2012 and reached 7.3 million connected homes. […]
Com Hem has confirmed it will launch TiVo this year. Swedish cable operator Com Hem had sales of SEK1.108 billion (€127.3 million) in Q2, down on SEK1.148 billion a year earlier. EBITDA amounted to SEK547 million, compared to SEK541 million. Total connected homes were 1.78 million (+30,000 year-on-year). Unique subscribers amounted to 821,700, down from […]
The German competition authorities have reported they have no objections to UK mobile phone giant Vodafone plan to take over Kabel Deutschland. “Following a preliminary examination on our part, we’ve assessed that it’s more of a complementary tie-up,” the head of Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, Andreas Mundt, told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The dossier would now […]
US Democrat Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have sent a letter to Glenn Britt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Cable, and Leslie Moonves, President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corp, urging both parties to resolve the dispute that has blocked consumers across the country from receiving programming they have paid […]
Grupo TV Cable Ecuador, the largest cable system operator in Ecuador and a founding member of the TEPAL consortium, and Bireme Systems LLC have announced a strategic alliance to provide comprehensive assistance to vendors entering the Latin American market. The two companies will offer key capabilities; executive and operational relationships with Cable, Wireless, Wired and […]