TV customers of US cable MSO Cox Communications now have several new options for watching their favourite sports, news, and entertainment programming. The company has made investments in its broadband network and applications to deliver quality content to customers online, on demand, and on TV. Disney/ESPN: As a part of multi-year agreement, Cox TV customers […]
The STB business of Motorola has gone to Arris as they beat out Pace and others with a winning $2.35 billion bid. Arris is one of those billion dollar (in fact currently about $1.75 billion market cap) that no one not in its sector has ever heard of. They are so low profile the deal […]
Liberty Global has opened its controversial €35 a share cash offer for all the stock in Belgium’s Telenet that its doesn’t already own – it is 50.4 per cent controlling shareholder. Minority shareholders will have until January 11th 2013 to accept. Liberty Global says the offer is a 12.5 per cent premium to the September […]
The global pay-TV market added nearly 47 million subscribers in 2012 reaching a total of 864 million subscribers. “The growth in satellite, cable, and IPTV markets was strong, although digital terrestrial TV growth was flat in 2012. ABI Research expects that the pay-TV market will continue to grow in 2013 to reach 907 million subscribers,” […]
IDATE has published a study on cord-cutting, based on a detailed analysis of the US market, the world’s most advanced, so that lessons can be drawn for Europe. Cord-cutting is emerging and indicates a much broader set of upheavals in the television industry. First, the economic crisis fuels tensions surrounding the primary income of the […]
Although US cable operators have some good news to celebrate in 2012, having posted their best third-quarter performance in terms of video subscribers in at least two years, they still lost nearly half a million subscribers during the period as competition from IPTV services from telcos such as Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse continued to […]
Time Warner Cable is giving cable networks a warning that they will be dropped if they aren’t worth their carriage fee and are considered to be “underperforming”. TWC is facing programming costs that have risen 30 per cent since 2008, and had only increased rates 15 per cent in the same timeframe. CEO Glenn Britt […]
Cable ONE, the USA’s 10th largest Cable MSO, has become the latest cable operator to offer the TiVo multi-screen, multi-source experience to its subscribers. The operator has selected TiVo as its exclusive software provider for all new DVRs purchased, and plans to offer its subscribers TiVo’s user experience and next-generation video services starting with TiVo’s […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its November 2012 Pay TV Services and Subscribers report. “Ongoing challenging economic conditions in the key revenue-generating markets of North America and Western Europe have resulted in slowing subscriber and revenue growth in the cable TV market,” notes Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for broadband access and […]
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes claims “cord cutting” is overstated and that the phenomenon is limited to a small segment of low income Americans. But he does see danger in “cord nevers,” younger people who never acquire cable in the first place. For them it is a question of different habits and expectations. Bewkes pointed […]