A new report on UK cable operator Virgin Media’s prospects (from investment bankers Morgan Stanley) says that TiVo’s functionality will make life very hard for YouView or BSkyB. Virgin’s senior staffers say that their TiVo box, now rolling out to its customer base, will beat to the punch the UK’s digital terrestrial service YouView and […]
Japanese cable services provider Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) has concluded an agreement with Sotetsu Holdings on buying a controlling stake in Yokohama Cable Vision, which is owned by Sotetsu. Yokohama Cable Vision (YCV) operates in Yokohama with 260,000 homes passed. J:COM will buy 51 per cent of the shares in YCV and Tokyu will buy 49 […]
In the battle between the telcos and cable TV industries, cable service providers are pulling ahead of telecoms service providers. According to data from TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Pay-TV research service, in Q2 2011, the number of IPTV subscribers worldwide exceeded 50 million as telcos continued striving to exploit their fixed broadband customer base to gain a […]
Collectively, US pay-TV providers lost 400,000 subscribers in the second quarter – their single worst period in over three years, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. Cable TV took the brunt of the hit, though Satellite operators were not left unscathed. While much of the subscriber loss can be attributed to traditional economic […]
German cable giant Kabel Deutschland has confirmed it will be adding eight new HDTV channels. Six will go live on October 5 (Pro7 HD, Sat1-HD, kabel eins HD, Sixx HD, and Servus HD).Two other channels will then be added in December. K-D says that by year-end it will be offering 26 HD channels. With the […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO looks likely to acquire regional cable operator Telecable that operates in the Spanish regions of Asturias and Extremadura with around 160,000 subscribers. The operation, led by the French bank Societe General, is to be concluded before the end of this month. In the race to acquire the company there is […]
As part of a broader reorganisation this summer, Canoe Ventures has hired Jonathan Bokor as general manager in charge of interactive TV solutions, promoted Chris Pizzurro to be GM of VoD advertising solutions and recruited Sanjay Patel as vice president of marketing. Last month, Canoe CEO Kathy Timko reshuffled the senior management team of the […]
Despite a decline in video subscribers, the second quarter proved to be a strong period for the US pay-TV business, with revenue-generating units (RGU) for cable rising due to the expanding broadband and telephony segments, according to IHS Screen Digest. The researcher, which reported yesterday European cable’s resilience to cord cutting, said the number of […]
Despite the rising US trend of cord cutting, the European cable market continued to expand in 2010, with revenue throughout the EU rising by nearly 8 per cent for the year on the strength of double-digit growth in digital television, broadband and telephony subscribers, according to the IHS Screen Digest. Total European Union cable revenue […]
White-label video publishing company and independent subsidiary of Comcast, thePlatform, has been selected by international cable operator Liberty Global to provide the back-end video management system across its online video properties. Liberty Global – which has operations in 14 countries – will use thePlatform’s ‘TV Everywhere’ solution to enable subscribers to catch-up and watch more […]