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49% consumers believe media services free by 2025

A Xerox State of Customer Service in 2015 survey reveals that almost half (49 per cent) of consumers believe that they will not have to pay for their media services by 2025 – regardless if they prefer traditional media (48 per cent) such as film, TV, music, radio, news and sports outlets established in the […]

December 10, 2015

SiriusXM to add video, telematics

David Frear, CFO at pay-radio operator SiriusXM, told the Bank of America Merrill Lynch media conference in New York that it was in the initial stages of a ‘Request For Proposals’ ahead of procuring two replacement XM satellites. He told delegates that the two satellites were scheduled to launch in 2019 and 2020 and would […]

December 4, 2015By Chris Forrester

NextRadio TV green light for Altice takeover

French media and TV group NextRadio TV, which owns news and discovery channels BFM TV and RMC Découverte, has received approval from French TV and competition authorities (the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel et Autorité de la Concurrence) for its planned takeover by multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, content and media company Altice. On July 27th, Alain […]

November 24, 2015From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Sirius slams T-Mobile interference

Pay-radio operator SiriusXM has complained formally to the FCC that T-Mobile’s adoption of new terrestrial frequencies is corrupting SiriusXM’s own radio repeaters. T-Mobile has started using additional frequencies it bought in the FCC-authorised AWS (Additional Wireless Spectrum-3) auctions. SiriusXM claims that the T-Mobile signals, plus its own transmissions, are resulting in a third signal created […]

November 17, 2015By Chris Forrester

YouTube launches music app

YouTube has launched a new music streaming app to take on the likes of Deezer and Spotify. Branded ‘YouTube Music’, the app allows users to stream tracks and albums with or without video. YouTube Music will offer a limited free service. Users will be able to listen to tracks and watch videos while online. Those […]

November 13, 2015

US teens use 9 hours of media per day

A report released by Common Sense Media finds that teenagers (ages 13-18) use an average of nine hours of entertainment media per day and that tweens (ages 8-12) use an average of six hours a day, not including time spent using media for school or homework. Despite the significant amount of time teens and tweens […]

November 4, 2015

Al Jazeera, Mixcloud launch on Apple TV

Al Jazeera English is amongst the first wave of news outlets available on the newly launched Apple TV, providing the global news and programmes live and on demand. Users will be able to save videos for later viewing, access all saved content from the Watch List, have 24-hour access to Al Jazeera’s live video stream […]

November 4, 2015

Eutelsat good Q1, orders KA Sat-2

Eutelsat is to build a new High-Throughput Satellite especially for sub-Saharan Africa, and to be in place during 2019. The satellite will be a multiple spot-beam craft delivering up to 75 Gb/s of bandwidth, and targeting SMEs in Africa. Moreover Eutelsat has an option with sat-builder Thales Alenia to double up and so accelerate the […]

October 29, 2015By Chris Forrester

Digital music spend to overtake physical this year

Retail sales of recorded music will see little variation in total spending levels in the years to 2020 despite the rising interest in streaming, according to global analyst firm Ovum’s latest forecasts. Spending on digital formats and services will overtake physical formats this year and go on to account for almost three-quarters of all sales […]

October 28, 2015

SiriusXM continues to rock

US pay-radio operator SiriusXM reported record Q3 revenues of $1.17 billion (up 11 per cent) on October 22nd, and raised its guidance once again for its full-year numbers to reflect a growing appetite for its multi-channel radio services. Subscriber numbers are up, as is revenue and EBITDA. “With subscribers at an all-time high of nearly […]

October 23, 2015By Chris Forrester