With the closing of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Discovery says it has delivered on its commitment to engage more people, on more screens than ever before across Europe. Viewers embraced Discovery’s production of the Olympic Games in record numbers, including the most immersive coverage, every minute live on digital, and the best experts analysing […]
The BBC’s coverage of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games was streamed 22.2 million times across BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer, smashing the previous record of 6.2 million streams for the Sochi 2014 Games. BBC TV coverage attracted an overall audience of 33.2 million with a peak of 4.1 million on February 17th for Yarnold […]
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the country is building what will be Africa’s biggest “and most lucrative” free-to-air TV platform. “With over 24 million TV households, and being the capital of African creativity in Music and Film, I am now more than convinced that we will also become the capital […]
The Isle of Man’s Department for Enterprise has appointed a local consortium led by Greenlight Television, and supported by Isle of Man-based SES and Duke Marketing, as host broadcaster for the TT Races and Classic TT from 2018 onwards following a recent tender process. Greenlight Television is one of the world’s leading motorsport television producers […]
Pay-TV in Spain is significantly increasing its revenue share well ahead of FTA. In the third quarter of the year, pay-TV made €523.1 million, up 14 per cent on the same period last year, according to the CNMC. Meanwhile, FTA TV’s revenues amounted to €371.4 million, up just 3.6 per cent. Most of the pay-TV […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset is planning to launch two new free-to-air TV channels later this year. In April, the first new channel branded ‘20’ will take the place of Rete Capri on national DTT channel position 20, hence the name. It will broadcast in SD and the programme schedule will consist of recent movies and […]
Equity researchers from Deutsche Bank have issued a note to investors following the news that German commercial network broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has appointed a new CEO – former Dyson executive Max Conze – to replace Thomas Ebeling. As the researchers remind investors following the publication of results February 22nd, Pro7Sat.1 has issued three profits warnings over […]
Research from marketing science academic Professor Karen Nelson-Field has uncovered new insights into how and why video advertising works for brands when viewed on mobile devices. The ‘mobile edition’ of Professor Nelson-Field’s ongoing
Free TV on demand service UKTV Play is now available on NOW TV devices and Roku streaming players. The UKTV Play app hosts shows from multichannel broadcaster UKTV’s channels Dave, Yesterday, Really and Drama, including exclusive UKTV Originals and thousands of hours from the network’s extensive archive. NOW TV and Roku users will now have […]
Channel 4 is pulling its flagship HD channel and All4 catch-up service from Freesat in a row over carriage fees. Channel 4’s standard definition channels will remain on the satellite platform as per their obligation as a public service broadcaster. In an email to users, Freesat said: “We’re sorry to announce that All 4 and 4HD […]