Confirming earlier speculation, BT has revealed that customers to its broadband packages – not just its superfast BT Infinity product – will receive free English Premier League football when the telco launches its BT Sport channels in time for the start of the 2013-14 season. The telco also revealed it had reached agreement with BSkyB […]
Now that the dust has settled down on BSkyB’s Q3 results, perhaps it is time to reflect on the overall state of play in UK pay-TV. First, and provided you ignore the deliberate fudge over actual DTH net new subscriptions, which for Q3 were probably – at best – about 5,000, but if you just […]
Following the admission by John Whittingdale, Chairman of the UK House of Commons Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, that a Communications Bill was unlikely to feature in the government’s legislative programme for 2013-14, Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has revealed that a Communications Green Paper – a […]
Freesat, the UK’s FTA digital satellite television provider has announced strong 2012/13 results as the company celebrates its fifth anniversary. Having added around 150,000 homes in the last 12 months, Freesat lays claim to being the UK’s fastest growing established TV platform, and says it continues to outgrow pay-TV rivals. According to Freesat’s own customer […]
Barry Diller, founder of controversial online broadcasting service Aereo, has asserted that broadcasters who are currently seeking to have the operation outlawed are obliged to provide a signal, suggesting that their litigation is motivated by a desire to get relief from Congress in respect of carriage fees. Interviewed on Bloomberg TV’s Lunch Money, Diller described […]
Jeff Bewkes, Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, has dismissed the threat of Internet streaming service Aereo, which plans to launch into further 22 cities beyond its New York launch market area. Speaking on a Keynote CEO Session on ‘Driving Future Digital Growth’ at the FT Digital Media Conference in London, Bewkes said: “I don’t […]
The Spanish TV ad market fell by 15.7 per cent to €409.3 million in the first quarter of the year intensifying its free fall, according to Infoadex, with Regional TV stations taking the worst part of it with a drop of 18.7 per cent. TV ad revenues in the nationwide FTA TV amounted to €371.4 […]
Internet TV streaming service Aereo has announced that the platform will officially launch in Boston on May 15th. The Boston launch marks its first new market outside of New York City designated market area (DMA). Boston is the second city to launch as part of Aereo’s 22-city expansion announced in January. Beginning May 15, consumers […]
FilmOn founder Alki David has unveiled a new service which he claims allows the UK public to watch any free-to-air satellite TV channel legally, without the need for a contract or a set-top box. The service – available free via FilmOn.com – enables viewers to connect directly to a broadcaster’s satellite and digital over-the-air feeds […]
According to Giles Cottle, Head of Strategy at UK free-to-air digital satellite Freesat, the emergence of live online TV service Aereo in the US raises some interesting propositions from a service point of view. With Aereo currently in the midst of a legal battle with the network broadcasters who allege copyright infringement, Cottle, writing in […]