The Spanish Administration will allocate €172 million to help Spaniards retune their antennas in the second digital migration. €150 million will be allocated to local communities to finance the adjustment of antennas and €22 million to operators to simulcast their transmissions. The State Secretary of Digital Advance, Francisco Polo, confirmed at MWC in Barcelona that […]
Bohemian Rhapsody is the champion on the Official Film Chart, climbing to Number 1 in the same week it picked up four Oscars at the 91st Academy Awards. OfficialCharts.com has also revealed that Bohemian Rhapsody is the UK’s fastest-selling digital download movie of all time, selling nearly 265,000 digital copies in its first eight days. […]
ITV has reported a rise in pre-tax profit as growth in online offset a decline in spot advertising revenues. However, eluding to Brexit uncertainty, the UK commercial broadcaster warned economic and political headwinds for the UK will have an effect on the advertising market. For the 12 months to December 31st 2018, pre-tax profit rose […]
SES has unveiledits 2018 results, and after three years of top line declines in some of its key divisions, CEO Steve Collar reported a return to group organic revenue growth of 1.9 percent. Importantly, SES said that it believed it is making “considerable progress” with its C-band initiative for the realignment of some 200 MHz […]
The Mexican video entertainment market saw steady 2 per cent growth in 2018. However, this doesn’t fully reflect the structural changes in the wider video landscape, according to the latest Video Insights report from Futuresource Consulting. Home video spend (DVD, Blu-ray, EST, SVoD & TVoD) grew 20 per cent in 2018 to 10.3 billion pesos. […]
Spotify has confirmed that its music streaming service is now available in India with all-new features that are finely tuned to Indian music fans’ personal tastes. As many Indians speak several local languages, Spotify’s music recommendation engine can be tuned to Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu. Indian users can select their preferred language(s) to receive […]
Research from Openwave Mobility has found that over the past five years, video on mobile networks has grown on average 50-60 per cent year-on-year (YoY), while in many developing markets, the rate is more than twice this. The findings are part of the latest Mobile Video Index (MVI), now in its third edition. Along with […]
Discovery, the US media giant, has reported financial results for the full year and fourth quarter ended December 31st 2018. Full year revenues increased 54 per cent to $10.6 billion (€9.3bn) on a reported basis compared with the prior year. Excluding the impact of foreign currency fluctuations and the Scripps Networks Interactive, MotorTrend Group and Oprah […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, North Valley Pubs Limited (the Tenant) and Debra Tait (the Designated Premises Manager (DPM) of The Melody Bar , and Samantha MacKay (the DPM) of Stirrup Stane , both in Scotland, have each been ordered to pay £10,000 (€8,800) in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky […]
The so-called YouTube/Netflix video tax, imposed upon French OTT platforms since January 1st 2018, will bring a relatively small €10 million to film and TV funding body CNC. Talking to daily Le Figaro, CNC president Frédérique Bredin said that compared to “movie theatres that will pay €140 million and TV broadcasters €290 million.” the contribution […]