Analysts at Guggenheim Securities are backing Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network DTH operation and have marked it as one of its “Best Ideas” list and that Dish “offers the most significant upside opportunity in 2019”. In fact, while Dish makes the key list a previous incumbent, telco giant T-Mobile has been dropped from the listing. Guggenheim […]
Tremor Video DSP, the programmatic video platform, has announced the expansion of its suite of connected TV (CTV) capabilities that features its exclusive data partnerships. Through its platform, marketers are able to engage CTV audiences with the same granularity as previously only available on desktop or mobile. Tremor Video DSP’s suite of CTV solutions includes […]
A total of 421 national TV channels were available in Italy at the end of 2018, owned by 128 media groups, according to research by Confindustria Radio Televisioni. The figure includes DTT, satellite, time-shifted, HD, 3D, 4K, PPV and so-called temporary channels. Italian media groups own 360 TV channels, of which 129 are distributed via […]
Netflix has defended itself against a backlash to its Oscars run after many prominent names in the industry criticised its content being among the award nominess. The streaming service tweeted that they “love cinema” but feel it should be easier for people who can’t get to theatres to see films. The Tweet in full read: […]
The 2017 revenues of 81 French pay-TV channels dropped by 2 per cent over one year to €2.85 billion, following a 1 per cent decrease the previous year. According to the financial round-up established by French regulatory body CSA, which takes into account the global results from three DTT channels and 78 cable, dish and […]
Netflix is rolling out a higher price structure in Italy, according to local reports. The current price of a subscription to the streaming service in the country ranges from €8 per month for the basic package, to €14 which offers 4K streaming on up to 4 connected devices. Under the new pricing scheme, some users […]
Measat is broadcasting eight channels targeting Nepalese viewers including its latest offering Himalaya TV HD across the Nepal region and wider Asia Pacific areas from its Measat-3 satellite Himalaya TV (HTV) was founded in 2010 is a Kathmandu-based private television company of Nepal. HTV produces news and entertainment programmes that raises awareness of human issues […]
Channel 5 has signed a content partnership deal for its streaming service, My5, with HOT Telecommunication Systems, Israel’s largest multi-channel cable television company. The partnership marks the first ever foreign language content deal for the platform and includes a selection of four original Hebrew language drama series produced by HOT. All of the content will […]
SVoD uptake is accelerating and in terms of hours viewing per day it will shortly draw level with broadcast TV globally by 2023, according to a report from Rethink TV. The report, The rise in SVoD viewing to swamp traditional TV by 2023, offers a global forecast by region of all SVoD usage to 2023, […]
Spain’s two largest private TV companies, Mediaset and Atresmedia, experienced mixed fortunes in 2018 in terms of financial results. Mediaset increased its profits by 1.4 per cent to €200 million, whereas Atresmedia saw its fall by 37.9 per cent to €88.2 million. The ad crisis and the fall in revenues accordingly are the main reasons […]