The Board of Directors of Italian broadcaster Mediaset has approved the results for the first quarter of 2018 which confirm a return to profit. Net revenues were €860.6 million, compared with €889.3 million a year earlier, with the Italian market accounting for €631.0 million (€649.3 million) and the Spanish market for €229.6 million (€240.4 million). […]
Spain’s two largest TV groups, Mediaset and Atresmedia, could face €5 billion compensation demands if the CNMC (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia) probe into their allegedly-illegal ad practices that distort the market finds that they are indeed guilty. Regional public broadcasters and smaller DTT operators could ask for sky-high compensation of up […]
Eutelsat saw its share price crash a massive 13.57 per cent, €2.49, to just €15.93 in volatile trading May 15th, following what was a profits warning from CEO Rodolphe Belmer. Indeed, during the trading session the fall was even more severe (to €15.27) from the previous day’s €18.42 price which represented a 52-week ‘Low’ for […]
Media and entertainment metadata provider Gracenote, a Nielsen company, is helping to enhance the experience for TV viewers who use new Virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (vMVPD) services. A new TV metadata and electronic programme guide (EPG) solution from Gracenote enables Smart TV and streaming device manufacturers that offer live TV streaming services to make […]
Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure company, has signed an agreement which will see the reach of Sound Digital’s commercial DAB multiplex in the UK expand by nearly 4 million people. The deal with Sound Digital will see Arqiva add 19 new transmitters to the existing network. This will increase Sound Digital’s household coverage by over […]
According to market-foresight advisory firm ABI Research, the growth of subscription OTT services has been driving the changing trends in the pay-TV landscape. OTT video services have attracted hundreds of millions of subscribers worldwide, causing pressure on traditional pay-TV operators. This OTT growth trend is expected to continue, reaching a subscriber base of 400 million […]
Vodafone Spain ended the fiscal year at March 31st with a 2.1 per cent rise in its revenues to €4.5 million and an EBITDA increase of 5 per cent. The company significantly increased its subscribers with its convergent package Vodafone One now reaching over 2.5 million, up 154,000 on the previous year. FTTH subscribers amounted […]
One market analyst described Eutelsat Q3 results, released May 14th, as “idiosyncratic”. They were best described as flat, with CEO Rodolphe Belmer explaining that Eutelsat’s extremely important Hotbird prime video slot was holding steady in terms of revenues and with a fill rate that was showing a modest growth helped by favourable renewals and new […]
Pirate DTT channels are increasingly proliferating in Spain, above all in the local DTT Market and the South of Spain in the Region of Andalucía. The Andalucía Audiovisual Council (CAA) has reported the illegal presence of 121 DTT frequencies in Andalucía. The illegal DTT predominantly broadcast clairvoyance programmes (83 per cent) and religious programmes (11 […]
The adoption of SVoD services in France has so far been slower than other major western markets. Consulting firm Ampere Analysis’s comparison of the content catalogues of SVoD players in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US reveals that of the six markets, France has less content and far lower levels of localisation […]