TV advertising revenue in the UK totalled £5.11 billion (€5.74bn) in 2017, down 3.2 per cent on the record high set in 2016 of £5.28 billion, according to full year figures provided to Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – by the UK commercial TV broadcasters. The figures represent all […]
TF1 remains in a deadlock over its attempt to secure retransmission fees from the major telco and pay -TV operators, according to a note from equity analysts at Exane/BNPP. “Canal has ended the signal of all TF1 channels over the weekend, blaming “on screen” TF1 for it. In parallel, the French press reports that TF1 […]
The Spanish OTT service operated by Sky has launched an app to make the package available to all PlayStation 4 owners. PS4 users can now download the app to watch Sky’s 14 pay-TV channels and over 3,600 hours of VoD content for €10 a month, with the first month free under a starter promotion. PS4 users […]
Although the economic recession waned somewhat in 2017, the Latin American pay-TV sector was still affected. According to the eighth edition of the Latin America Pay-TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research, the number of pay-TV subscribers was flat year-on-year. Fewer than 5 million additional pay-TV subscribers are expected between 2017 and 2023 – bringing […]
A negative report on the satellite industry from equity analysts at Deutsche Bank does not pull any punches in its report on the sector, saying bluntly “The first step is admitting you have a problem”. Analyst Laurie Davison opens the bank’s report with a summary of the past month’s results season on the ‘Big Three’ […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a Hispasat satellite into orbit in the early hours of March 6th from its Cape Canaveral launch site. However, a planned landing of the rocket’s first stage did not take place as hoped because of bad weather at the floating landing site. Lift-off was at 05.33 GMT and […]
Following the December 2017 announcement by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) that it had decided to not oppose the proposed merger of FOX SPORTS and Foxtel after finding the transaction would not substantially lessen competition, News Corp and Telstra have signed definitive agreements to combine Foxtel and FOX SPORTS Australia, which they say […]
According to local reports out of Kiev, Israel’s satellite operator Spacecom has held talks with the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) with the intention of creating a Ukrainian satellite communications system to operate in a joint-venture with Spacecom. Spacecom operates the Amos fleet of satellites. The SSAU’s website says that the discussions on the […]
Simplestream, specialists in live and on-demand OTT services, has announced that its VOD-in-a-Box platform has been selected by Hit Networks to build its on-demand streaming service HistoryHit.TV, which is hosted by British television personality Dan Snow. HistoryHit.TV is a new global SVoD channel that provides history buffs with new original programmes featuring the world’s leading […]
Tru Optik, the audience intelligence and data-management platform, has announced a partnership with ZypMedia, an enterprise software company for local advertising, to power an OTT marketplace for Sinclair Broadcast Group. This partnership provides local advertisers with the ability to use ZypMedia’s platform to create targeted campaigns across all CTV screens using third party demographic data […]