Arqiva, one of the UK’s leading communications infrastructure and media services providers with significant investments in essential communications infrastructure, has published its results for the half year to December 31st 2017. Highlights include: Revenue on a like-for-like basis is up 5 per cent, demonstrating excellent progress in 700MHz spectrum clearance, DAB radio rollout and smart-metering […]
The January 25th launch by an Ariane rocket of two satellites, owned by SES of Luxembourg (SES-14) and Al Yah (YahSat-3) of Abu Dhabi, suffered a major trajectory deviation because wrong programming data was supplied to the rocket’s computers. Both satellites were subsequently contacted in orbit and given fresh guidance information. At the time of […]
Bahrain’s Information Minister, Mohammed Al-Romaihi cited Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera as one of the channels responsible for inciting against Arab countries and causing harm to everything related to them. But the Minister, while saying that Al-Jazeera had, in his view, lost a lot of its influence and no longer has an impact on Arab viewers […]
The Isle of Man’s Department for Enterprise has appointed a local consortium led by Greenlight Television, and supported by Isle of Man-based SES and Duke Marketing, as host broadcaster for the TT Races and Classic TT from 2018 onwards following a recent tender process. Greenlight Television is one of the world’s leading motorsport television producers […]
Samsung was the brand with the most Olympics related digital content engagement, according to research from Amobee. Interestingly, they gave away free Galaxy Note 8 phones for Olympians with some confusion if North Korean and Iranian athletes would be able to keep them. Ralph Lauren ranked second with 57 per cent with dressing the United States Olympic Team around the Opening […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar has made the first move in putting pressure on Mediapro to reduce the price of football TV rights in Spain. The company has decided not to bid for the Champions League and La Liga TV rights in an attempt to put the pressure on for a cut in the cost of […]
Karim Michel Sabbagh, President and CEO of satellite operator SES, has described 2017 as “an important year of transformation for SES,” as it reported revenue of €2.035 billion, down 1.6 per cent, declaring a dividend of €0.80 for 2017, a reduction of 40 per cent from 2016, which it says will allow a strengthening of […]
Telecom Italia looks set to pull out of a proposed joint-venture with Canal+, the pay-TV arm of its top shareholder French media group Vivendi, according to a Reuters report. Under the terms of the joint-venture, which had been challenged by Telecom Italia’s independent directors, the phone group would pay for content provided by Canal+. An […]
Pay-TV in Spain is significantly increasing its revenue share well ahead of FTA. In the third quarter of the year, pay-TV made €523.1 million, up 14 per cent on the same period last year, according to the CNMC. Meanwhile, FTA TV’s revenues amounted to €371.4 million, up just 3.6 per cent. Most of the pay-TV […]
The UK’s annual television licence fee is to rise to £150.50 (€171) from £147, the government has announced. The increase, which will come into effect on April 1st, follows last year’s rise to £147 from £145.50. Last year the government announced that the licence fee would rise in line with inflation for the next five […]