The latest entertainment trends research from The NPD Group, a global information company, reveals a telling shift in how much time Americans spend watching TV and movie content – and how they’re watching it. As subscribers to Netflix, Hulu and other SVoD services continues to increase, so too does the amount of time viewers watch TV […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, the licensees of three premises in the North and Midlands regions of England have been found to be infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports without having the required commercial agreements. Gail Asquith of Travellers Rest, Bradford and James McKeever of Winning Post, Worcester both had previous criminal […]
Having earlier admitted the possibility channels going dark on the pay-TV service, DISH Network has reached a multi-year carriage agreement with CBS Corporation for its owned and operated local stations, as well as CBS Sports Network, Pop, and Smithsonian Channel. The channels are currently being restored to DISH customers. “We are grateful to our customers […]
Research from Creative Skillset, the UK industry skills body for the screen-based creative industries, reveals the impact on the UK’s High End Television (HETV) production sector from the recent growth in FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) and increased home grown production activity. The research shows
Canal+ Group has extended its DTT offer EasyTV to a third city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Matadi, after already rolling out in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa. Priced at €7, the service gives access to 32 channels, local channels RTNC, RTVA, national and international. EasyTV is also coupled to Canal+ African channel A+. […]
Poland’s TVN has launched in VoD/OTT service Player+. As well as offering live channels including Discovery, Disney, National Geographic, Eurosport, Eleven Sports and MTV, the service also offers access to SVoD content from the likes of Canal+ and HBO without any long-term commitment. “Our proposal is a carefully crafted offering that gathers in one place […]
UK-based small satellite builder Surrey Satellite Technology has shipped Telesat’s broadband LEO-1 craft to India in readiness for launch later in December. The satellite, built for Canadian satellite operator Telesat, is the first in a new fleet of Low Earth Orbiting craft which will eventually number 290 in orbit. Telesat is obliged to launch half […]
Walesi, the Fijian Government’s Digital Television infrastructure management company, has signed a multi-year agreement with Eutelsat Communications that will for the first time expand free-to-air television throughout Fiji. The agreement covers C-band capacity on the Eutelsat 172B satellite to complement terrestrial coverage of the Walesi digital television platform. Eutelsat’s new, all-electric satellite, now in full […]
The companies responsible for UK free-to-air DTT platform Freeview have called on industry and policy makers to ‘step up’ to meet the profound changes in television being driven by American tech firms. Guy North, Freeview’s Managing Director, and Jonathan Thompson, Digital UK’s CEO, told delegates at the Outside the Box industry event in London that there […]
Pay-TV revenues are overtaking FTA advertising revenues for the first time in Spain, according to the latest report from regulatory body CNMC. Total pay-TV revenues grew by 14.8 per cent to €520 million in the first quarter of the year. Pay-TV fees amounted to €489 million with 18.4 per cent growth. FTA TV revenues totalled […]