Tricolor TV, Russia’s leading TV operator, is taking a further step in audience expansion with a new service branded Territoria Tricolor, launched in partnership with Eutelsat Communications. The new satellite-based service enables consumers in hotels, airports, rail stations and other public venues to have free WiFi access to TV channels on their mobile devices without […]
A survey of consumer behaviour has revealed five types of ‘Television Tribe’, each with very different patterns in the way they consume and pay for content. The study, Television Tribes, from content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA, in partnership with TV industry research firm Ampere Analysis, highlights the new reality of pay-TV consumer […]
Research from global content services provider TVT Media shows the UK is at the epicentre of the explosion in OTT and VoD services across the European Union and Turkey, as 82 of its 226 OTT platforms – double any other EU nation – are VoD services targeted outside the UK. The research, commissioned by TVT […]
The numbers of SVoD users in France has grown by 40 per cent in 2017 so far, mainly driven by Netflix, ahead of French counterparts Canalplay and SFR Play, and Amazon Prime Video which has newly launched in the country. Some 21 per cent of Internet users now subscribe to SVoD, up from 15 per […]
Forming the first collaborative single-market effort to plan for and implement a transition to next-generation over-the-air television broadcasting, broadcast groups E.W. Scripps Company, Fox Television Stations, Meredith Local Media Group, Nexstar Media Group, TEGNA, Telemundo Station Group, Univision Communications, and Pearl TV have revealed a comprehensive effort planned for the Phoenix, Arizona TV market to […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the largest pay-TV providers in the US — representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost around 405,000 net video subscribers in Q3 2017, compared to a loss of 250,000 subscribers in Q3 2016. The top pay-TV providers account for 92.2 million subscribers — with the […]
Discovery Spain has launched DPLAY, a free streaming service that allows viewers to watch on demand programmes, documentaries and TV series from the DMax channel at any time and on any device. Viewers, who can registered at DPLAY.es, will also be able to personalise content with their own play lists, save their selections, rate content […]
SES has renewed a valuable distribution agreement with key client ProSiebenSat.1. Part of deal covers all of the broadcasting group’s FTA standard definition transmissions. SES-owned facility and playout division MX1 will continue to handle technical services. What’s important to the deal is that SES holds onto ProSiebenSat.1’s standard definition channels, which means that dual emissions, […]
Survey data from Netflix reveals 67 per cent of people will risk embarrassment, awkwardness and spoilers to watch their favourite shows and movies in public. In a world with 2.4 billion smartphone users, mobile viewing is on the rise and ‘binge-free zones’ are a thing of the past. But as millions of people take full […]
It wasn’t so long ago that Russia enjoyed a major portion of the ‘West’s’ satellite launching demands via its Proton rockets, as well as its regular Soyuz crew and re-supply flights to the International Space Station (ISS). The arrival of SpaceX has changed the launching dynamic considerably. This year, to date, Russia has supplied 17 […]