The golden age of television is just getting started, according to Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content at Sky. Writing an Opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph, Davey says there has never been a better time for it. “But not according to the BBC. In a speech last week, Tony Hall, the BBC director-general, said the […]
Pay-TV only subscribers are decreasing in the US, Europe and Australia according to Ampere Analysis. Amongst those taking subscription services, pay TV only subscribers continue to decline, while SVoD only subscribers increase. More than one third of those taking subscription services have both pay-TV and SVoD. In all 11 countries stufes (Spain, Italy, France, Australia, […]
TV takes up almost two thirds of media spend in high-budget, successful ad campaigns, according to a new WARC service. The Global Ad Trends Report is a monthly series of reports from WARC Data, a dedicated online service featuring current advertising benchmarks, data points, ad trends and user-generated expanded databases. The first report in the series focuses on […]
India’s Reliance Big digital TV operation has changed its mind to close its service, and instead signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Delhi-based Veecon Media & Television. The agreement sees Reliance sell its DTH operation to Veecon. Reliance had said that it would close its DTH service on November 18th, timed when its licence to […]
The slew of “detained” senior Saudi Arabian officials named in a November 4th crackdown on alleged corruption contains many very well-known names in Arabic broadcasting. The news emerged via an official Saudi decree. The most senior media player of those named is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the billionaire behind Kingdom Holdings, and what is claimed […]
Online music streaming service has launched a channel on Roku players and Roku TVs, giving subscribers access to its premium streaming music service on the big screen. With Deezer, users can stream any song, anytime. After a 3-month free trial, Deezer Premium+ is $9.99/month, and givess access to all the music tracks in high quality […]
The UK industry body for digital, cable and satellite broadcasters and on-demand services has warned that TV firms may have to move some operations abroad if there is no Brexit trade deal. Speaking to the BBC, Adam Minns, executive director of Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) said that thousands of jobs could potentially be at stake […]
According to the Q3 2017 US TV & Video Market At-A-Glance report from Videology, a software provider for converged TV and video advertising, spending on linear TV campaigns in the Videology platform using advanced data grew 60 per cent for the first three quarters of 2017, compared to the same time period last year. The […]
The largest Spanish pay-TV operators – Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone – have rejected paying huge fees for the Champions League TV rights and will reportedly seek to negotiate downwards the renewal of the contracts with Mediapro, owner of the rights, next year. The operators are finding it difficult to make football rights profitable at the […]
ITV is threatening a blackout of its flagship channel in some 3.8 million homes served by Virgin Media unless the cable operator pays up to £80 million a year to host the channel. ITV threatened to shut down the feed of its main channel to Virgin Media TV homes last month, but at the 11th […]