Telenor’s Canal Digital broadcasting division has posted further falls in revenue for its Q3/2017 period. DTH subscribers fell numerically by 3 per cent to 843,000 (down from 851,000 in Q2, and from 865,000 in Q3/2016). However, DTH ARPU grew by 2 per cent to 405 Norwegian Kroner (€43) per month (static since Q2, but up […]

The CEO of Hulu, Mike Hopkins, is leaving to become chairman of Sony Pictures Television. Randy Freer, a member of the Hulu board, will succeed him. Freer, the Fox Networks Group’s chief operating officer and previously a co-president at Fox Sports, will take over the Hulu job straightaway. The change comes as Hulu’s parent companies […]

Invidi Technologies and Foxtel announced today they have entered into a licensing agreement bringing addressable television to Australia across satellite-delivered, IP and Internet delivered content. This marks the first time the benefits of Invidi’s addressable technology will be available in Australia to viewers, advertisers, distributors and programmers. Significantly, this is also the first time anywhere […]

Netflix is planning to raise another $1.6bn (€1.36bn) from investors to finance new content and make new acquisitions. The video streaming giant plans to spend up to $8 billion on content next year to keep the edge on its rivals. Netflix will issue bonds to investors, although the interest rate it will pay has yet […]

Italian public broadcaster RAI ended June 2017 with an audience share of 35.9 per cent, compared to 36.9 per cent a year earlier. In the same period, its main rival Mediaset saw its audience share grow from 29.1 per cent to 30.1 per cent. Sky Italia had 8.4 per cent of total viewers (-0.6 per […]

Following Dataxis research, the pay-TV market in Latin America reached 74.3 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2017, ended almost unchanged from the previous quarter. Although the market remained stable, America Movil and AT&T (DirecTV), the two main groups lost subscribers. America Movil lost 1.3 per cent of its pay-TV subscriber base in the […]

Satellite operator SES is working with Google’s experimental stratospheric balloon system, ‘Project Loon’, to bring telephone and broadband connectivity back to hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico. ‘Project Loon’, in this case, sees very high-altitude balloons used over Puerto Rico and SES-backed O3b’s FastConnect satellite terminals for further links into the world’s telecoms systems. “Our thoughts are […]

The Anil Ambani-backed Reliance Digital DTH service over India is widely reported to be about to close. A notice in Hindi to subscribers has been published in some Indian newspapers, and saying that the service will cease on November 18th. This notice has not been confirmed. The reports come amidst numerous stories of financial pressures […]

AdScribe, a subsidiary of Zenterio, is bringing next-generation advertising to television viewers on compatible HbbTV devices. Partnering with AdScribe, Admeira, the largest marketing company in Switzerland, has launched a beta test with interactive advertising campaigns running on the public TV channels delivered by a major Swiss TV operator, giving viewers the ability to interact directly […]

Last week, Inside Satellite was specifically told by a representative of Avanti Communications that the London-based satellite operator would release its end-of-year numbers (to June 30th) no later than November. The company last week had suffered two days of heavy share trading which took Avanti’s share price to its lowest-ever value. However, in an after-hours […]