Advertising expenditure attributed to OTT TV episodes and movies (AVoD) will double between 2017 and 2022 to reach $29 billion for 138 countries, according to the Global AVoD Forecasts report. Asia Pacific will overtake North America as the leading AVoD region in 2021. Asia Pacific and North America will together account for 77 per cent […]
A follow-up report on last week’s disappointing TV subscriber numbers at AT&T suggests that conventional pay-TV subscriber losses are accelerating. AT&T’s Q3 overall ‘lost’ conventional subscribers topped 390,000 although were helped by attracting some 300,000 Internet-based subscribers to its ‘NOW’ OTT bundle. The net decline for Q3 will be about 90,000, according to AT&T. It […]
Portugal’s Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ERC) [Regulatory Entity for the Media] has submitted a study to the National Assembly, commissioned from Deloitte, outlaying the different options for the further expansion of DTT. Currently, TV viewers in Continental Portugal can receive seven free-to-air TV channels on DTT (RTP, RTP2, SIC, TVI, ARTV, RTP Memória, […]
The joint Intelsat-Intel proposal to free up C-band spectrum in certain congested urban areas in the US has received a warm response from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). FCC commissioner Michel O’Rielly told delegates to the Americas Spectrum Management Conference that the idea was very beneficial and would be examined closely. While not wholly endorsing […]
Ed Vaizey MP, the former Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy, will be among the keynote speakers at the launch of a series of Media Summits to explore the effect of ‘Brexit’ on the media and communications sector. The Brexit Briefing series launches in London on November 21st with a presentation and reception at […]
If ever there was a ‘bargain basement’ acquisition that could resonate well beyond the $75 million purchase price it is Eutelsat’s buying of Noorsat in a deal which closed on October 13th. Noorsat is a capacity re-seller, with some 30 transponders under overall contract at the Nilesat/Eutelsat ‘hot spot’ at 7/8 degrees West, but also […]
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery Communications are launching a joint premium entertainment streaming service in Germany, which they say brings an exciting content offering to the market. They say the initiative defines a new way for media companies to bring their content to fans across all screens and new opportunities for advertisers to reach […]
Asian Pay-TV industry trade body CASBAA has announced the formation of the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), a major initiative to coordinate industry resources in the fight against rampant content theft. It also announced the appointment of Neil Gane, an industry veteran in content protection, as the General Manager of CAP. Gane will direct CAP enforcement […]
Insight TV, a broadcaster and producer of native UHD HDR content covering action sports, entertainment, and lifestyle, has announced a major distribution deal with Amazon as part of its new Amazon Channels service. The deal sees Insight TV deliver its HD SVoD and linear TV services to Amazon Prime members in the UK and Germany. […]
Having abandoned plans to merge their businesses earlier in the year following failure to gain regulatory approval for the deal, New Zealand telco Vodafone and pay-TV operator SKY TV have unveiled Vodafone TV – a world of entertainment that Vodafone says lets Kiwis experience television like never before, by giving them freedom and control over […]