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Study: US OTT customer satisfaction on the rise

Pay-TV subscribers in the US are growing increasingly satisfied with OTT streaming TV services versus traditional cable TV, but they also are spending nearly an hour more a week watching regularly scheduled television programming than they did two years ago. That increasingly complex consumer relationship with streaming and cable television is explored in detail in […]

September 29, 2017

SES extends video contract with Sky Deutschland

Satellite operator SES says it has concluded a multi-year capacity extension agreement with Sky Deutschland. “Under the agreement announced by SES, Sky Deutschland has renewed seven transponders at the prime orbital position of 19.2 degrees East to deliver its video content to millions of households and subscribers,” says SES. The orbital position of 19.2 degrees […]

September 29, 2017By Chris Forrester

BT to broadcast live from space

BT will be delivering a live broadcast link between London and the International Space Station (ISS), allowing visitors at the New Scientist Live event to interact with Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli. BT’s media and broadcast division is working with the European Space Agency to provide the live broadcast technology, allowing visitors […]

September 29, 2017

Netflix pledges $400m to Canadian TV and film

Netflix has revealed it will spend $400 million (€338.4m) over five years on Canadian TV and film content. It will establish a permanent production presence in Canada, the first time it has done so outside of the US. The company has largely avoided the requirements put on Canadian content producers by the country’s government. The […]

September 29, 2017

DISH launches 4K Netflix experience

DISH, the US pay-TV provider is now offering a whole-home 4K Netflix experience. After offering Netflix Ultra HD titles on its Hopper 3 DVR since April 2016, the company added the app to its 4K Joey client. Now DISH customers have the ability to stream a catalogue of Ultra HD TV shows and movies on […]

September 29, 2017

Successful lift-off for AsiaSat 9

AsiaSat has announced the successful lift-off of AsiaSat 9, the company’s most powerful and advanced communications satellite. It is the fifth AsiaSat satellite built by SSL and the fifth launch collaboration with ILS’s Proton Breeze M rocket. AsiaSat acquired the first signals from the satellite in Hong Kong 7 hours, 54 minutes after the launch, […]

September 29, 2017

Intertrust, Bitmovin secure media player partnership

Computing products and services specialist Intertrust Technologies Corporation and video infrastructure provider Bitmovin have agreed a strategic partnership centred around Intertrust’s ExpressPlay media monetisation and content protection platforms. Together, Intertrust’s cloud-based platforms and Bitmovin’s end-to-end content delivery solution provide customers (such as media companies and broadcasters) with a one-stop solution for content protection and monetisation. […]

September 29, 2017

Ofcom: BT broadband and TV still earn most complaints

BT has continued its run as the UK’s most complained about ISP, according to Ofcom data. The company attracted 28 complaints per 100,000 customers for the service during Q2 (April to June 2017). BT has now been ranked the worst out of the UK’s six major broadband providers for the fifth quarter in a row, […]

September 28, 2017

RTL: “Global linear TV consumption stable”

European media network, RTL, has launched its latest annual Total Video Key Facts – a television yearbook and interactive database reference on global TV trends. The main findings:

September 28, 2017

US continues to add linear OTT pay-TV subs

The pay-TV market in US fell to 0.1 per cent to reach 100.2 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the previous quarter. However, linear OTT pay-TV continue to add subscribers (+49.6 per cent with 4.4 million subscribers) and thus contribute to the prevention of the global trend of market erosion that […]

September 28, 2017