A new free-to-air TV channel, FreeSports, has launched in the UK showing up to 10 live football games every week. The channel, operated by the team behind Premier Sports, becomes the only FTA sports channel available on Freeview, TalkTalk and BT. Sky and FreeSat are also carrying the channel, but not Virgin Media. The channel […]
According to a study from Morning Consult, 37 per cent of US Internet users shared their password for at least one streaming service account – usually Netflix – in August 2017. The study found that
Judge Haywood Gilliam has “paused” a trial taking place in California between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and pay-TV operator DirecTV. The FTC is claiming that DirecTV made unjust gains in its subscriber promotions and alleged false advertising, and that some 33 million subscribers signed up for DirecTV services without being clearly aware of the […]
IAB Australia’s Video Council – the trade association for online advertising in Australia – has released the country’s first white paper on Connected TV (CTV) which reveals that CTV now accounts for up to 35 per cent of Australian broadcaster’s online video supply. The study, Connected TV: The New Era of Television, examines why, despite […]
Leading up to the third quarter of this year, 200,000 Swedish households say they intend to sign up for an HBO Nordic subscription. The record high interest coincided with the premiere of the seventh season of Game of Thrones. This season is the most popular yet with an average of roughly 31 million viewers per […]
PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia says it is going to “de-orbit” its Telkom-1 satellite, which has suffered battery/power anomalies in orbit. The Lockheed Martin-built satellite was well over its design life of 15 years having been launched in 1999, and has been working – until last week – for 18 years. However, there are well-founded reports that […]
AsiaSat-9 has been delivered to the ILS/Proton launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Built by Space Systems/Loral, the satellite will replace AsiaSat-4 at 122 degrees East. Russia’s Roscosmos space agency says that the satellite will launch on Sept 28th, weather permitting. AsiaSat-9 will provide DTH broadcasts, as well as additional Ku-band capacity for new markets including […]
Video ad serving platform SpotX has confirmed that the RTL Group will acquire all remaining shares in the company, bringing its total ownership to 100 per cent. According to SpotX, the investment demonstrates RTL Group’s continued commitment to its ambitious ad tech strategy and recognition of SpotX’s impressive growth and execution of its strategic objectives. […]
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has issued another warning about revenue expectations for this year. The news comes just three weeks after the second warning of the year, when advertising guidance was trimmed. This latest – and unscheduled – statement talks of a weaker September and that previous guidance for its Q3 ad sales were now […]
RTL Group has published its results for the six months ended June 30th 2017. Reported Group revenue was up 3.5 per cent to €2,978 million (H1/2016: €2,878 million), driven by higher revenue from RTL Group’s rapidly growing digital businesses (+€125 million) and from the three main business units Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (+€36 million), Groupe M6 (+€16 million) […]