The hackers behind HBO’s data breach have allegedly leaked an email in which the channel offered them $250,000 as a “bounty payment,” according to US reports including in Variety. The message from HBO says the money is part of what it terms a reward scheme for “white-hat professionals” who identify cyber security flaws.# The email […]
News Corp posted a $817 million (€692m) year loss on the back of big falls in the value of newspapers in the UK and Australia and write offs on Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel. Revenue was $8.14 billion, down 2 per cent from $8.29 billion last year, on falling print advertising revenue and foreign currency fluctuations, the […]
In a new study of the top US streaming video platforms and content providers, the Parents Television Council – a non-partisan education organisation advocating responsible entertainment – found that children have easy access to adult content, in part, because the parental controls are lax or non-existent. The PTC research also found that the majority of […]
Flexible TV viewing is on the rise, with 6.9 million Australians streaming more than 1.5 billion minutes of catch-up and live streaming content in the past month, according to the latest OzTAM VPM 28 Day Rolling and Live Streaming reports. The figure represents a 25 per cent increase in television streaming over the past four […]
BritBox, the subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) streaming service from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, which launched exclusively in the US earlier in 2017, is now available on Amazon Channels. Prime members can subscribe to BritBox for $6.99 (€5.95) per month after a seven-day free trial, and […]
Virgin Media Ireland is adding UKTV Play to its catalogue of catch up services. UKTV channels Dave, W, Gold and Alibi will now be available through the operator’s On Demand platform, making over 1,000 additional hours of catch up TV available to its customers. Customers will be able to tune in to their favourite Dave, […]
Facebook has unveiled its long-trailed move to compete in the television market by expanding its video tab offerings with a redesign called Watch. The redesigned product will be available initially to a limited group in the United States. Facebook signed deals this year with Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to produce […]
AMC Networks Iberia is reportedly finalising an OTT platform for Spain with over 1,000 hours of VoD content and 17 TV channels. Branded Selekt it will be integrated into the platforms of the largest operators, Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange, at a low cost, between €5 and €10. Very similar to AMC Premiere in the States […]
There’s more money to go around in the skinny pay-TV bundle than in traditional US pay-TV packages, making the switch to ‘virtual’ pay-TV potentially lucrative for channels, according to the latest research from Ampere Analysis. With pay-TV operators in the US coming under increasing pressure from the cost of carriage fees, and the increasing availability […]
According to reports, James Murdoch says he is confident that the 21st Century Fox bid to acquire the assets of Sky that it does not already own will be approved, but more likely early next year than in 2017. UK’s Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said she was “minded” to refer the almost deal to the […]