Netflix has announced a “truly Israeli” service, using local language, currency and adding Israeli TV shows in addition to Netflix’s original programming, now starting at ILS 29.9 per month. Through a partnership with its first local partner, Partner Communications, Netflix is also available on Partner TV. “We are delighted to offer a more local Netflix […]
Aurora Media Worldwide and North One Television have joined forces as host broadcasters of the FIA Formula E Championship – the world’s first fully-electric single-seater racing series. The contract was awarded to a co-venture between both North One and Aurora – who have continued to produce coverage of Formula E since the inaugural race around […]
Firms providing TV and broadband packages did more than nearly any other sector to damage their reputations over the last year through poor customer service and increasing complaint levels. Pay-TV/broadband firms saw the biggest increase in customers citing them among the worst sectors for service – rising 3.3 percentage points to 33.5 per cent. Only […]
France’s Canal+ is interested in creating a joint venture with Italian telco TIM for the acquisition of audiovisual rights and the production of original films and series. According to Italian media reports, the president of TIM and the CEO of Vivendi, Arnaud de Puyfontaine, informed the Board of Directors of the Italian telecom operator that he […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has reported its H1 results, with a decline in advertising revenue blamed on “ongoing economic and political uncertainty”. Advertising revenue fell 8 per cent to £769 million (€862m) in the first six months of the year. However, that fall was offset by growth at ITV studios, which makes popular shows such […]
IHS Markit has released findings from its Cross-Platform Television Viewing Time 2016 report, which analyses TV consumption trends across the ‘big five’ European markets: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, and suggests that linear television viewing declined across those markets in 2016, with personal video recorder (PVR) time-shifted viewing starting to plateau as PVRs […]
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, operator of La 1 and La 2 among other channels, will increase its budget by around €30 million to a total of €1 billion next year. In 2017 the pubcaster is managing a budget of €972.8 million, but the planned increase of telco and TV taxes is driving the rise of […]
Netflix has ordered a new adult-animation series from Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. The show, entitled Disenchantment, will whisk viewers away to the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland, where they will follow the misadventures of a hard-drinking young princess named Bean. It will premiere on Netflix in 2018 with ten episodes, with a further […]
A new studio complex has been built in Park Royal, London to house Alaraby, a TV station beaming programming to the Arab world, and financed by Qatar. Alaraby TV started broadcasting in 2015 from a shared studio, but its new complex will eventually be home initially 200 journalists and technicians – and as many as […]
A report from Paris-based satellite consultancy Euroconsult says that the In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) sector of the industry is going to enjoy “fabulous growth” although the study admits that predicting revenue patterns is still a challenge. The study is echoed by London-based Inmarsat, which is boosting its coverage of the globe in order to […]