According to the latest connected entertainment research findings from market research and consulting company Parks Associates, over 50 per cent of US broadband households now watch Internet video on a television screen. “For years, the television has been the stronghold for the traditional TV industry,” said Brett Sappington, Senior Director of Research, Parks Associates. “Today, […]
BBC iPlayer has made it even easier for some viewers to restart live BBC programmes, meaning that tennis fans keen to catch all the action from this weekend’s Wimbledon finals are in luck, even if they’re running late, they won’t miss a moment of the drama from Centre Court. With the push of a single […]
David Elstein, chairman of openDemocracy.net and a former head of programming at BSkyB, has written a powerful – and 5,000-word – analysis piece for openDemocracy and examining the possible outcome of the Fox bid for Sky, and paying particular attention to the prospects for Sky News. The UK’s Culture Secretary, Karen Bradley has set this […]
Orange Spain has launched a new VoD service branded Últimos 7 días (last 7 days) that allows subscribers to watch TV content broadcast over the previous week. Over 8,000 titles will be available each week including movies, TV series and programmes. Subscribers to the Premium channels will be able to watch the content across all […]
Israel’s Securities Authority (ISA) on July 11th halted trading in shares in Bezeq Group as the ISA expanded to investigate the provision of satellite capacity agreements between DTH operator ‘YES’ and satellite operator Spacecom. The ISA trading decision affects four Bezeq-related quoted companies (Bezeq itself, Spacecom, B Communications, and Internet Gold). It is a matter of […]
In a move that brings together the broadcast industry’s most extensive end-to-end content services, media logistics and distribution offering, media services companies TVT has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of DMC (Digital Media Centre) an Amsterdam-headquartered company and part of AMC Networks International, a division of AMC Networks Inc. The cash transaction was […]
Targeted, or addressable, TV ad spending in the US is growing quickly, but will remain a small portion of total TV spend for the foreseeable future. According to eMarketer’s latest forecast,
Germany is far from alone in suffering a ‘dislocation’ in terms of ad-spending on broadcast TV. But the advertising downturn is hitting one of Germany’s popular commercial broadcasters, ProSieben.Sat1 (P7). A report from equity analysts at Deutsche Bank says that falling audience share for P7’s two key channels: Sat.1 & ProSieben, is not new. “It […]
Video ad-serving platform SpotX has been chosen by Scotland’s leading digital media brand STV to help manage programmatic video monetisation for the STV Player. Advertisers and their agencies are now able to target Scotland-based viewers of programmes such as The Loch, X Factor, The Voice Kids, and live events such as the recent Scotland v […]
Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat is transmitting a FTA DTH bouquet using its BADR-4 satellite from its ‘hot spot’ at 26 degrees East. The bouquet’s channels are all in HD, and include BBC World News HD, France 24 Arabic HD, TV5 Monde Style HD — “as well as other HD exclusive channels with the best Free-To-Air viewing […]