STV Player has announced it is the first UK broadcaster globally to provide fully targetable Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) in live streaming on Amazon Fire TV. The service is powered by Yospace, whose server-side DAI platform allows advertising to be replaced in a way that is consistent with the viewing experience expected of broadcast television. […]
In-flight entertainment and broadband provider Gogo says it is enjoying success on aircrafts where its technology is supply broadband and direct-to-seat TV and entertainment. Average revenue per aircraft (ARPA) outside North America is up 22 per cent (Q3 2016, vs Q3 2015) to $174,000 ($143,000 annually in Q3/2015). North America was also respectable at $141,000 […]
Amazon Prime Video has become the exclusive US home for the second season of mystery-thriller Fortitude following the closure of cablenet Pivot, which coproduced the first run. Fortitude, which will be billed as an Amazon original series in the US, is produced for Sky by Fifty Fathoms. The first season, which premiered on Sky Atlantic […]
A grouping of Europe’s commercial broadcasters has warned that proposed changes to the AVMS Directive are a step backwards that risks damaging growth, audience choice and investment in European content, instead of delivering the Commission’s stated aim of fostering Europe’s digital economy. When the European Commission embarked on the current review, vice president Andrus Ansip […]
Telefónica’s pay TV base in Spain remained stable in 2016, ending the year with 3.657 million subscribers, slightly down from 3.671 million at the end of 2015. By contrast, Orange increased its TV subscribers in the same period by 66 per cent to 507,000. In the last quarter of 2016, Telefonica’s total number of pay-TV […]
SES’s CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh has said the conversion from standard definition to HD is accelerating. “We have achieved a growth nearing 7 per cent during the course of 2016. We are serving today close to 2500 HD channels on the SES network. Equally important is that conversation is that HD penetration now represents 33 […]
Telenor Group and Netflix have agreed to enter a long-term strategic partnership to provide their members in 13 countries with a “world class video streaming experience”. The agreement covers Telenor Group’s large mobile and fixed line footprint in Asia and Europe and includes multiple touchpoints with customers, such as set-top-box integration, mobile payments and joint […]
Satellite operator SES has confirmed that US multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) Frontier Communications has begun testing 4K Ultra HD content delivery using SES’s fully-managed Ultra HD distribution platform. Frontier is the latest MVPD to join SES’s milestone trials aimed at accelerating Ultra HD delivery to homes across North America. SES has a growing number […]
Arqiva, the UK’s largest independent towers company and communications infrastructure group, has announced record revenues and EBITDA for the half year to December 31st 2016. Revenue was up 10 per cent to £466 million (€546m), a 13 per cent increase from continuing operations. EBITDA was up 11 per cent at £231 million. Arqiva said it […]
Time warner is to dispose of its broadcast station in Atlanta, Georgia, in order to side-step potential problems with the FCC over its planned merger with AT&T. Meredith Corp is the buyer for a reported $70 million. But the sale brings to an end a long tradition of Time Warner – and Ted Turner’s – […]