The impressive subscriber numbers from Netflix should worry traditional broadcasters, says one analyst. Adding around 7 million net subscribers (5.1 million international) during its Q4 suggests that sometime this Spring, Netflix will pass the 100 million subscriber mark. Currently the subscriber base is 93.8 million. US ARPU grew a massive 14.9 per cent, while International […]
Talks between China’s Beijing Xinwei Technology Group and Spacecom of Israel have broken down. Some five months of dialogue, and not helped by the September 1st loss of the AMOS-6 satellite, have scuppered the prospects of a sale by Spacecom. Spacecom, which operates the Amos fleet of satellites, simply says that the talks ended without […]
Italian broadcaster Mediaset expects an EBIT improvement on the Italian TV activities of €468 million by 2020. According to the development guidelines and business/financial goals presented to financial analysts in London, market share on the total advertising market in Italy should go up from the current 37.4 per cent to more than 39 per cent […]
HBO Now leads customer satisfaction amogst US SVoD services according to a survey, conducted by Strategy Analytics. The research firm found that HBO Now ranked highest for customer satisfaction in 11 of 14 categories against the likes Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video. The 14 categories focused on three key areas: the number and availability of […]
Shares in troubled speciality satellite operator Avanti Communications slumped again on January 18th, hitting a near all-time low of just 19p. As recently as December 21st its share price was 30p. A year prior (Oct 23 2015) its shares were trading at 245p (and back in July 2012 stood at 419p). The fall in sentiment […]
Global performance management company Nielsen has agreed a multi-year deal with multiplay telco AT&T to include anonymised set-top box data from connected homes subscribed to AT&T’s DirecTV and U-Verse services into Nielsen’s local and national TV currency ratings services. According to Nielsen, further enhancing the Nielsen Total Audience strategy, the data from the AT&T set-top […]
Sky Italia has presented a reorganisation plan to unions that foresees the transfer of news channel Sky TG24 from Rome to Milan. The plan consists of a number of efficiency measures that involve, in varying degrees, all offices and most of the corporate departments, including the IT and technology department and regional offices. According to […]
Discovery Communications has confirmed major distribution deals with TDC benefiting audiences in both Denmark and Norway, with a continued focus on the aggressive expansion of its digital business. The deal between Discovery and TDC-owned YouSee enables 1.3 million Danish households to gain access to Kanal 4, Kanal 5 & 6, Eurosport and other Discovery owned […]
As expected, SES-10 will be launched by SpaceX on one of its ‘pre-flown’ and recovered first-stage Falcon 9 rockets. SES-10, owned by SES of Luxembourg and built by Airbus Defence & Space, has been shipped from France to the Cape Canaveral SpaceX pre-launch and preparation site at Kennedy Space Centre where it will be readied […]
Espial has announced that the Tele Columbus advanceTV experience has commercially launched this week for German consumers. With the launch in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, and elsewhere within the Tele Columbus footprint, Tele Columbus is now poised to accelerate subscriber growth with this personalised and converged video service. advanceTV viewers will enjoy an immersive, 4K experience […]