With opportunities to access TV content becoming almost infinite – dozens of services now offer anywhere/anytime access – viewers’ reasons for buying and using digital media players are shifting. According to GfK’s The Home Technology Monitor, 64 per cent of digital media player owners report that at least one of their players is connected to […]
Pay-TV penetration is increasingly growing in Spain with 5.75 million homes subscribing to a service at the end of the first quarter, up 200,000 against the previous quarter. The Latest figures from Spain’s National Authority for Markets and Competition (CNMC) reveal that 81.2 per cent of the households are receiving it through a convergent package. […]
Connected consumers across APAC are watching more video content than ever before, according to the findings from Kantar TNS’s Connected Life study into the behaviours of Internet users across the globe. The study shows that people are consuming a wide variety of online video – from online TV or subscription services like Netflix, to free […]
To mark World Television Day – the UN’s celebration of the global cultural impact of television – TV companies from around the world have compiled facts and stats to bring the scale and popularity of TV to life as it continues to live at the heart of the world’s media consumption. Today, like every other […]
Brazil’s largest-ever communications satellite, Embratel’s Star One D1 has arrived at Arianespace’s French Guiana spaceport for pre-launch preparation. Built by Space Systems/Loral, the satellite weighs in at 6433 Kgs and will handle TV, radio, voice and data – including Internet. The satellite’s Ku-band enables video transmission services directly to users, along with Internet, data and […]
Sky’s Group CEO Jeremy Darroch has said that while sport remains a key part of its broadcast portfolio, the content rights aren’t as important as they once were. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference in Barcelona, Darroch said: “Sport is very important, obviously football is very important, but relatively, every day it is less […]
In a move that it says creates a TV Anywhere home for performance motoring and motorsport, Motorsport Network has acquired Motors TV, consolidating the world’s largest automotive and motorsport digital technology business with a global broadcast operation. The acquisition of the broadcaster that reaches more than 30 million homes with 130 rights agreements and 700 […]
AOL has released a research study exploring UK consumer viewing attitudes for short form digital video, finding that it has now become the primary news source for younger audiences. More than half (52 per cent) of 18-24 year olds said that they prefer getting their news from short form videos than reading it. The research […]
Newly-proposed satellite constellations seemingly now pop up every day. November 15th saw Elon Musk propose a potential 4400 satellites for his global high-speed broadband system. Coincidentally, November 15th also saw Canada-based Telesat, which today has a global fleet of 15 satellites (plus two others now being built), confirming it wants a low-orbiting constellation of 117 […]
The major release by Amazon Prime of the Clarkson-Hammond-May The Grand Tour motoring show, reportedly a $100 million investment, and hot on the heels of Netflix’s The Crown, again with a massive per-episode budget, is a sign of how the video industry is changing. The Grand Tour will be available in more than 200 markets […]