Arabsat’s Badr-6 satellite (Badr = Full Moon of Full Moons) was launched back in July 2008 and orbits from the 26 degrees East orbital slot. Arabsat, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is to replace and expand the scope and reach of the position. A report from Arabsat says that the satellite operator will invest $350 […]
Sky Atlantic drama Billions, starring Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti, has been viewed more than 11 million times through Sky’s on demand platforms – including Sky Box Sets, the Sky Go app and online streaming service NOW TV. Within the first 24 hours alone, Billions was downloaded 500,000 times, a record for any show on […]
Research commissioned by NZ On Air shows New Zealanders’ media consumption habits are changing rapidly as the media environment and technology changes. And the most rapid change is with younger audiences. The research is a follow-up to a survey first carried out in 2014, which provides the only independent, publicly available data across media types. […]
The European Commission has made pay-tv contract concessions offered by Hollywood studio Paramount legally binding under EU antitrust rules. The concessions address the Commission’s concerns regarding clauses in film licensing contracts for pay-TV between Paramount and Sky UK that forbad Sky from letting EU citizens outside UK view the content and made Paramount responsible for preventing any […]
ITV has reported a 9 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £425 million (€506m) in the first half of the year. It said net advertising revenue would slip by about 1 per cent in the first nine months of the year. The broadcaster said revenue increased by 11 per cent in the first half […]
French media group Vivendi has clarified that its CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine, in a letter dated June 21st, informed Mediaset Management of significant differences in the analysis of its subsidiary, Mediaset Premium’s results, for which the two companies are currently in negotiations. In addition, the Group made a proposal to Mediaset on July 25th to […]
Media analysts at Deutsche Bank now caution that investors must consider Italy’s Mediaset as a “take-out” candidate, and – in the bank’s view – is now the leading M&A prospect in the Media sector. Events this week, not least Vivendi completely altering the ‘agreement’ it had to acquire 100 per cent of Mediaset Premium, have […]
Portugal Telecom’s pay-TV unit Meo has joined the sports content sharing agreement, signed earlier this month by Portuguese operators Cabovisão, Nos and Vodafone. Under this partnership, customers of the four pay-TV operators will get access to TV broadcasting rights for matches and club channels – already acquired or to be acquired in the future by […]
Intelsat’s revenue picture continues to suffer, with a 9 per cent decline in its Q2 revenues of $473 million (€430m) and Adjusted EBITDA income of $411 million. CEO Stephen Spengler, in a statement, said “Although headwinds continue to exist in our business our launch programme and strategy execution are in line with the Guidance we […]
BBC iPlayer saw an excellent start to the summer with 290 million requests across TV and radio in June, driven by major events in the sporting calendar including Wimbledon and the Euro 2016 football tournament. This was an increase of 6 per cent on May, and higher than June 2015 by 39 million requests. TV […]