With warmer weather beckoning and consumers leaving the comforts of home for holiday destinations, many want to be able to put their pay-TV subscriptions on pause during the summer months. Research from Paywizard, a specialist in subscriber management for pay-TV, highlights that today’s subscribers are looking for greater flexibility from their TV packages. The research […]
SVoD has become a core viewing component for many pay-TV non-subscribers, according to consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, which finds that 59 per cent of all US households have a SVoD service from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and/or Hulu – up from 47 per cent in 2014. SVoD services are particularly popular among non-subscribers to […]
Sky Q, Sky’s next generation home entertainment system, is introducing more new features designed to make it even easier for customers to find and watch their favourite TV shows. After the successful launch of Sky Q in February, Auto Play, an improved Top Picks and a range of other features are set to make Sky […]
US satellite broadcaster DISH Network has reported revenue totaling $3.84 billion (€3.48bn) for the quarter ending June 30th 2016, compared to $3.83 billion for the corresponding period in 2015. Subscriber-related revenue increased to $3.83 billion from $3.80 billion in the year-ago period. Net income attributable to DISH Network totaled $410 million for the second quarter […]
The Chinese online video market, including revenue from advertising and content purchases, is forecast to more than quadruple from 22 billion Chinese yuan (€3.1bn) in 2015 to 96.2 billion yuan in 2020. With the rapid adoption of smartphones and growing penetration of broadband, Chinese consumers are gradually switching from TV to online for video content. […]
July 28th sees Sky unveil its Q4 and full year results (to June 30th) and equity analysts at Deutsche Bank suggest that investors should not be obsessed with the usual key performance indicators (subs, churn, and such like) and instead focus on Sky’s core financials. Analyst Laurie Davison warns that Sky will suffer rising UK […]
Content delivery specialist Limelight Networks has confirmed that UK public service broadcaster Channel 4 has chosen the Limelight Orchestrate Content Delivery platform to deliver its programming to viewers on demand. “Channel 4 is known as an innovative trailblazer at the forefront of delivering our programmes to our viewers across the UK who prefer to watch […]
SpaceX is asking US government permission to take-over two extra landing pads at the Cape Canaveral Air Force rocket base so that it could – if it wished – return three rocket boosters to Earth after launch. It already has one dedicated landing platform at the Cape, plus a floating barge (named “Of course I […]
Broadcast connectivity expert SIS LIVE is to provide Ultra HD fibre connectivity for Sky Sports Ultra HD coverage of the Premier League. From the start of the 2016-17 Premier League football season on 13 August, SIS LIVE will utilise its Anylive fibre network to deliver Ultra HD pictures for 124 games covered by Sky Sports. […]
Ericsson has extended its playout, VoD and access services contracts with UKTV, the biggest multichannel broadcaster in the UK. Ericsson will continue to deliver playout services for UKTV’s channels including Dave, the UK’s most watched non-public service broadcasting channel; premium entertainment channel W; free-to-air channels Really, Yesterday and Home; and Gold, Alibi, Drama, Eden and […]