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 […]
Gemalto, a specialist in digital security, is providing a secure licensing solution for Snell Advanced Media (SAM), a provider of live production, editing, playout, infrastructure and image processing technology for the broadcast, post production and media industries. Sentinel Entitlement Management System (EMS) and Sentinel Rights Management System (RMS) enable SAM to streamline licensing operations and […]
Data from Juniper Research forecasts that revenues from SVoD services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, are set to more than double from $14.6 billion (€13.2bn) this year, to $34.6 billion in 2021. Netflix now has US subscriber numbers that are level with the nation’s leading network providers DirecTV and Comcast (47 million and 47.7 […]
Connected service Sky+ has introduced its new homepage design introduced to help customers discover even more TV to watch. The latest update adds editorial Top Picks to the Sky+ Homepage. The new section gives customers’ recommendations on the best new TV from entertainment channels such as Sky Atlantic and Fox. Additionally, depending on customers’ subscriptions […]
Findings from the Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker indicate that 55 per cent of OTT services in the US have a subscription-only business model, such as Netflix or Hulu. In Canada, 50 per cent of OTT services offer subscription-only services. “There is an enormous amount of change going on in the OTT space right […]
Ahead of the 2016 Olympic games, Snell Advanced Media (SAM), found that almost one in three Americans (31 per cent) would like to watch the Olympics on Netflix if it was available to them, though more than half of Americans (56 per cent) will watch at home via their live cable or satellite TV this […]
TalkTalk has reported Q1 revenues were flat year-on-year (-0.4 per cent). On-net revenues were down 2 per cent as anticipated, reflecting the smaller average on-net base in the quarter. Corporate revenue grew strongly by 7.5 per cent with continuing growth in Data (+38.5 per cent) and further growth in Carrier revenues (+40 per cent) helping […]
Videology – a software provider for converged TV and video advertising – has reported that view through rate remained the priority for UK advertisers and agencies when establishing campaign objectives. According to an analysis of all impressions run through Videology’s platform in Q2 2016, 58 per cent of UK advertisers optimised their campaigns towards view […]
The political problems in the Ukraine where Russia has taken control of the Crimea region has led to a reduction in the number of Russian-language channels operating over Ukraine. Russian channels have decreased since 2014 from 72 channels to just 14 currently. Ukrainian channels have increased from 101 to 122 channels. The data comes from […]