Last week rocket company SpaceX said it expected satellite launch costs to fall some 30 per cent once it had perfected its landing and thus re-use of its Falcon-9 rockets. The news was welcomed by equity analysts at Exane-BNP/Paribas, who said that this could mean the launch costs for a satellite operator falling from today’s […]
Mexican TV group Televisa has confirmed it is removing all it content from Netflix in order to keep the content exclusively for its own VoD platform, Blim, that will launch later this year. “Televisa content will be exclusively for Blim; that’s our strategy,” said Blim’s director general, Carlos Sandoval in an interview with Forbes. There […]
India’s public broadcaster Doordarshan’s ‘Freedish’ DTH service is to switch to MPEG-4 transmission, and thus increase to 112 the number of channels it can offer to viewers. The ‘Freedish’ option is extremely important to consumers in rural India where cable systems are limited. ‘Freedish’ is also to encrypt. Viewers need a Conditional Access key in […]
Several Israeli newspapers report that Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a telephone call with French president Francois Hollande, demanded that a Palestinian TV channel Al-Aqsa be removed from Eutelsat’s Middle East satellite. The Israeli press reports say that Eutelsat took the channel down this past weekend, only for the channel to reappear later transmitting […]
Sky Media has chosen Yospace to provide a dynamic advertisement replacement solution for Sky Go, its ‘TV everywhere’ service in Europe. In addition to enabling dynamic ad serving on Sky Go Linear for the first time, Sky is now also able to reproduce the key targeting benefits of its successful Sky AdSmart technology across connected […]
Eutelsat has announced that Singtel, one of Asia’s leading communications groups, has selected capacity on its Eutelsat 70B satellite to support network connectivity in South-East Asia. Singtel is establishing a new relationship with Eutelsat, a global satellite operator, through a flexible contract that enables it to progressively ramp up capacity over the coming 12 months […]
The BBC has held talks with rivals including ITV about launching a Netflix-style video SVoD streaming service. The talks, which are also said to have involved NBC Universal, focus on the potential to develop a subscription TV service. The service would major on providing archive TV content from the broadcasters rather than the first-run of […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) suggest that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 385,000 net video subscribers in 2015, compared to a loss of about 150,000 subscribers in 2014, and a loss of about 100,000 subscribers in 2013. The top […]
According to research and consultancy firm Ampere Analysis, the market for triple-play bundling is reaching saturation point. In mature markets such as North America and Europe the average communications subscription has almost two products to every customer, and some providers have upsold three. Bundling TV, fixed phone and broadband has been a key way for […]
In a move to counteract Telefonica’s low cost pay-TV offers, Vodafone is launching its “Super Weekend” promotion to give its TV package TV Esencial free for a year to new customers signing up between March 11th and 13th. New subscribers will save €144 a year as the package costs €12 a month. Vodafone TV Esencial […]