TF1’s pay-TV news channel LCI will shift to free DTT on April 5th, as part of the Mpeg-4 switch-off that will see all FTA DTT channels in France turn HD. The French regulator CSA made the announcement after signing the official agreement and confirmed that LCI will be broadcast on channel 26. Owing to the […]
Last week’s Dish Network results tended to focus on founder Charlie Ergen’s statement that pay-TV was now a mature market. Indeed, overall his US pay-TV service Dish Network lost some 81,000 subscribers. But there’s an upside to the story. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ergen’s new baby, Dish’s Sling TV ‘pay-TV lite’ streaming […]
Discovery Italia and Sky Italia have rebranded two of their flagship general entertainment DTT channels in Italy. Deejay TV, acquired last year by Discovery Italia from Italian multimedia group Espresso, has now changed its name to Nove Deejay. The change sees the channel retaining part of its name, but also adding the number of its […]
A consortium comprising aerospace giants Airbus Defence & Space and Safran/Snecma is in the process of buying the Arianespace rocket-launching business complete with the 35 per cent stake held by the French government’s CNES space agency. But the plan is at risk of stumbling – at least for some months – while a European Commission […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel is planning to launch a TV streaming device in an effort to compete more effectively with OTT players such as Netflix. Any such initiative would pitch Foxtel against Telstra TV, the service owned by Foxtel’s 50 per cent shareholder Telstra. Foxtel’s other shareholder is Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (Twenty-First Century Fox, […]
Blue Skye Entertainment, a Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks joint venture, has launched its new, direct-to-consumer Love Nature 4K SVoD service in 32 countries worldwide, including UK, Australia, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand and Switzerland. On Love Nature, subscribers will enjoy a robust library of documentaries, series, featured themes and exclusive natural history scenes updated […]
Satellite operator Intelsat’s Q4 and full-year numbers are both down on the same period last year. Q4 saw revenue of $571 million ($619 million, same period last year) and FY-2015 revenues were $2.353 billion ($2.472). The operator’s data saw management say that 2015’s full year performance was much in line with previous guidance and the […]
Pixel Power, the automation, branding and graphics innovator, has created a mosaic service that can be remotely triggered, at the Spanish playout provider Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA). The system was designed and implemented by Pixel Power’s distributor in Spain, Qinmedia. The new system depends upon two Pixel Power LogoVision 3D graphics devices, together with a […]
Canal+ Group and iROKO are launching the iroko+ SVoD service for French-speaking Africa. The Android app will be available across all of French Speaking Africa, bringing 1,500 hours of affordable, premium Nollywood & Télénovelas content to millions of Francophone entertainment fans. Available now on the GooglePlay store, iroko+ is free until June 1st and users […]
The six leading pay-TV services in the US gained 125,000 subscribers overall in the last quarter of 2015 but the informitv Multiscreen Index shows that they collectively lost 781,000 subscribers over the year: i.e. less than 1 per cent of their subscriber base. While 4 of the 6 leading services lost television subscribers over the […]