Netflix is raising the price of its most popular streaming option by $1 a month to $9.99 for new customers in the US, Canada and parts of Latin America following a similar move in Europe earlier this year. Existing customers will have a grace period of varying lengths before prices go up for them, the […]
The majority of advertisers (78 per cent) have already leveraged some form of advanced TV in their marketing efforts, according to the findings of Advanced TV: Ad Buyer Perceptions, a survey of 255 brand and agency decision-makers published by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and its Digital Video Center of Excellence. The survey, conducted by […]
HBO’s on-demand streaming service HBO Go is set to launch in Latin America and the Caribbean as a standalone subscription product. While HBO Go has been available in these areas for pay-TV subscribers, cord-cutters will soon be able to access it too – with added benefits. The service is expected to be similar to HBO […]
Ericsson Mobile TeleSystems and Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm, have successfully completed their first live tests of LTE Broadcast. The trial took place at MTS’ office in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, while video content was distributed from Aachen, Germany, using Ericsson’s end-to-end LTE Broadcast solution, which shows the feasibility of a fully distributed […]
HBO’s online only premium streaming service, HBO NOW, is available on the Roku platform. Roku customers in the US can now visit the Roku Channel Store to add the HBO NOW streaming channel to their Roku players (including the newly announced Roku 4) and Roku TV models. Roku customers can purchase a subscription directly within […]
Over the next eight weeks TalkTalk is letting viewers access TV channels for free which are normally available through TalkTalk’s TV Boosts – starting this weekend with the H2 and Crime and Investigation channels from midday Friday until midnight Sunday. The full schedule is: 9 – 11 October: H2 and Crime and Investigation 16 – […]
Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s vice president for EMEA has suggested that although time spent online is now eclipsing time spent on television, we are living in a golden age of TV, with Facebook and TV “happy bedfellows”. Delivering a Media Mastermind Keynote, she noted that video is exploding, quoting Cisco research predicting that it will account […]
Pay-TV subscriptions for 338 operators across 89 countries will increase by 200 million from a collective 704 million in 2014 to 904 million by 2020, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Global Pay TV Operator Forecasts report estimates that 29 operators had more than 5 million paying subs by end-2014. China Radio […]
The BBC has published its submission to the Government’s consultation on the future of the Corporation. It says the document sets out the case for a new Charter allowing the BBC to continue to serve all audiences, focus investment on British content, and act as the cornerstone of Britain’s creative industries. It also sets out […]
Portuguese national broadcasters RTP, SIC and TVI have submitted a complaint to the country’s media sector regulator (ERC) against Portugal Telecom’s pay-TV unit Meo. At issue is the decision of the new owners of the company (Altice) to stop paying for the distribution of the free-to-air channels on the pay-TV platform. According to local daily […]