Free was the first platform to launch the Canal+ a la Demande service and has a catalogue of some 10,000 VOD titles. Iliad currently has a total of 3,134,000 subscribers, which will rise to 3,984,000 following the acquisition of Alice. First half EBITDA increased by 24.4% to E256.9 million.
Unless a deal is struck Gilat's board of directors will meet this weekend to decide whether to continue negotiations or sue the investors who agreed to take the company private for $475m, or $11.40 per share. If Gilat opts to go to court, as many other spurned takeover targets have in the past year, it […]
The new satellite is 60 times as powerful as the whole fleet of its predecessors and can provide broadband at up to 500Kb per second. While that may seem low compared with the speed available to the average UK household, which is 10 times greater, it is a massive improvement on the current speed of […]
Television executives predict a growing appetite for Internet television, with 47 per cent believing that by 2010 Internet TV will be embraced by the majority of viewers, but for a minority of viewing. Jolyon Barker, head of Deloitte's Technology, said: “There are a number of factors preventing Internet TV from becoming mass market and competing […]
The report – Taking Advantage of the Best of IPTV and SatTV – from the firm's Telecoms, Information, Media & Electronics (TIME) Practice, predicts that it will not be long before linear TV is replaced by an on-demand, ad hoc consumption model, brought about by consumers' growing familiarity with Personal Video Recorder (PVR) and on […]
“DTV will grow an average of 12 per cent year-on-year, with particularly strong adoption in the near term as broadcasters terminate analogue terrestrial television,” says Chris Khouri, analyst for media and broadcasting at Datamonitor. “In 2007 there were 158 million households using digital television services in Western Europe and the US. By 2012, Datamonitor expects […]
With a whopping 80 per cent of people confused over industry terminology such as HD Ready vs. HD Ready 1080p (Full HD) and 25 per cent of Brits not understanding what HD is – thinking that owning a TV with an HD Ready logo or a digital box instantly makes all programmes high definition – […]
CCTV, China's state broadcaster, is understood to have paid around $9 million for the 2008 coverage in the course of which it has generated around $400 million in advertising revenues. The opening ceremony alone attracted a Chinese audience of 842 million. Timo Lumme, marketing director for the International Olympic Committee, said China's broadcasting costs for […]
As awareness grows and sales of “HD ready” TV sets continue to rise, Sky expects to add even more HD channels by the end of 2008. The addition of the new channels in October will increase the total number of HD channels on the Sky platform to 26, compared with nine channels when Sky+ HD […]