TalkTalk has again been named the most complained about ISP in the UK, in the latest report from the telecoms regulator Ofcom. For every 100,000 TalkTalk customers, around 31 made a complaint to Ofcom about the company’s broadband services between October and December 2017. Technical faults were the main reason for complaints. BT came out […]
Sky Deutschland will launch the advanced Sky Q service next month. Sky Q will be available to all its pay-TV subscribers in Germany and Austria, with Sky+ Pro subscribers receiving the upgrade at no extra cost. Sky Q will also be offered automatically to all new Sky customers. Unlike in the UK and Italy, where […]
BT has revealed it will make the first episode of AMC’s The Terror available to watch for for free on YouTube. Viewers can watch the opening instalment of the thriller on YouTube for 24 hours from 00:01am on April 24th. BT says it is the first time a pay-TV show has launched in the UK on […]
Sky Italia has revealed that a Milan court has suspended the tender for national TV rights to the Italian Serie A for the seasons 2018-2021. The satellite broadcaster requested checks on whether the process that awarded the football rights to Spain’s MediaPro was in line with Italian laws. According to Sky Italia, the tender “rises […]
Gerson Zweifach, group general counsel of 21st Century Fox, has suggested that certain UK politicians have a political agenda in respect of the company’s bid to acquire the 61 per cent of Sky it does not already own, accusing them of seeking to enlist regulators in a political war. Writing an opinion piece in the […]
UK multiplay telco BT has revealed plans to launch BT Sport Box Office, a pay-per-view channel which will be available on BT TV and the Sky platform. A brief announcement on the BT Sport website to that effect suggests that the service will be available “later this year”. “Watch this space for announcements coming soon!” […]
The number of subscribers to pay-TV in Korea keeps falling, especially among the younger generation and one-person households. According to research by the Korea Information Society Development Institute, the service termination rate reached 6.86 per cent last year, up from 6.54 per cent the year before. The rate had fallen from 5.97 per cent in […]
Global pay-TV revenues peaked in 2016 at $205 billion (€166bn), according to the Global Pay TV Revenue Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Revenues will fall by 11 per cent to $183 billion in 2023, despite the number of pay-TV subscribers rising by 9 per cent. Revenues per subscriber are declining as more homes convert […]
In 2017, global consumer expenditure on entertainment content (video, games and music) worldwide continued to climb. By 2021, this spend is set to reach $439 billion (€355bn) globally, a 17 per cent increase from 2017, according to the latest Global Entertainment Content Outlook report from Futuresource Consulting. “As expected, TV and Video account for the […]
Israeli multiplay operator Partner Communications has revealed what it describes as a first of its kind collaboration agreement between Amazon Prime Video and its Partner TV unit. Partner TV customers now have direct access to the Amazon Prime Video service on their Partner TV set-top box, which offers access to view a broad selection of […]