At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the CEO of Vodafone Spain, Antonio Coimbra, has demanded a new “exploitation model” for TV football rights, as he believes the current high prices are no longer sustainable. “In Spain, it is more profitable losing all subscribers than paying for the football rights,” he said. Coimbra explained that the […]
Two brothers from Ciudad Real, in the Castilla La Mancha Region, have been arrested for pirating pay-TV signals and illegally distributed them to 3,000 subscribers. The network decrypted the pay-TV signals and then distributed them at lower prices than the official ones, earning them some half a million Euros a year. The probe started after […]
The Isle of Man’s Department for Enterprise has appointed a local consortium led by Greenlight Television, and supported by Isle of Man-based SES and Duke Marketing, as host broadcaster for the TT Races and Classic TT from 2018 onwards following a recent tender process. Greenlight Television is one of the world’s leading motorsport television producers […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar has made the first move in putting pressure on Mediapro to reduce the price of football TV rights in Spain. The company has decided not to bid for the Champions League and La Liga TV rights in an attempt to put the pressure on for a cut in the cost of […]
Telecom Italia looks set to pull out of a proposed joint-venture with Canal+, the pay-TV arm of its top shareholder French media group Vivendi, according to a Reuters report. Under the terms of the joint-venture, which had been challenged by Telecom Italia’s independent directors, the phone group would pay for content provided by Canal+. An […]
Pay-TV in Spain is significantly increasing its revenue share well ahead of FTA. In the third quarter of the year, pay-TV made €523.1 million, up 14 per cent on the same period last year, according to the CNMC. Meanwhile, FTA TV’s revenues amounted to €371.4 million, up just 3.6 per cent. Most of the pay-TV […]
MásMóvil, the fourth ranked Spanish telco, and Huawei are preparing to launch their pay-TV offer within the next few weeks. They have entered into an alliance with Agile Content, a specialist in TV content and big data, to provide the TV service. With this agreement, MásMóvil and Huawei aim to avoid paying the 0.7 per […]
NOW TV Stick is available to buy from a number UK high street stores from February 23rd, and will be available to purchase online from February 26th. Available from £14.99, (€17) Sky claims it is the UK’s cheapest streaming stick. A range of Stick and pass bundles are available, including: Two-month NOW TV Entertainment pass, […]
Orange Spain is performing well in a competitive market in terms of profits and subscribers. The company ended the year with 17 per cent rise in EBITDA up to €1.58 billion on revenues of €5.37 billion, and up 7.1 per cent year-on-year. Spain is the country with the highest growth for the French telco group, […]
iflix, the SVoD service for emerging markets, and Econet Media’s pan-African media company, Kwesé have expanded their partnership in sub-Saharan Africa. Kwesé has acquired a significant stake in iflix Africa, which will now form part of Kwesé’s diverse broadcast offering, as the core vehicle to deliver seamless mobile experiences to millions of viewers in Africa. […]