With Discovery and its leading sports brand Eurosport on track to deliver the Olympic Winter Games to more people, across more screens than ever before, the broadcaster has developed a first-of-its kind methodology to measure audience behaviour across Europe. Discovery has unveiled three new metrics, which together will capture ‘Total Video’ – the new ‘TV’—across […]
Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange are hiking the prices of their convergent packages in an attempt to get higher revenues. The combination of low cost promotions and the high bill they’re paying for football TV rights is driving them down a dead end in terms of profitability. To mitigate this, they increasing prices by up to […]
Research on the pay-TV channel ecosystem shows India powering revenue and profit growth for regional pay-TV broadcasters in Asia Pacific. Revenue for pay-TV channel groups owned by global media companies expanded by 4 per cent in 2017 to reach around $5 billion (€4bn) across the region, while EBITDA grew 9 per cent Y/Y to reach […]
The RAI licence fee boosted revenues for the 5 major Italian broadcasters by 6.5 per cent to €9 billion in 2016, according to a study carried out by Mediobanca’s R&D division. Of the total, free-to-air accounts for €5 billion (+9.8 per cent), pay-TV for €3.4 billion (+2.6 per cent) and radio for €0.6 million (+3.2 […]
Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport is offering fans the first ever live Virtual Reality (VR) coverage of the Olympic Winter Games across Europe. The Winter Olympics Eurosport VR app will be the only destination in Europe for fans to fully immerse themselves in the Games using VR, with more than 50 hours of live coverage available […]
According to Dataxis research, linear OTT pay-TV market in Europe reached 7.4 million subscribers at the end of September 2017. This represents a growth of 13 per cent compared to the previous quarter. Over the years the number of linear OTT offers has been increasing, driven by the growth observed in offer specialised in sports […]
Telefónica and Netflix are finalising an agreement to integrate the SvoD giant’s content on the Movistar Plus pay-TV platform. The deal – still to be signed – would allow Movistar Plus to offer its 3.7 million subscribers all Netflix cinema and TV series. Unlike its rivals Vodafone and Orange, Telefónica is seeking a complete integration […]
UK broadcasters Sky Sports F1 and Channel 4 have revealed the Grands Prix that will be shown live on their respective pay-TV and free-to-air platforms during the 2018 season. As part of its live coverage of all 21 race weekends from across the globe, Sky Sports F1 will show exclusive coverage of the first grand […]
Georgian multiplay telco Silknet has acquired Geocell, the second-largest mobile telecommunications operator in the Republic of Georgia from Geocell’s shareholders, Telia Company and Turkcell in a $153 million (€123m) transaction which combines Silknet’s broadband, pay-TV and fixed telephony operations with Geocell’s mobile operations, creating a major convergent telecoms company. The acquisition will be financed through […]
The Spanish pay-TV market set new records in subscriptions and revenues in the first half of 2017. Data from the CNMC reveals that pay-TV surpassed 6.1 million subscribers and made €1.042 billion in revenues to June, more than FTA channels for the first time in the six month period. Pay-TV subscribers grew by 4 per […]