UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky showed a hard-hitting sexually explicit movie at 21.00 immediately after having screened 5 back-to-back episodes of The Simpsons. Broadcasting regulator Ofcom, in its report on a complaint received regarding strong language and sex scenes within an 18-rated action-thriller movie ‘Wanted’, said: “The complainant said that her 11-year-old son was watching and […]
MultiChoice, despite its recent political problems, has seen strong subscriber growth. In the half-year to September 30th the South African pay-TV operator added almost 600,000 new subs, up 10 per cent on the same period a year ago. Not all the growth came from its DStv satellite service. The biggest rise came from GOtv, its […]
Mexican multiplay telco América Móvil has entered into an agreement with the International Olympic Committee for the broadcast and exhibition through digital and pay-TV platforms of the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 and Paris in 2024, the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang in 2018 and Beijing in 2022, and the Youth Olympic Games […]
UK commercial broadcasters Channel 4, ITV and Sky are joining forces to launch The Big TV Festival, an unprecedented collaboration between the broadcasters. Co-produced with Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, The Big TV Festival will take place on February 8-9 2018 in a bespoke set created in Blackwood Forest, Hampshire. […]
South African-based pay-TV broadcaster MultiChoice has strongly refuted that it paid any bribes or kickbacks in regard to the fees paid by the broadcaster to news channel ANN7, or to the public broadcaster SABC in relation to the provision of set-top boxes for reception of the country’s digital terrestrial services. The allegations are creating something […]
A licensee in the Merseyside area of northwest England has been found guilty of two offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports football matches to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Sam Tate, designated premises supervisor of the Queens Hotel, Bootle, was found guilty in his absence of two […]
AT&T and Time Warner have submitted a joint court filing arguing that their proposed $85.4 billion (€78.5bn) merger is “pro-competitive” and “pro-consumer”, seeking to refute claims by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) that the deal breaks antitrust law and would substantially lessen competition, resulting in higher prices and less innovation for millions of Americans. […]
The future of residential pay-TV services will be wrought from an intensifying clash between virtual operators such as Sling TV and DirecTV Now, and traditional cable, satellite, and telco pay-TV providers according to a report from research and advisory firm The Diffusion Group (TDG). Unfortunately, the battle will be for a larger slice of a […]
South Africa’s pay-TV broadcaster Multichoice, owned by giant conglomerate Naspers, is facing allegations of being linked to local corruption claims between a TV channel, the immensely powerful Gupta family and the country’s former Minister of Communications, Mrs Faith Muthambi. The channel is ANN7, described by most local observers as a highly partisan News broadcaster and […]
Jeremy Darroch, CEO of Sky, has called on Europe’s policy makers to ensure a level regulatory playing field, suggesting that licensed broadcasters such as Sky are disadvantaged having to compete against global online platforms. Delivering a speech on TV, Technology and Policy at an audiovisual policy conference in Tallinn, Estonia, Darroch noted that much of […]