Sky has launched its first offer that brings together Sky Mobile and Sky TV. For £35 (€38) a month the deal includes a new iPhone SE handset on a Swap24 plan, with 500MB of data, Unlimited Calls and Texts and Sky TV’s Variety bundle. Available to new customers joining Sky or existing Sky TV customers […]
Vodafone Spain is giving offering its Vodafone Total premium package for free for three months to existing subscribers to the basic offer TV Esencial or TV Extra. The move echoes a similar offer from rival Telefónica. Until September 30th, subscribers will be able to change their subscription package with no extra cost – giving access […]
Telefónica has just joined the price war with low cost pay-TV to capture subscribers by launching a promotion that will allow subscribers to enjoy Movistar’s premium TV package for free until 2018. New subscribers will now receive the free premium TV package until the end of the year, with current subscribers receiving two months for […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom is facing judicial review over its ruling that Sky would remain ‘fit and proper’ to hold a UK broadcasting licence should the 21st Century Fox bid for the outstanding shares it does not already own be successful. Hausfeld, the law firm representing advocacy group Avaaz, has issued a ‘letter before claim’ to […]
Pay-TV broadcaster Canal Plus Group says it is winning ratings in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. Canal Plus Advertising (C+A), a subsidiary of the broadcaster’s international division, says its audience share is up 1 per cent y-o-y to an average of 29 per cent. C+A used survey data from Kantar TNS and its Africascope survey which was […]
Revenues from OTT TV episodes and movies for 19 Latin American countries will reach $4.6 billion (€3.91bn) in 2022; up from the $1.87 billion recorded in 2016, according to Digital TV Research. According to the firm, SVoD will remain the region’s largest OTT revenue source; contributing $2.86 billion by 2022 (62 per cent of the […]
According to Chase Carey, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Formula One Group, the sport faces a major challenge as it plans the way races are viewed in the future. Motorsport Network Formula One expert Adam Cooper says that Carey acknowledges that generating income from fans who are willing to pay for a […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel and premium channel Fox Sports are to be merged into a single company that could be listed on the stock exchange, owners News Corp and Telstra have announced. Fox Sports is completely owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, while Telstra and Foxtel currently share ownership of Foxtel. The pair say the […]
According to analyst firm The Diffusion Group (TDG), although virtual pay-TV services are immature and years away from ‘five-9’ reliability, subscribers overwhelmingly consider service value to be very solid. In TDG’s Q2 Benchmarking the Connected Consumer project – a survey of more than 2,000 US adult broadband users – less than 5 per cent of […]
Roger Lynch, CEO at Charlie Ergen/DISH Network-backed Sling TV, is leaving the broadcaster to take up the President/CEO position at music streaming site Pandora. Lynch has been one of Ergen’s key executives and in July 2012 founding-CEO at OTT service Sling TV. He had worked with Ergen at DISHNetwork and EchoStar. He also spent time […]