Sky has confirmed the extension of its long-standing partnership with NBCUniversal. The extensive multi-year agreements cover Sky Cinema and NBCUniversal International Networks’ (NBCUIN) suite of channel brands for Sky’s customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria. The partnership also includes a comprehensive EST and TVoD agreement for Sky Store across those territories. Sky customers […]
Global adoption of the RDK (Reference Design Kit) software solutions that provide a common platform for powering customer-premises equipment (CPE) for TV and Internet service providers is up 67 per cent since the same time last year, now reaching 25 service providers, according to Steve Heeb, President and General Manager of RDK Management, a joint […]
Forecasts from the Global Pay-TV Subscriber Forecasts report from Digital TV Research suggest a total of 134 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2016 and 2022 to take the total 1.09 billion. Based on forecasts for 138 countries, the number of pay-TV subscribers will pass the 1 billion mark in early 2018. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst […]
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost 559,000 television customers between them in the first quarter of 2017, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. That represents a quarterly subscriber reduction of 0.63 per cent, which is the largest loss seen so far. It compares to a loss of 162,000 for
Findings from analyst firm The Diffusion Group suggest that more than half of Cord Cutters cancelled their legacy pay-TV service in the two calendar years of 2015 and 2016. It says that remarkably, one-third of Cord Cutters cancelled service in 2016 alone. According to Michael Greeson, Co-Founder and Principal at The Diffusion Group (TDG), the […]
UK’s BT is set to cut 4,000 jobs following a “challenging” year that has seen its chief executive stripped of his annual bonus amid a 19 per cent fall in profits to £2.4 billion (€2.8bn). The group’s outgoing finance director, Tony Chanmugam, was also stripped of bonuses. The moves follow BT’s accounting scandal in Italy […]
The migration from satellite to IPTV has seen Telefónica’s pay-TV business report a 1.7 per cent decline in the number of global subscribers to 8.2 million in the first quarter of the year. In Spain, the fall has been even greater, with a decline of 3 per cent ending the quarter with 3.616 million subscribers, […]
Last year in June Greece slapped a special tax on pay-TV subscriptions. In essence the tax placed an extra 10 per cent on the existing combined subscription fee plus the VAT already in place. The much-criticised levy (although every tax in Greece gets widespread criticism) has seemingly put a complete halt on pay-TV growth in […]
Movistar+, Telefonica’s IPTV platform, has become the largest TV operator in Spain in terms of revenues – ahead of both Mediaset and Atresmedia. According to the latest figures from the CNMC, Movistar+ revenues were at €1.574 billion at the end of 2016 whereas Mediaset, operator of Tele 5 and Cuatro among others, and Atresmedia, operator […]
Global pay-TV revenues will peak in 2017 at $202 billion (€184bn), according to analysis firm Digital TV Research. However, no rapid decline will take place after 2017 as revenues will still be as high as $200 billion in 2022. The Global Pay-TV Revenue Forecasts report [covering 138 countries] concludes