Research from market research and consulting company Parks Associates reveals that 20 per cent of US pay-TV subscribers say they are dissatisfied with their pay-TV service, representing a 100 per cent increase since early 2013. The firm’s report – TV Services: Changing the Channel Package – indicates that only one-third of pay-TV subscribers are very […]
South Africa’s ruling political party, the African National Congress (ANC), has issued a White Paper ahead of its national party conference at the end of June, saying that a new strategy to encourage rival broadcasters to compete with DStv/Multichoice is needed, and that the country must open up the TV subscription TV market. The ANC […]
Karen Bradley, the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, is to refer 21st Century Fox’s bid to acquire the 61 per cent of pay-TV operator Sky it does not already own to Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority. In a formal Intervention Notice, Bradley said that she had grounds for suspecting that, […]
Canada’s publicly traded television service providers as a whole continued to lose a record number of TV subscribers in 2016 but the trends shifted as the cable companies lost considerably fewer subscribers and the IPTV providers saw subscriber growth slow significantly. Research from Ottawa-based research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services shows the big […]
According to a report from analyst firm The Diffusion Group, the proportion of US broadband households not subscribing to a Legacy Pay-TV (LPTV) service has more than doubled in the past five years. In 2011, 9 per cent of the 85 million US broadband households qualified as Cord Nils (literally, ‘zero’ use of TV services […]
According to data from Dataxis for the year ending 2016, Africa pay-TV subscribers stand at approximately 18.7 million subscribers which represent an increase of approximately 2 million subscribers compared to the previous year. Out of the 18.7 million subscribers, 14 million are DTH subscribers and the remaining represent mostly pay DTT with limited cable and […]
Dubai-based pay-TV operator is adding 14 live-streaming channels to its OSN Play ‘catch-up’ system. It takes the total to 32 channels and OSN says they will be more before this year is out. The move is another key ‘added value’ service for OSN, increasingly challenged by the MENA region’s OTT players. Moreover, the channels can […]
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost 937,000 television customers between them in 2016, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index. They collectively account for 88.69 million television customers. So that represents an annual subscriber loss of 1.05 per cent. Yet the number of television subscribers to the top 10 services actually rose […]
Mediaset has appointed Marco Leonardi as the new CEO of its under-performing pay-TV unit, Mediaset Premium. Leonardi, who currently holds the title of head of acquisition and sales rights at Mediaset, will replace Franco Ricci, who is leaving the company. Mediaset said the appointment is “part of its strategy of making the Mediaset Premium offering […]
For the first time ever, the percentage of free or paid streaming video subscribers in the US (68 per cent) has caught up to the number of paid TV subscribers (67 per cent), according to research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The study, The Changing Landscape for Video and Content, also shows