With opportunities to access TV content becoming almost infinite – dozens of services now offer anywhere/anytime access – viewers’ reasons for buying and using digital media players are shifting. According to GfK’s The Home Technology Monitor, 64 per cent of digital media player owners report that at least one of their players is connected to […]
Pay-TV penetration is increasingly growing in Spain with 5.75 million homes subscribing to a service at the end of the first quarter, up 200,000 against the previous quarter. The Latest figures from Spain’s National Authority for Markets and Competition (CNMC) reveal that 81.2 per cent of the households are receiving it through a convergent package. […]
Sky’s Group CEO Jeremy Darroch has said that while sport remains a key part of its broadcast portfolio, the content rights aren’t as important as they once were. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference in Barcelona, Darroch said: “Sport is very important, obviously football is very important, but relatively, every day it is less […]
In a move that it says creates a TV Anywhere home for performance motoring and motorsport, Motorsport Network has acquired Motors TV, consolidating the world’s largest automotive and motorsport digital technology business with a global broadcast operation. The acquisition of the broadcaster that reaches more than 30 million homes with 130 rights agreements and 700 […]
The UK’s smaller broadband providers are ahead of BT, Sky, Virgin Media and TalkTalk when it comes to customer service, a study has found. Cable.co.uk’s customer satisfaction study found that customers of SSE, which only entered the broadband market in 2014, were the happiest with their provider’s customer service. SSE, best known as one of […]
The US multichannel segment produced a drop in third quarter video customers that was slightly worse year-over-year (YOY), according to analyst firm SNL Kagan. SNL Kagan estimates the combined cable, Direct-broadcast-satellite (DBS) and telco sectors lost 430,000 video customers during the period. DBS ended in positive territory, but telco again weighed heavily on the multichannel […]
Last week it was announced that two giant Indian pay-TV broadcasters, Dish TV and Videocon d2h will merge and in the process create a broadcasting behemoth of some 27.6 million subscribers, and a 16 per cent share of the market. The merged business will be the second-largest pay-TV broadcaster in the world (after DirecTV). The […]
The repeated rumours that India’s Videocon d2h pay-TV operation was planning a merger were true. Videocon d2h will “amalgamate” with Essel Group’s Dish TV. A statement says that “the board of directors of both the companies have approved a scheme of arrangement for the amalgamation of Videocon d2h into Dish TV and the execution of […]
The 10 leading pay-TV services in the US lost 73,000 subscribers between them in the third quarter of 2016. It could have been more but DISH Network changed the way it calculates commercial customers, turning a net subscriber loss into an apparent gain. “Mergers and acquisitions complicate direct comparisons but the overall decline was less […]
Sky is planning to close 60 of its worst-performing stores, putting some 170 jobs at risk. The pay-TV broadcaster has a 260 Sky stores across the UK, providing a high-street presence to promote its range of services. Sky is proposing to close 23 per cent of its retail stores permanently, focusing on the ones which […]