Telenor Broadcast suffered more client erosion at its Canal Digital pay-TV division, although overall revenues were helped (up 2 per cent) by an increase in subscribers and device sales. DTH subs stood at 865,000 (down 4 per cent, and 900,000 at same period last year). Telenor Broadcast’s Q3 revenues fell back by 2 per cent […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released the first part of the CRTC’s 2016 Communications Monitoring Report showing how the viewing and listening habits of Canadians are transforming the broadcasting industry. Canadians are consuming more audio and video content on digital media and over devices connected to the Internet. Twenty percent of Canadians […]
Richard Frankland, VP Sales EMEA, explains Irdeto’s holistic, 360 degree approach to security with examples from Europe and the US demonstrating an ecosystem approach that provides protection from inception to display, from ‘glass to glass.’ [bitsontherun xwnyBCzb-hLYU43gg]
Content sharing has become the most popular form of piracy. Lucas Catranis, Cyber Services & Investigation, explains how a mixture of technology, human intelligence and industry relationships means they can take down pirate streams even as they play out live events. [bitsontherun fCsc0CpL-hLYU43gg]
Barely two days after reports emerged that such a deal was likely, giant US telco AT&T and Time Warner have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire Time Warner in a stock-and-cash transaction valued at $107.50 per share, valuing the deal at $85.4 billion (€78.5bn). The agreement has been approved unanimously by […]
Amit Wohl, Video Security Product Manager in the Service Provider organisation at Cisco, has suggested the company is pioneering a new approach to piracy prevention, with its Streaming Piracy Prevention service utilising technology to locate illegal redistribution of content on the open Internet and closed pirate networks. In a Cisco blog post, Wohl notes that […]
Bruce Curtin, Technical Solution Manager, manager talks about the security challenge and also the security opportunity presented by the step change to 4K UHD and the new demands on operators from content providers. [bitsontherun wqZontYI-hLYU43gg]
Bloomberg is reporting that media giant Time Warner (TW) is in merger talks with telco AT&T. The telco last year bought pay-TV broadcaster DirecTV, paying $49 billion for the business. The reports say that the discussions are “informal” but Bloomberg says that TW CEO Jeff Bewkes is interested in a sale at the right price. […]
Last week Sky delivered a somewhat ‘light’ Q1 results statement that was much criticised by the market given that many of its usual headline numbers on DTH subscriber growth (or fall) and Churn data was missing. Sky said a week ago that Q1 trading was “slower” although price increases had helped drive revenues to a […]
Over the past few days Multichoice Africa has extended its subscription price cuts across many of its African platforms. Following on from the earlier announcement that covered Kenya, Multichoice has since changed its bundles, sometimes cutting prices or otherwise improving the packages available to subscribers while holding onto the same prices. Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe […]