Live streaming TV platform TVPlayer has completed a £5 million (€5.75m) investment round led by global media content company A+E Networks. TVPlayer is a freemium over-the-top TV service in the UK which offers all of the country’s major free to air channels, as well as a pay-TV bundle of 30+ premium channels for £4.99 per […]
Vodafone is launching a new convergent package branded ‘Vodafone One Total,’ with fixed and mobile telephony (3 mobile lines), broadband and all the 120 TV channels and football. The package will cost from €112 with FTTH distribution and up to 50 Megabytes (€120 with 300 Megabytes). The convergent offer is marketed through two types of […]
Beleaguered French pay-TV operator Canal+ is extending its reach with the agreement of a carriage deal that sees a range of its channels now included in the Freebox Revolution offering from multiplay operator Iliad. Free has launched a new package: Freebox Revolution with TV by Canal Panorama and including access to the myCanal app. Thanks […]
Not for the first time there are market rumours that 21st Century Fox is about to buy Sky and its trio of European pay-TV operations. This time it is UK tabloid The Daily Mail that is reporting the imminent move, and suggesting that James Murdoch is about to take advantage of Sky’s depressed share price […]
Overall satisfaction with alternative video services such as streaming and transactional-based OTT offerings is considerably higher than it is with traditional pay television service, spurring an increase in cord-cutting from 2015, according to three studies from marketing information services firm J.D. Power.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking aimed at fostering consumer choice and access to diverse programming on television. The proposed rules may prohibit the use of certain clauses in pay-TV programming distribution contracts that impede carriage of independent and diverse programming. Specifically, the proposed rules would prevent pay-TV providers […]
The top 100 operators accounted for three-quarters of the world’s pay TV subscribers by end-2015, with this proportion not expected to change over the next five years. The top 10 operators took 42 per cent by end-2015, according to the Global Pay TV Operator Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at […]
Ofcom has published its latest data on the volume of consumer complaints it received against the major providers of telecoms and pay-TV services. The report covers the three-month period from April to June 2016 (Q2), and includes complaints made about providers of home broadband, pay monthly mobile and pay-TV services. The total volume of telecoms […]
Steve Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal, has declared television still a great business, which will continue to be so, despite the changing consumption habits of the millennial generation. Speaking during an opening Keynote at the RTS London Conference, Burke stressed the importance of positioning companies in the TV industry to maximise their existing infrastructure while preparing […]
Rok Studios, the Nigerian film studio, is set to launch a new Nollywood channel on Sky TV, on September 29th. The channel will air thousands of hours of Rok Studios-produced TV shows and movies, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will be available to all Sky subscribers on channel 344. The free-to-view […]