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Asia’s top operators to gain pay-TV market share

Pay-TV subscriptions for the top 65 operators across 17 countries covered in the Asia Pacific Pay-TV Operator Forecasts report from Digital TV Research will increase by nearly 100 million from a collective 438 million in 2015 to 536 million by 2021. Covering 87 platforms, these operators will climb from 81 per cent of Asia Pacific […]

August 17, 2016

Sky to expand into Spain?

The Sunday Telegraph newspaper has reported that pay-TV giant Sky is looking to expand further into Europe, with Spain as a primary target. Sky already owns pay-TV operations in the UK, Italy and Germany. However, if Sky were to enter Spain, it would be the first time that Sky has entered a market where it […]

August 15, 2016By Chris Forrester

Spain: Vodafone offer kicks off football price war

Vodafone Spain’s offer of all National and International football for just €6 a month for subscribing before the end of August (from September at €18) is the latest move in the ongoing battle for subscribers across the country’s pay-TV operators. All three have launched low cost football offers to boost subscriptions. Telefónica’s Movistar is giving […]

August 11, 2016From David Del Valle in Madrid

bobbles.tv targets expat communities

Pay-TV platform bobbles.tv, which delivers TV channels from all over the world has been launched. The service, which can be received throughout Europe via satellite and Internet, is targeting around 14 million people from Asia, Latin America and Africa living and working in Europe. For the launch bobbles.tv will offer 25 Chinese and Indonesian TV […]

August 10, 2016

US pay-TV Q2: 10 leading services lose 663,000 subs

Ten leading pay-TV services in the US lost 663,000 subscribers between them in the second quarter of 2016, according to informitv Multiscreen Index. The second quarter is generally a weak season for television subscriptions but some operators managed to reduce their customer losses. These ten services lost 437,100 television customers in twelve months, which was […]

August 9, 2016

Africa: Pay-TV subs to reach 30m

Africa pay-TV subscribers will reach 30 million in 2021, up from 16 million in 2015, according to the latest data published by research firm Dataxis. Digital satellite pay-TV subscribers for 2021 is expected to arrive at 20 million compared to 8 million for digital terrestrial pay TV subscribers. Dataxis estimates that TV households which stand […]

August 9, 2016

Spain: DTT leads TV market

In contrast to other European countries, which have an average penetration of 27 per cent, DTT is the main TV distribution system in Spain to watch TV. Eighty per cent of Spaniards watch TV through DTT with the remaining 20 per cent through pay-TV platforms (IPTV, cable and satellite). The increasing use of smartphones, tablets […]

August 8, 2016From David Del Valle in Madrid

Pub fined £50k for illegal Sky Sports football

A pub landlady in the UK Midlands city of Birmingham has been fined £50,000 (€58,940) after being caught illegally showing football on Sky Sports, having earlier received a final warning for committing an identical offence. She was also told to pay £24,000 costs for breaching copyright by showing the Premier League games. Sky Sports brought […]

August 5, 2016By Colin Mann

ProSiebenSat.1 Q2 revenue up 15%

German pay-TV broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has reported Q2 revenues of €886 million, up 15 per cent, and EBITDA of €254 million, up 7 per cent. Digital and adjacent revenues grew 43 per cent year-on-year to reach €263 million. HD subscribers on all platforms grew from 5.7 million to 6.7 million in the year to June. ProSiebenSat.1 […]

August 5, 2016

Public Knowledge: ‘Copyright Office STB analysis flawed’

The United States Copyright Office has sent a letter to Congress claiming that the Federal Communications Commission’s set-top box proposal “could interfere with copyright owners’ rights to license their works, and [could] restrict their ability to impose … conditions on the use of those works.” US public interest advocacy group Public Knowledge finds that the […]

August 5, 2016By Colin Mann