Portuguese pay-TV operators Cabovisão, Vodafone Portugal and NOS have signed a reciprocal sport content distribution agreement. The agreement will guarantee customers of the three operators access to sport content already acquired or to be acquired in the future by any of the parts. It also covers distribution of club TV channels. This includes, starting from […]
The most complained-about pay TV provider between January and March of this year was BT with 20 complaints per 100,000 customers compared to 15 in the previous quarter according to an Ofcom report. Complaints about TalkTalk fell from 14 to nine, while complaints about Virgin Media increased slightly and was the same as the industry […]
The Teligen division of Strategy Analytics has released a new report showing significant differences in pay-TV prices both across countries, and between providers in the same country. The study also shows great variation in the structures and underlying technologies of the pay-TV offers, even when benchmarking the most basic offers from each provider. Strategy Analytics […]
Sky has told about studio staff with news and sport that its plans for an automated system controlling robot cameras will see 50 jobs cut. The proposals, told to staff on Thursday, see 46 roles scrapped but 31 created in areas such as “automation direction”. They will be subject to a 45-day consultation and will […]
A total of 413 national TV channels were broadcast in Italy by 110 media groups (67 Italian and 43 international) in June 2016, according to a report by the association of Italian radio and TV broadcasters (Confindustria Radio TV). The figure relates to TV channels on national DTT multiplexes, on the Sky Italia and Mediaset […]
One year after its launch as Movistar TV, Telefónica’s pay-TV platform is set to update its user interface in an attempt to be more dynamic. The update will roll out in September along with the addition of new added value services such as a recommendation engine that draws information from the viewer’s profile. The company has […]
Parks Associates research shows bilingual Spanish-language broadband households in the US are more likely to have pay-TV and OTT video service subscriptions than the average US broadband household. 360 View Update: The research, which analyses a survey of US broadband households where Spanish is spoken daily, reveals that 89 per cent of these households have […]
French business newspaper Les Echos is reporting that the France’s Autorité de la concurrence (Competition Authority) will launch a review of the regulations covering Canal Plus, starting on July 20. The report says that the Authority will deliver its initial thinking in March next year and then issue a formal decision by June 2017. Investment bank […]
Some 43.7 million people now receive TV by satellite, cable or IPTV in France, representing 75 per cent of the country’s population. According to figures released by Mediamétrie in its bi-yearly pay-TV audience study, DTH reception has declined over the last four years to 15.2 million people, while cable is on the rise with 5.6 […]
Sky Italia, Mediaset and RAI accounted for about 90 per cent of the revenues in the Italian TV market in 2015, according to the annual report from Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom). Satellite pay-TV broadcaster Sky Italia is the market leader, with a 32.5 per cent share (-1 per cent y/y), followed by commercial broadcaster and […]