Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content, Sky, has suggested that going forward, the pan-European broadcaster will focus increasingly on entertainment, declaring that done properly, the genre could be just as engaging as football, a mainstay of Sky’s UK business and an important component of its German and Italian operations. In a Royal Television Society ‘In conversation […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that 81 per cent of US households have a DVR, get Netflix, or use VoD from a cable or Telco provider — with 30 per cent of households using two of the services, and 13 per cent using all three. The survey also found that 57 per cent of […]
Mumbai-based Dish TV added an impressive 1.045 million net extra subscribers in the 9 months to December 31st. The broadcaster is targeting a net gain of 1.5 million in the full trading year to March 31st, and helped by expected additions to India’s Phase III digital roll-out. Q3 saw 317,000 additional subscribers (same period last […]
Sky has invested £0.3 million (€0.396m) in mobile fan engagement and sports marketing company InCrowd. The investment in the UK-based company follows a series of Sky partnerships with pioneering technology companies in the US, helping to accelerate innovation. InCrowd, formed by the team behind the world’s leading sports data company, Opta, specialises in developing mobile […]
Comcast has posted its best year for traditional TV services in nearly a decade, even though it continues to shed TV subscribers. As the number of traditional TV customers declines across the industry, Comcast is stemming its losses by enticing them with new TV-Internet packages, while keeping TV customers around for longer with the help […]
OSN, the Dubai pay-TV network, thas announced the extension of its partnership with Discovery Communications across the Middle East and North Africa with a new distribution deal that will see the launch of 2 new HD channels exclusively for OSN subscribers, even more hours of new content across Discovery’s existing premium portfolio, as well as […]
A comparison of pay-TV service prices covering 31 of the OECD countries shows significant price variations between countries and providers. According to the report, Pay-TV prices in OECD countries, November 2015, from the Teligen division of Strategy Analytics, there are significant
A television critic has suggested that Sky’s practice of buying up the later seasons of non-UK television programmes that had already proved themselves popular with UK audiences on free-to-air channels is preventing such shows from reaching a substantial audience in the UK. Writing in left-leaning weekly politics, culture, and international affairs magazine New Statesman, James […]
The BBC and Discovery Communications have confirmed a long-term Olympic Games agreement in the UK, building on a 30-year partnership between the two global media organisations. The deal means that the BBC will sub-license (from Discovery) exclusive free-to-air audio-visual and non-exclusive radio rights to the 2022 and 2024 Olympic Games. In turn, Discovery will sub-license […]
SES Platform Services (SES PS), the satellite operator’s Munich-based technical facility, is to lose its Sky Deutschland play-out and uplinking contract. Sky-D is to shift its play-out to its Sky Italia teleport. The news was briefly mentioned by Sky’s Group CFO Andrew Griffith on January 31st during the broadcaster’s Sky half-year results statement. It is […]