Sky Sports has been awarded the rights to the NFL’s Sunday Night Football for the next two years, bringing UK viewers an additional game a week and taking the schedule to more than 100 live matches a season. Sunday Night Football is America’s most watched programme and from week five of the season, the NFL’s […]
AMC Global, the international AMC-branded television network, and BT have revealed a wide array of TV series and movies to premiere on AMC from BT TV with the channel’s launch in the UK on August 28th. From launch, AMC will be the exclusive home of this summer’s most anticipated new series, Fear the Walking Dead, […]
Vodafone Spain has launched a converged offering including sports TV channels aimed at hotels, restaurants and bars. The offer includes a mobile line with unlimited calls and 3GB of data, broadband access at speeds of up to 120 Mbps plus pay-TV with over 80 channels, including the rights to broadcast live football games in public […]
US independent media services firm Cross MediaWorks, has acquired BlackArrow, a specialist in advertising and data solutions for the pay-TV industry. Reaching more than 40 million homes, BlackArrow provides software solutions that help the global pay-TV industry deliver more timely and efficient sales and marketing messages, extend TV services to new platforms, and gain real-time […]
The global premiere on August 24th of Fear the Walking Dead has made US television history, delivering 10.1 million live/same day viewers and becoming the #1 series premiere in US cable television history for total viewers and all key demographics. The episode delivered 6.3 million adults 18-49. In that coveted demographic, AMC now is home […]
BT Sport has secured the rights to Australia home cricket test matches for next five years in a deal costing it around £16 million (€21.87m) a year. This will include the 2017-18 series, where Australia will seek to reclaim the Ashes lost to England in the recently-ended series. That tour it will be the first […]
Portugal ended the second quarter of 2015 with 3.43 million pay-TV subscribers, a growth of 36,000 on the previous quarter (+1.1 per cent) and up 183,000 year-on year (+5.6 per cent). Most of the growth came from
According to Alan Wolk, Senior Analyst with The Diffusion Group (TDG), whilst there was much rending of clothing and gnashing of teeth about the Q2 2015 pay-TV subscriber statistics (along with a dramatic sell-off on Wall Street), a closer look at those numbers reveals a lot less gloom and doom than originally reported, with
Responding to recent functionality enhancements to Netflix’s UI, Sky has unveiled updates to Sky+HD boxes introducing what it describes as some clever new features which make Sky Movies even better. This, the third software update so far this year, forms part of Sky’s continued commitment to innovating the UK’s biggest connected TV platform, Sky+. With […]
In perhaps an indication of North American pay-TV operators seeing a silver lining in the cloud that is the decline of their current subscriber numbers, findings from Strategy Analytics suggest the