Sky Sports will show over 300 live La Liga matches throughout the current season with a comprehensive Spanish football offering across its platforms. Viewers can watch all matches outside 3pm Saturday blocked hours every week via Sky Sports TV channels, the red button and Sky’s digital TV channel, Sky Sports Xtra, which is available to […]
Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology, a global provider of smart home solutions and the world’s fourth largest set-top box manufacturer, has become a member of the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA). AAPA represents companies involved in the provision of protected audiovisual services, security technology for such services, and the manufacturing of products which facilitate the delivery of […]
According to findings from Parks Associates, around a quarter of pay-TV subscribers in US broadband households made changes to their pay-TV service over the past 12 months, although upgrades were nearly as significant as downgrades.
Responding to the pay-TV football price war, Telefonica is launching a promotion costing €9.95 a month giving access to nearly all its pay-TV services, including premium content. From August 19th until September 30th, current and new subscribers will be able to subscribe to the Premium Extra package with access to over 80 TV channels, including […]
Australian Rules Football will reap a major financial windfall after striking what it describes as a “colossal” new six-year, A$2.5 billion (€1.6bn) broadcast rights agreement. The new deal announced by the Australian Football League (AFL), which will run from 2017 to 2022, will see Channel Seven, Foxtel and Telstra continue as the League’s broadcasters. The […]
The Dubai Court has imposed a fine of Dh50,000 (€12,300) on a distributor of UKTV Abroad packages, an unlicensed and unauthorised IPTV service in the UAE. Pay-TV operator OSN filed a copyright infringement complaint against the service provider, with the Dubai Criminal Investigation Department (CID) subsequently carrying out a raid and subsequently bringing court proceedings […]
Adding its own findings to the growing evidence of cord-cutting besetting US pay-TV providers, Leichtman Research Group has found that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 470,000 net video subscribers in Q2 2015, compared to
Mexico’s regulator (Ifetel) has determined that OTT operators cannot be regulated in the same fashion as ‘conventional’ pay-TV broadcasters. Ifetel specifically looked at Netflix, Claro Video and Cinepolis Click and decided they were not pay-TV providers. The decision came following an objection from Tabasco-based cable operator Alive Telecommunications which had requested that OTT operators be […]
According to the most recent report from SNL Kagan, the inconclusive movement in US multichannel subscriptions took a more decisive direction in the second quarter, producing the largest loss to date amid growing fears of cord-cutting. SNL Kagan estimates the US cable, DBS and telco platforms collectively shed
BT TV and UKTV have announced a new deal to make UKTV’s full portfolio of channels available to BT customers for the first time. From this month, UKTV channels Eden, Good Food and Home, will be available via BT set top boxes, joining Gold, Alibi, Watch, Dave, Really, Yesterday and Drama already on the service. […]