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. […]
Singapore pay-TV operator StarHub has launched a new online streaming service – StarHub Go – which it says extends pay-TV reach with added flexibility. The service offers a selection of the most popular StarHub TV content delivered on demand, over-the-top, and on any device, enabling customers to access their favourite programmes at their convenience. Customers […]
Moves by Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel to combat the threat of rival OTT service Netflix by cutting its prices to pre-empt its launch in March 2015 have boosted sales and subscriber numbers, but also dented its profits and average revenues per user. Foxtel reported a record 2.8 million subscribers in the year ended June, but […]
Traditional TV providers continue to lose subscribers, with the top 10 shedding over 400,000 subscribers this past quarter alone. While cord-cutting has been acknowledged for some time now, these are worst-ever numbers for the pay-TV providers. According to analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson: “A year ago, the pay-TV sector was shrinking at an annual […]
Findings from consumer market research specialist Horowitz Research’s Multiplatform Content & Services report show that OTT SVoD services remain a complement to, not a replacement for, traditional pay TV: 40 per cent of Internet users have multichannel and an OTT SVoD service, 42 per cent have
Ofcom has intervened after BT customers complained they were paying extra without wanting the service. BT Sport was previously free to BT broadband customers in a minimum term agreement, but on August 1st the company changed its sport offering following the acquisition of Champions League football rights. Its three existing sports channels are now packaged […]
French cable operator Numericable-SFR has removed the Eurosport 1 and 2 channels from its Numericable cable and SFR LaBox fibre services. To watch the Discovery-owned sports network, viewers now need to pay a €25 a month subscription to Canalsat, which isn’t available through SFR. The move follows the rejection of Numericable-SFR’s appeal against the Competition […]
NBC Sports Group and the English Premier League have reached a new six-year agreement by which NBC Sports Group will continue as the exclusive multi-platform media home of the Premier League in the United States through the 2021-22 season. Under the agreement, NBC Sports Group will continue to make all 380 Premier League matches available […]
The latest monthly data from Roy Morgan Research shows that online entertainment streaming service Netflix has hit 8 per cent of Australian homes reaching 1.89 million people 14+ in July. Over 1 in 3 households now have some form of pay or subscription TV, up almost 30 per cent since the start of 2015. According […]