Ofcom has published on the volumes of consumer complaints made to Ofcom against the major providers of telecoms and pay-TV services. The latest report covers the three-month period from January to March 2015 (Q1), and reports on the complaints made to 13 providers of fixed line telephone, fixed line broadband, pay monthly mobile and pay-TV […]
More Netflix users in the US are officially cutting the cord than ever before. In a survey of 829 current Netflix subscribers, CutCableToday found that just 67 per cent still have a pay-TV service (cable or satellite), and of those, 9 per cent plan to cancel their pay TV service and another 16 per cent are […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that all TV and multi-platform broadcast rights in Europe for the four Olympic Games in the 2018–2024 period have been awarded to Discovery Communications, the parent company of Eurosport. Discovery chief executive, David Zaslav, told the Guardian that it would negotiate with the BBC and other broadcasters in […]
Further to advanced-television.com’s June 2014 story that John Malone’s international cable operator Liberty Global and cable networks programmer Discovery Communications were seeking to take a 49 per cent stake in Formula One Group from private equity player CVC Capital Partners, the UK’s Sunday Times is reporting that Liberty Global and Sky a considering a £4.5 […]
Pay-TV operators purchased $15.3 billion worth of set-top boxes (STBs) in 2014, down from $15.9 billion in 2013. This decline represents the first contraction in the market since 2002, according analysis and insight firm IHS. Shipments of pay-TV STBs grew slightly in 2014 to 204.7 million units, an increase of just under 1 per cent […]
The launch of the first non-native subscription online video service in the Middle East heralds a new phase in the evolution of the premium OTT video market in the region, according to global technology research and advisory firm Ovum. Traditional cultural barriers that previously made outside companies hesitant about launching in the region, the core […]
Brian Sullivan, who served for the past five years as the CEO of Sky Deutschland, will join 21st Century Fox in a senior capacity as President of Digital for Fox Networks Group (FNG), a new role within the Company. Sullivan will be based in Los Angeles and begin his duties on July 27th. As President […]
Dubai-based pay-TV operator OSN has issued a strong criticism of certain Indian broadcasters who are active in the Gulf states selling illegal or grey market boxes to expats. Specifically, OSN says they are suffering revenue losses as Gulf residents buy subscriptions to Indian transmissions, in particular for sport which OSN has also contracted to carry. […]
According to stock analysis firm Trefis, with the recent introduction of Dish Network‘s Sling TV and HBO’s HBO NOW service, as well as the continued success of Netflix, the threat of cord cutting to US pay-TV companies is as high as it has ever been, with reports suggesting that Q1 2015 saw the industry lose […]
Russia’s largest cellular phone operator MTS (Mobile TeleSystems) is reportedly about to enter the pay-TV market. Russian news site Comnews.Ru suggests that the business will extend the existing service based in and around Moscow and which had a ‘soft’ launch last November, and the Russian ‘far East’, to a nationwide DTH service. Few doubt that […]