Telefonica’s Movistar TV has managed to triple the number of subscribers to 2.1 million at the end of the first quarter of the year, It gained 255,000 pay-TV subs to March against 58,000 a year earlier. Its convergence offer Movistar Fusion now has 3.9 million subs, up 21 per cent year-on-year, with 50 per cent […]
French media group Vivendi has announced it is to offer €495 million for a controlling stake in pay-TV operator Canal Plus (Société d’Edition de Canal Plus). Vivendi already owns around 48.5 per cent of the company, and its supervisory board has approved a public tender offer of €7.60 per share. It says it is making […]
Satellite TV [DTH or DBS] revenues will overtake total cable TV revenues in 2015, according to Digital TV Research. Covering 138 countries, the Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts report estimates that satellite TV accounted for 44 per cent of the total in 2014, rising to 46 per cent by 2020. However, cable TV revenues
Deutsche Telekom has reported a quarterly profit helped by its US operations and the weak euro. EBITDA excluding special items rose to €4.57 billion. Profit was helped by €175 million from an out-of-court settlement with Liberty Global’s German unit Unitymedia over the acquisition of KabelBW. Europe’s largest telco by revenue said it still expected 2015 […]
Ofcom has pubished data on the volumes of consumer complaints made against major providers of telecoms and pay-TV services. The reports cover the nine months from
A vast majority of Americans would prefer to assemble their own pay TV channels rather than subscribe to packages that include dozens or hundreds of networks, according to the findings of a new Reuters/Ipsos poll which challenges traditional television distribution. Seventy-seven per cent of US adults said
The informitv Multiscreen Index shows that the top 10 pay-TV services in the US collectively gained 54,800 digital television subscribers in the first quarter of 2015. With all the results from the top 10 services that report numbers now in, the combined subscriber counts show an improvement on the loss of 232,100 over the previous […]
Dish Network reported revenue totaling $3.7 billion for the quarter ending March 31st, compared to $3.6 billion (€3.3bn) for the corresponding period in 2014. Net income attributable to DISH Network totaled $351 million for the quarter, compared to $176 million from the year-ago quarter. The US satellite broadcaster activated approximately 554,000 gross new pay-TV subscribers […]
TiVo – which recently acquired certain assets of outlawed and bankrupt OTA service Aereo – has released the findings of an in-depth survey of Over The Air (OTA) TV consumers revealing that a materially higher percentage of cord cutters are coming from former satellite TV service subscribers. “The data we’ve collected shows a clear trend […]
Virgin Media’s broadband subscriber numbers have increased from 4,625,800 in the previous quarter, to 4,969,700 in the first quarter of this year (40,200 of which are still on ADSL rather than cable0 – up 7 per cent. Of those 4.9 million net subscribers, Liberty-owned Virgin reports that 36 per cent are on 100Mbps or faster […]