Orange’s Q4 results show the telco has a total of 7.190 million IPTV and satellite customers across its operations, a 10.4 per cent year-on-year increase. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation will be in a range of €11.9 billion to €12.1 billion, a decrease of as much as 2.4 per cent from a year […]
The strength of the US dollar is likely to hurt pay-TV subscription growth this year, according to Brazil’s pay-TV Association (ABTA). Oscar Olivera, the president of ABTA, says that local economic weakness is also hurting growth. Brazil suffered a slowing in demand numbers in January and Olivera said that local pay-TV providers Oi and Claro […]
Press reports say Orange plans to launch an HDMI dongle in France, following trials in the Romanian market. According to Les Echos, Orange will use the device to push its TV content to subscribers of its Sosh low-cost mobile and Open quad-play offerings. The dongle will primarily function as a mini set-top box, enabling users […]
Liberty Global has reported 3.5 million pay-TV subscribers at the end of 2014, with its year-end Horizon base lifted to 914,000 by a record take-up in Germany in the fourth quarter. Virgin Media in the UK now has 2.5 million TiVo customers, adding 583,000 in the course of the year. The company had 15.9 million […]
The worldwide pay-TV market is expected to grow 5 per cent in 2014, surpassing 924.4 million subscribers, according to ABI Research. “IPTV is expected to grow a market leading 14 per cent in 2014, followed by satellite TV platform at 7 per cent. The growth rates of cable and terrestrial TV platforms are expected to
Telefonica’s IPTV platform Movistar TV is upgrading its pay-TV offer with the addition of new channels and HD services. TV channels operated by Viacom such as MTV and Nick Jr are new to Movistar’s TV along with the HD versions of Spanish TV broadcasters like Antena 3 and La Sexta. Movistar plans to increase the […]
Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten has extended its long-term partnership of more than a decade with Formula One Management to broadcast the FIA Formula One World Championship until the end of the 2019 season. The new deal incorporates the final year of Network Ten’s existing agreement in 2015, making the new broadcast deal five years, […]
upc cablecom sae its strongest growth ever in Internet connections in 2014, adding 65,600 new subscriptions across Switzerland. Revenue rose to CHF 1.294 billion over the twelve months of last year – a year-on-year increase of more than 4.6 per cent. More than 1.387 million TV customers in Switzerland used a digital TV product from […]
The Spanish police has broken up a band of pay-TV pirates and arrested three people on charges of breaking the intellectual property by selling illegal set-top-boxes to watch pay-TV in the country. The pirates were selling the STBs online for €150 and delivering them throughout the country. The devices had been manipulated and included illegal […]
The Premier League has concluded the sales process for the seven packages of UK live broadcasting rights for the three seasons 2016/17-2018/19, with existing rights-holders Sky and BT once again emerging successful and the sums reaching new record highs. The seven packages – five of 28 matches and two of 14 matches – totalling 168 […]