The political and economic problems in the Ukraine has resulted in a loss of some 250,000 pay-TV subscribers, according to a study from cable operator Volia. Events in the Russian-occupied Crimea region and Eastern portions of the country have impacted the overall numbers. Voila says it is compensating for the loss by focusing on building […]
Pay-TV revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa will reach $6.22 billion in 2020, up from $3.54 billion in 2014 and $1.92 billion in 2010, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. Excluding South Africa, pay-TV revenues will climb
Sky is to launch Fortitude, its highly anticipated new drama, on January 29th to 20 million customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. The series is the first Sky original programme to première simultaneously across all five markets since Sky created the entertainment company late last year. In addition to its launch on […]
Deloitte forecasts SVoD will generate about £5 billion (€6.4bn) globally this year, which is only around 3 per cent of the £168 billion pay-TV market. SV0D should not be considered solely as a competitor to pay-TV but more as a
Sky Sports will dedicate an entire channel to the ICC Cricket World Cup, from the first to the last day of the biggest one-day event in the international cricket calendar. For six weeks, Sky Sports 2 will become ‘Sky Sports World Cup’, giving viewers over 1,000 hours of round the clock cricket coverage, including all […]
Leading pay-TV services around the world increased their subscriber numbers by just 1 per cent in the third quarter of 2014, as reported in the January issue of the informitv Multiscreen Index. The 100 services in the index recorded total subscriber gains of 3.52 million in the three months to the end of September but […]
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A pub in Dundee is risking being fined for the illegal showing of live English Premier League football by using a foreign decoder. The Cask and Cork has also banned staff from Sky, BT, the Premier League and the Football Association from entering its premises and put signs on its doors advising employees of the […]
Sky Sports has extended its broadcast partnership with the England & Wales Cricket Board until 2019, increasing its commitment to English cricket for a further two years. The agreement offers cricket fans unprecedented coverage of England home fixtures, county matches, women’s and age grade cricket, and will take the existing partnership into its 14th year. […]
DirecTV used International CES in Las Vegas to confirm that it will have two satellites serving its 4K needs across the USA. Philip Goswitz, an SVP at DirecTV, added that one recently-launched satellite is now operational and the other is going up in May, he said. Goswitz said that the industry needed common standards, and […]